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Microsoft ignores standards, goes off in their own direction.

Actually... It's the web standards community that gave Microsoft the green light to go off in their own direction (and hoping other browsers will do the same).

IE8's new scheme and those supporting it are being met with an equal level of criticism.

Yeah, if you're a web designer, it's best you read the stuff that's flying around out there. It's an pretty big and important change being proposed for web development standards.

Cheers,
Fozzy

I'd prefer to see a toolkit that provides unobtrusive JavaScript. Basically, you'd tag (with a specific class) the HTML elements that you'd want to act as UI widgets. Then include the JavaScript file, and the JavaScript file does all the work. This provides graceful degradation -- if they don't have JavaScript, they just get the original HTML. And it lets you use all your standard HTML tools, so your designers can still handle all the look and feel, without having to deal with anything besides HTML and CSS.

In practice with my domains, I find that the registrars only check the email address when they do their whois checkups.
Therefore, I recommend registering with a random name, make up a company name)... & get a PMB if privacy is at all important to you.

Use an alternate email address just for your domains, & check once a month.

Gmail? Everything can be used flawlessly with JS desactivated
Yahoo? sorry, don't have a Yahoo Mail account, the website works flawlessly though
Hotmail? the inbox can be reached, even though trash and other folders can't, you need to copy/paste parts of the JS to actually reach the mails themselves but it can be done

That's one unknown, one useable with some trouble and one fully useable. Your forum, on the other hand, is fully unusable, it's as bad as MSHTML websites with browser check on front page.

On the bookmarking issue, there is a slight difference between bookmarking and hotlinking, bookmarking allows you to find informations of days gone by that you found interresting, and smart people designing smart AJAX webapps use permalinks whenever it's possible, because not being able to bookmark a page/thread/post/information is one of the most annoying and retarded things one can find.

Wanna see one of the most interresting AJAX applications i've seen to date? Adactio Elsewhere, and guess what? it's fully browseable without JS activated, and even without both JS and CSS.

BTW, as a final note, I didn't say anything about "legacy" computers, I talked about legacy browsers, aka Lynx/Links, old IEs and NS (2-4), operas 6 and below, ...

I hate to feed the trolls but criminy...

can only be useful in the context of searching for and downloading hardcore or violent pornography

The emphasis is in the original post and it's an utterly ridiculous claim. Trust me, these fantastic features are every bit as useful and functional for downloading and cataloging even low-key, family-friendly porn that has nothing to do with whips, chains, or farm animals in leather pants.

Besides which, your cheap attempt to inject a little extra hype carries a distinct tone of shrill hysteria, which detracts from any attempt at a more reasoned argument. Your attempt to use one narrow aspect of the whole broad, rich spectrum of glorious pornography is misleading enough that it probably has its own latin name.

I guess it also goes without saying that the uses for tabbed browsing are limited only by the imagination and intelligence of the person who browses.

Consequently, your options may be severely limited. Let me help you get started.

• The glorious power of tabbed browsing:
• Allows you to open up every category of the Chadwick's Catalog at once
• You can do a Google search for "Moral Purity" and open each result in its own tab
• Each article on the American Family Association's Website can be opened in its own tab. You can read the current article while the others load.
• You don't have to use Firefox's handy extensions on pictures of porn. Because Satan and his Mozillian Minions made them available through the GPL for free, you can use them to collect and trade pictures of Jesus or even pictures of beautiful cathedrals, without ever worrying that your licensing fee will be used to fund sex-correction surgery for a 16-year old Taiwanese lady-boy.
• If you have Bible questions, you can open a tab for each answer, drastically reducing the amount of time it takes to hide those words in your heart.
• Tabbed browsing is so useful that you can go to the Anti-Porn Guy's website and open each of his informative links in its own window to find others who will help you with your crusade against tabbed browsing.

To sum up: tabbed browsing is your friend. Whether you are cruising www.hotasiansluts.com or www.jesus.com, tabbed browsing can make your internet experience faster, easier, and better.

The Dalai Llama
...tab for the children...

P.S. - I gather that your tirade against tabbed browsing is a recurring theme. Feel free to bookmark this post and refer to it as needed.