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Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About
asa writes: "Today mozilla.org released Mozilla 1.1 Beta. New to this release are full-screen mode for Linux, BiDi Hebrew improvements, Arabic shaping improvements for Linux, and significant improvements to Venkman, the best cross-platform JavaScript debugger on the planet. Binaries and release notes available at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/. You can read more about this release at mozilla.org and mozillazine.org and if you want to see how this release fits into the overall 1.1 development cycle there's a pretty picture available at the Mozilla Development Roadmap."
"Mozlla 1.1 Beta Out And About"
Hey, it's Mozlla, the next big thing in the browser war! Sheesh, doesn't anyone check their stories anymore? ;)
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
Of course, if you used Mozilla you could disable all of that stuff. However, this is just a JPEG, and is thus junk-free even in IE.
:-)
Next time actually follow the link!
Parent deserves another "+1" funny", just for managing to write a troll that someone moderated up as interesting.
I was fooling around with a fresh download of MSIE 5.2.1 on Mac OS X earlier today. The download was 7.2 MB compressed and I belive the final install took up a little over 11 MB. I didn't have time to see what the breakdown was. As I recall, version 5.1.5 for Mac OS 9 is a bit smaller, about a 5.5 MB download and 9 MB installed. Though 5.1 has fewer features and less help/readme fluff.
MSIE + Outlook Express for Solaris and HP/UX is well over 20 MB compressed (www.microsoft.com/unix).
It's hard to tell how much space MSIE takes up on Win32 given that it relies on libraries and bindings built into the OS and windowing system.
That said, I think mozilla's current size isn't too bad. I'd much rather see performance improvements, especially for older machines and the latest crop of tiny all-in-one machines. (Such as those VIA Mini-ITX boxes... WinChip-like performance, but really small/quiet/cool). RAM usage could use some trimming as well.
When will Slashdot editors USE their fucking spell-checkers?
MOZLLA? Slashdot does 6 or 8 stories a day. About one per editor. I used to edit 80 stories a day for a news site.
Hey! I said that they were from the 1.1 alpha release notes! I posted them for the people moving from 1.0 to 1.1beta! (like me) Are the moderators so fickle that they'll mod a post down from +4 to -1 without reading it?
Might be modded as flamebait but I thought it was rather humorous.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
If Slashdot readers put in half the effort of bitching into making a spell-checking feature for Slashcode they'd have the problems dealt with by now.
Quite possibly true, which leads me to the following intriguing hypothosis:
(programmer && bitching) == NULL
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Otherwise you would know: there's not a single posting by some slashdot "editor" which does not have typing, spelling, grammar, syntax and/or even semantic errors.
Slashdot "editors" do not know about spellcheckers and never do proof-reading. They even don't read the articles they link to and put misleading titles, or don't read what the other "editors" published a few hours before, which result in duplicate postings.
Please don't flame me: I also happen to make errors when writing, but at least I don't call myself an "editor", and english is the 4th language I learned.
ms
Hrm. As I write this, the parent (grandparent?) post has been moderated +5 funny which is exactly as it should be. I think the distribution allows for whatever reason that exists in the "common person" (or in this case the common slashdotter, which is already highly uncommon) to outweigh the incompetence. I think the moderation system, as fucked up as it is sometimes, is the best way I've ever seen of trying to do something like this. In the end, interesting and insightful comments do get modded up, and the discussions are usually a joy to read at +3 or above. If you're going to bitch about the moderation system here, at least offer concrete suggestions for improvement.