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Future Directions Proposed For Mozilla
Ars-Fartsica writes "MozillaZine is now featuring a set of slides regarding future directions for Mozilla that were detailed at the recent Mozilla developers meeting. SVG and integration with programming languages are among the directions discussed."
When will the Mozilla team learn that Mozilla will never catch on until it is standards compliant?
Of course, by standards compliant, I mean the standards that Microsoft sets for the web.
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--Ronald Reagan
Maybe "Integration with operating system" would help.
FireHydrant is a great OS - If only someone would write a web browser for it.
A way to view slides with the window maximized.
There's plenty to keep them busy for the forseeable future. Lemme see, there's :
Fire - fly
Fire - storm
Fire - engine
Fire - hydrant
Fire - alarm (add-on for the calendar module)
Fire - bird (doh! no already had that one)
Fire - at will
Fire - in the hole
Fire - those responsible
Fire - those who did the firing
Fire - ooh oh oh I'll take you to burn
Come on now, join in everyone ...?
Here is the road map to the future of Firefox:
1. Rename Firefox to Foxfire.
2. Add better support for XHTML and CSS 2.
3. Rename Foxfire to Foxxy Brown.
4. Change the XML parsing engine to support new DTMLs.
5. Rename Foxxy Brown to Thunderbird (#2).
6. Put in a proactive pop-up blocker that DoS attacks websites that have pop ups.
7. Rename Thunderbird (#2) to Internet Explorer Jr.
8. Rename IE Jr. to Underpants.
9. Collect Underpants.
10. ????
11. Profit.
Step 10 is going to be the hardest.
You mean, like ActiveX? Er,.....
Tokyo... Check... Going across Pacific... Check... Stomping on Seattle... NYI (not yet implemented) MS should change their browser's name to King Kong, then we would have some fun, eh?
Was I the only one to read the parent as
"mozilla works perfectly, at least more perfectly than any other windows app... it does not install on my machine..."
And it actually made perfect sense.
"We are excited to use Mozilla as our new operating system," exclaimed Steve Ballmer, jumping around like a monkey. "The recent inclusion of web browser functionality in Mozilla makes it the perfect operating system for modern users."
Or, shall we say, Emacs is a great operating system, it just lacks a decent editor.
Hopefully the new integrated operating system kernel will have decent threads performance -- I hear they still haven't got that figured out in EMACS.
He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
Tell that to Microsoft. Or better yet, don't.
You said:
According to your own "UNCONFIRMED" (not "verified") bug, Linux also becomes unstable from using Mozilla FireFox.
Your parent said:
When FireFox crashes under Linux, Linux remains completely stable. (I suppose you could have guessed that.)
dyslexic or just too fucking stupid to read the comment you're replying to?
Yeah, yeah, i know, i have been trolled. Friggin morning slashdot before coffee...
#!/usr/bin/english
Well, look at the name. How could the project not produce a monster?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
You're right. And I can't see the images in Lynx. Where's the ASCII - renderings?
What are you talking about? The Firefox logo, when it's rotating looks like a rotating quad-damage.
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
Well said. Thank you for your comments.
Yours sincerely, orthogonal
Yeah, i stopped using msn messenger, er.. windows messenger, or whatever it is.. the name changed so many times I just couldn't handle it.. ok.. it was always obvious to me what it was, and ok the icon didn't change too much.. but the name.. the name changed.. my life was ruined.. I broke down at work and needed a months holiday.. my wife divorced me, the dog died.. and the world as I know it came to an end.. all this from the name change.. but finally i just stopped using it, and went to investigate more promising and viable entries in the IM sweepstakes.
I've been a bit hesitant about posting to Slashdot for a while, after being unfairly branded a troll and personally insulted just for expressing my views. But I have to say something here about my experiences with Firefox. I recently tried out Firefox, and found it to be a easy to use, speedy, convenient and powerful package which really improved my browsing experience. A bit like setting my filter to only show +5 posts on Slashdot! But I went back to Internet Explorer for this reason: my uneasiness over the morality of tabbed browsing. Bear with me here, I'll explain.
;) I find it difficult to admit to surfing the Internet to my Bible group. I can see the thought in their minds, that I'm misusing the Internet for the purposes of perverted onanism.
Pornography is a major problem on the internet, it is in fact THE major problem, worse than spam, hackers or even Windows!
But what has this to do with Tabbed browsing and Mozilla? Well, I have to admit there was time in my life when I was very low and accidentally found a web page containing a host of pictures of a woman in a state of undress. I believe they are called thumbnail gallery posts. Now, with tabbed browsing, it is possible to easily middle click on all those thumbnails and download the lot, then flick through each picture one handed by just pressing a few keys, so my friends tell me. Luckily, I am stronger than that - I place my faith in the Lord, not my flesh in my shameful hand.
It was at this moment I realised that tabbed browsing made certain activities just TOO EASY, and as such Firefox as a whole was a temptation too far for many surfers. I deleted the History, and sold my computer and after a few months, when I felt safe again, bought a new one. I continue to use only Internet Explorer and have never looked back. With its cumbersome habit of only opening new windows, it is simply impossible to get up a good rhythm and click open the next tiny box on the taskbar at the same time, thank G-d.
Really this post was a call to the Mozilla and Firefox developers- please take this so-called "functionality" out of your product. It degrades woman.
Meine Schwester ist sehr, sehr reizvoll - Nietzsche
The future direction should be finally fixing this bug and many other important ones.
scrolling (keyboard or mouse wheel) does not work for elements such as div using overflow - auto or scroll
How comes it works perfectly with iframe but totally fails with CSS overflow property? It's not like it is a new bug!
Then again... forget it. Fixing bugs is something for sissies.. how about a <BOUNCY> tag? Or other useless stuff?
It looks like some furred animal is humping the Earth.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
And before you flame me, I'm a staunch Mozilla fan and this was posted using Firefox.
have a look at the Firefox wallpaper then! its STUNNING looks damn hot on Windows and Linux!
:)
Well then it won't do me any good. I run OS X
...or the Internet Explorer logo? ;o)
I am NaN
WRONG! Flash is for..
Remixing songs
Music videos
Hitting penguins
Reading emails
You forget that MSFT is planning on using SVG as the basis to their next-generation display technology
Yeah, they get me excited, they get my hopes up, so I'm thinking, "Yeah, W3C standard SVG, world-wide confluence as a result of fantastic technical standard!"
And then it'll turn out to be ActiveSVG.NET, "different but better" than W3C SVG....
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Type up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right to get to the secret Slide Select menu, where you can jump to any slide in the game...errr...
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
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