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It now competes head to head in performance and features, and offers an alternative with improved privacy.

The improved privacy is bullshit. WebExtensions breaks a large number of privacy plugins that blocked fingerprinting (Stop Fingerprinting), stopped redirects (NoRedirect), provided control over cross-site requests (RequestPolicy Continued), self-destructed cookies, super-cookie safeguards (BetterPrivacy), and these won't be ported. David Teller of the Mozilla Foundation has stated "some of our priorities with WebExtensions are - improving privacy. ..." Want to guess how he responded when he was asked how these privacy enhancing addons will be reintroduced to FF57? He went silent.

Then there is the Mozilla Cliqz partnership and the October experiment. "In August 2016, Mozilla ... made a strategic investment in Cliqz. Cliqz plans to eventually monetize the software through a program known as Cliqz Offers, which will deliver sponsored offers to users based on their interests and browsing history." "Mozilla is experimenting with including the Cliqz plug-in by default in its open source Firefox browser." Decide for yourself whether or not any of this is in the interest of privacy. Mozilla is drowning in its own bullshit.

There's an application you have for "display a news article". It's a browser running HTML with no scripting enabled.

Without scripting, how does the user navigate through a photo gallery attached to a news article? Or did you mean reload the entire page when the user follows the "Next Photo" or "Previous Photo" link?

Something like this?

Their chances of winning against google for this are easily zero. Telling you right now, there is no antitrust or monopoly with youtube. Why? Anyone can upload videos to all sorts of sites. There is competition, and they don't have to change anything involving the API. They set rules, MS isn't following them.

Or, MS could use that, you know, HTML5 thing - which youtube is fully capable of, is officially documented, and well - basically, exists. So remind me where the problem is? Why, it's almost like adding a query to the end of a video link would solve the issue. My, that must be hard for MS to implement. http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html5/tutorials/how-to-view-html5-videos-on-youtube.html#fbid=CrVosNh7OjW

MS has used operating system lock-ins, and it goes further with RT. Just wait till courts get around to the locked bootloader issue. You do know that they day they do is the official MS death knell, right?

"Accesskey" is the magic attribute!

That said, the example I found did not work in Firefox. When I hit "ALT + e", the caret did not move to the box in the example. Instead it opened the edit menu. This was the case no matter what part of firefox had focus. ..Oh wait, I had to hit "ALT + SHIFT + E" because the access key appears to be case sensitive. Then I hit "ALT + SHIFT + P" to move to the "Phone" field and Windows Media Player popped up. I guess in Firefox guess the GUI takes priority over the page for access keys.

I tried the same page in Chrome and the access key was *not* case sensitive and "ALT + E" worked just fine. IE7? Works as good as Chrome.

Conclusion? A good idea in theory, but the browser support, at least in Firefox, is very half assed.

Right. You don't use a button. You write the markup code yourself.

It's pretty easy.

I also started with HTML, then began messing around with event handlers (thanks to Joe Burns at HTML Goodies). I eventually wrote my own basic Checkers game in JavaScript, which caught the attention of the programming instructor in my high school. He invited me to his Programming III class, which was C++, skipping two years of BASIC (I still don't know how to program in BASIC). While taking the C++ class, I started teaching myself Perl and had my first introduction to Visual Basic in a marine biology class (oddly enough) putting together an ecosystem simulation in Excel with VBA. Then came PHP, Java, Python, shell scripting, ...

For immediately visible results, I recommend an interpreted language. I know I'm biased, but I think JavaScript is a good introduction: loops, conditionals, recursion, OOP (to a degree)... Furthermore, you don't have to learn a GUI toolkit (although I guess you could equate the DOM with this). Best of all, it's platform-agnostic.

For a book, I learned C++ with Deitel & Deitel. I leafed through a D&D JavScript book shortly after that class and I noticed all the examples and assignments in the beginning of the book were identical (they mostly just replaced cout << with document.write()).

Your blog doesn't work without javascript. HTH

You really need to learn how to create a link.

The best part is that they could have, with more ease than using Flash, used a Javascript mouse-over and gotten the exact same functionality.

so as Caltech. BTW htmlgoodies.com has good html href help too.

As a PBS here is how you too can learn to make clickable urls.

print "<

\n";

My theory is that either 1) the PhDs are being stifled by upper management, 2) the PhDs aren't really as smart as they're meant to be, or 3) Google has something absolutely massive just around the corner... Take your bets, gentlemen.

My bet: 2.

Education isn't everything, and having a PhD doesn't prove much. Joe Burns has a PhD, but I've yet to see an HTML tutorial site that makes more mistakes then his.

Read this to answer your subscription question. And learn HTML and post comments as HTML Formatted to get purdy links in your comments.

It amazes me how ignorant and arrogant some slashdot readers are. Seriously, do you really think that she's going to want to learn HTML for her first website? I did. Well, sort of. I started with basic text-formatting HTML at 12 and by 13 and 14 worked up to basic webpages and framesets. By 15 I was up to tables. What I'm saying is, don't underestimate the girl. If I could have found an easy-to-understand tutorial on HTML, I would have used it for my first page (And by easy-to-understand, I mean easy to understand for someone with a college reading level). But I didn't find that until I was 14. So I had to make due. But this girl, she doesn't necessarily have to. With sites like HTML Goodies, she doesn't have to resort to an editor if she really wants to learn to code. For the record, I started with the gURLpages Basic Editor, moved up to the gURLpages advanced editor, then the angelfire advanced editor, and finally notepad. I do use Word or Geocities Pagebuilder if I'm in a hurry or feeling lazy though. But anyway, give this kid some credit.

I'll probably get some negative karma for this one but...

Why don't those live journal users learn some simple HTML and get some free space. Yahoo's (geocities) service is somewhat decent. It's not like HTML is hard to learn. Geeze. I learned it in an hour.

Hell, places like Yahoo even have a page builder for you *shudders*, though I really don't like them. If you build your own place for a journal, it's more customizable. Live Journal users aren't really going to need to post anything else besides some images and htm(l) files, which is about all you can do with yahoo's free service. So what, they'd have to spend some extra time writing in the code, but what they can do with the code will beat what they can do with livejournal.

Ever notice how Slashdot stories often have far too many links? Since the front page doesn't get the little [slashot.org]-style URL warnings, I'm always afraid of being linked to a certain .cx site or a disturbing picture of a girl... spewing.... something... This article was pretty good, though. it didn't link to easy-to-find pages like Google, Yahoo, IBM, Microsoft, etc.

Oh well, Slashdot, you are my friend!

Could you please learn how to write a Hypertext Link!

HTML Guardian does not use Java. It uses JavaScript. There is a difference.

HTML Guardian is not windows only. Their example page works fine in my Mozilla web browser under Linux.

Their system is not as secure as they might lead you to believe. Everything you need to interpret the page and steal the contents is given to you. You just have to run it through the JavaScript program (which is also given to you). It will prevent most users from copying stuff, but it wouldn't stop me if I wanted to.

Spam harvesters probably can't interpret javascript, but it won't be too long before one can or at least knows about this specific program. Then its spam heaven for your email address.

My contact form doesn't send the email address, an obfuscated email address, or even and encrypted email address. It just sends an alias of your choosing.

You know, if you really wanted to, you could just spend the next 2-3 hours and learn html.
When there are 8-year-old kids who can pick it up at summer camp over the course of 3 days, you should be able to handle it.

A place to start: HtmlGoodies

Yes, of course they accounted for that

1. Learn HTML

2. Post stuff others want to read

3. Read the faq.

Here's a listing of features that IE supports but that Netscape doesn't. http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/ie.html