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Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here
hhg writes "People of the world, rejoice! At last, the long awaited Mozilla 1.0 is released, and has emerged on the ftp.mozilla.org ftp-server. Let the release parties loose!" And there's even an Ann Arbor party now ;) Congratulations
to all the developers that contributed to the mighty lizard. And bahtama writes "The latest IE gopher hole patch is out! :) ... Check the release notes and then grab it from here."
Now that they have hit 1.0 are versions
without talkback going to be availible.
Have they or will they remove debug information?
The pacakage is still ~10megs for windows. I was
hoping to see some reduction for 1.0 since I
still use a lowly 56K Modem.
The Start Guide is pretty cool too. Was this around in any form before, or is this completely new?
If there was a "-1 Not Funny", that'd be my most used mod.
However it still has a few problems. from Klassy.com
1. Image alignment. Seems to not support the Align=AbsMiddle property of an image tag.
2. Lacks support for IE style layers. Its too much to expect web site devlopers to use more then one layer type. Its time to bite the bullet and support the MS style.
These are the only real problems I can find after a breif test. Overall looking very good (other then the Netscape 4 interface).
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Oh it all starts out nice "we need a prettier splashscreen, here I made one check it out." Then the accusations of satanism and communism begin (seriously). [to view the links you'll have to copy the link location into the address bar. Bugzilla doesn't accept direct links from slashdot]
Long story short, they can't change the splashscreen because of the legal wrangling necessary. But ANYONE can change the splashscreen to anything by putting at .bmp file named mozilla.bmp in their /mozilla directory.
Personally I think the best ones are here, and no it's not listed on the big list of splashscreens given before.
IE is fabulous in Windows until you have a problem. Then you're pretty much sunk. I've recently encountered two IE bugs that have gone unfixed and they are pretty much showstoppers for me. The first (on my home machine)... IE would often not display images--there were a variety of complex temporary fixes, but I couldn't get it to work. Most problematic: to fix my IE I had to reinstall the OS. This is the largest problem with it's integration Uninstall/Revert to previous version wouldn't work because it broke my MS Outlook!
More recently, I have come across a bug that prevents IE from saving a photo as anything, but a BMP when the cache gets full (or something). This is a problem at work because I use IE to browse web accessible database of large image files.
For both CPU's I had to switch to Moz. Thankfully, it was there when I needed it. IE is still a pleasure to use... but only when it works.
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
I can put one together myself, but I'm not certian what the best (most easily understood) directory structure would be... Perhaps something like this:
- Root
- Linux
- Suse
- Redhat
- ...
- BSD
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- ...
- Windows
- Source
- DOCS
I'd like to have something burnable by next Wednesday for the Ann Arbor Destroyed by Mozilla party...-Adam
June 5th 2002 - Mozilla 1.0 Released
Roughly, about 4.5 years.
I would try it, except for three things;
1)K-Meleon has never crashed on me, even with 100 windows open. I don't think I can go back to a web browser which ever crashes. It's just too inconvenient to lose those 100 windows.
2)I enjoy coding under dos(in fact, despite the fact that dos is quite dead, and real-mode hardware coding is not paticularly useful anymore, I'm working on an RPG for dos right now), and the dos emulator under w2k is less than stellar. For example, they don't emulate the latest version of EMS.
3)I have achieved remarkable stability and speed under 98, and the thought of spending a couple hundred dollars for 2k just so I can run Internet Explorer without crashing the shell doesn't really appeal to me.
If I had cable and therefore needed security(patched security.....), I'd buy it in a heartbeat -- probably before I went to subscribe to cable. As it stands however, there isn't really any reason to put Windows on a standalone PC.
It's been a long time.
Tried to install spellchk.xpi from netscape 7, didnt work.
From your link...
While Gates has surpassed the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Fords in total dollars given to charity, philanthropic experts say comparisons to givers from the Gilded Age may be unfair.
"Yes, it's more money than anyone has ever put into a foundation," Englehardt said. "Is it a larger percentage of his worth? Probably not." One of the things that makes comparisons to the Carnegies and Rockefellers difficult, explained Englehardt, is that they gave before the income tax, and thus tax deductions, was created.
"In real dollars, it's more than they gave. Relative to what it can do, it's probably smaller than what the Carnegies' or Rockefellers' money could do."
Ellen Lagamenn, a New York University history professor and expert on philanthropy, said comparisons between Gates and the late greats are premature.
"I don't think these comparisons at the moment are very accurate or apt because Bill Gates is at the beginning of his philanthropic life," she said. "We have a whole record for Carnegie and Rockefeller. I think the issue is what Bill Gates is doing and how sensibly he is doing it. It seems to me he is heading in the right direction."
While benefactors such as Carnegie, Mellon and Rockefeller represented the burgeoning wealth arising from oil, steel and railroads, those of the late 20th Century are bearing gifts from the revolutionary age of information technology. And, like Rockefeller, Gates stands accused of being a monopolist.
Gates' $750 million gift to the Global Fund for Children's Vaccines came less than three weeks after United States District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft used its monopoly power to thwart competition. The ruling was seen as a threat to Microsoft stock, but share prices rebounded after Jackson appointed a federal judge to mediate between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors.
In a percentage of total wealth, it's not the same.
Also, many of the "generous" givers - i.e. Standard Oil (Rockafeller) gave very generously to help cover up their image of anti-consumer/anti-competitive greed. So, from that angle, BG fits right in.
Go do some research - most of these scumbags only give to help "reinvent" their image.
Gates may give, but look at the actions of the firm he ran. If you think that'll help re-invigorate his image with me, you been smoking somthing...
So, the origional poster was right! "Bzzzt - you win a years supply of toilet paper..."
Cheers!
Who is the user at madchat who is hosting those pictures? I can't find contact info.
And you want hot chicks? Hand hot chicks a copy of the Unix Administration Handbook, and make yourself avaliable to answer questions. It worked on me.
- Ceren E.,
that daemonette, who just wants to see the photographer's credits BACK on those pictures.