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SlashNET Forum With Jamie Zawinski

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the as-close-as-irc-allows dept.

SlashNET is hosting a forum with Jamie Zawinski of Netscape, Mozilla, and XEmacs fame. It will take place at 5:00 PM EST (22:00 GMT) on Feb. 26, which is this Saturday, in #forum. If you'd like to submit a question for jwz [?] early, you can do so at the questions page. With all the projects that he has touched, this looks to be an interesting and informative time.

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  1. NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEWS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    THIS IS NOT A SLASHDOT INTERVIEW. DO NOT POST YOUR QUESTIONS IN THIS FORUM BECAUSE "JWZ" WILL NEVER SEE THEM. SEE THE LINK AT THE TOP FOR A PLACE TO POST THEM. THIS STORY WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN IRC CHAT. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO POST YOUR DUMB QUESTIONS HERE. GOTTA NIP THIS THING IN THE BUD!

  2. Hacks... by pb · · Score: 3

    What's your favorite hack, and which of your hacks are you the most proud of?

    Everyone knows about xdaliclock ("morphing before morphing was cool"), and lately xscreensaver has gotten pretty decent too... (surpassing xlock in the number of supported nifty screensavers) One of my favorites is probably dadadodo, ("the Katz generator", for me... :) but it could use some work. (maybe I'll work on it someday)

    Also, how's the nightclub stuff going? A welcome break from the fast-paced world of netscape development and net.stardom?
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  3. Why not a slashdot interview? by CaseyB · · Score: 3
    Why is this being done as a chat forum? I think that the slashdot interview format is much better for both participants. The slashdot community can frame some intelligent questions and moderate them to reflect the issues that we're most interested in, and Jamie can take time to respond intelligently to them.

    Realtime chat is better used for a social event, not a forum for learning something.

  4. Re:jwz? by Sloppy · · Score: 3

    Sheesh, this guy just doesn't get it. If those particular browsers do something stupid, is that really a reason to cripple your web page?

    What an ass. I'm not stuck in the 70s, I'm stuck in the 200x's and the fastest internet connection that I can get for less than $200 per month is a 56k modem. AWeb blows the doors off of Netscape, MSIE, and Lynx all combined, but I still get pissed that I have to load images sometimes just to read something.

    So I load the images, and what do I find? The images are just text! He's taken text and turned it into pictures! This is the epitome of the flash-over-subtance shockwave-using give-me-a-WYSIWYG-HTML-editor anti-technology point-missing clueless [censored] [censored] web-novice. That this guy has been involved with the Netscape/Mozilla stuff, explains a lot. It explains why mainstream web browsers have remained virtually unchanged and unimproved since 1994: because people like this have been guiding them.

    [Lots of other indignant stuff deleted. I can just barely resist flaming this fuckhead to hell and back.] *vent* *vent*


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  5. CORRECT DATE: the 26th by turg · · Score: 3
    According to the announcement on SlashNet, it's on the 26th, and seeing as the 19th has already passed, I'll betting that's the correct one.

    Of course the /. story'll probably be corrected by the time I post this and it'll be moderated "redundant" but, hey, at least I tried to help my fellow slashdotters.

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  6. This isn't Ask Slashdot! by blogan · · Score: 5

    Reading through the comments, I notice two types of comments. Those complaining about the wrong date, and those asking questions. This isn't Ask Slashdot! If you have a question, then follow the link and ask. I be there will be people saying in a few days, "Where the hell is the answers from JWZ?"