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  1. Re:Very Interesting... on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 1

    And in Opera the address bar is very much an aspect of the current page. Opera also does mail, and it doesn't really make much sense for your RSS feed tab to have an address bar.

  2. Re:Very Interesting... on Google Chrome, the Google Browser · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean the canvas element? Firefox and Opera are already working on 3D drawing contexts.

    Opera build, Opera Code example
    Firefox Addon

    Another advantage to giving web apps this power- it makes learning programming (especially the flashy bits) easier. Elementry-schoolers needn't worry about configuring compilers, managing imports, window handles, etc; the browser does it all. HTML and parts of Javascript are simple enough to explain with a good teacher; gloss over the trickier bits at first with a voodoo var artist = getElementById('canvas').getContext('2d'); line, and drawing becomes much more accessable.

  3. Re:Exactly. on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    So, what is the term for "This is too complex to be the result of chance, God must have done it, and you can bet we're gonna do our best to reverse-engineer tech this cool!"?

  4. Re:What about a Comparison Matrix on The State of Scripting Languages · · Score: 1

    The tricky part is when dealing with variables- that number from that form field, is it still a string, or did you convert it with "num=num*1" already?

    Mind you, I still love Javascript; it just requires cauton.

  5. Re:Edifying on Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet · · Score: 1

    Never trust a preacher who wears a five thousand dollar suit. Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the slashdot athiests combined. He is one of the "wolves in sheep's clothing" Christ warned you about; so is Bush. They worship not God, but mammon. Their church is the bank and their priest is the economist. These people believe that priceless==worthless. Beware of them.

    Quoted for truth. And lack of modpoints today.

  6. Re:Reduce consumption to balance load on The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Some companies actually do that- I recall our utility offering to install a switch like that on the hot water heater.

  7. Re:Science or philosophy on Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? · · Score: 1

    Like the Big Bang?

    OK, it could be science. But we'd have to blow up the universe first.

  8. Re:How much more of this until browsers adapt? on Russia and Georgia Engaged In a Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    True, but with Opera (and likely other browsers) you need to restart the browser for it to take effect; a rather annoying amount of overhead.

  9. Re:Good Luck... on China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City · · Score: 1

    Chicken tastes better, too.

  10. Re:Fireworks on TV on Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked · · Score: 1

    And sound aside, on the 4th the camera only captures the one show; I spent the last 4th of July on a DC rooftop, and it was quite impressive- aside from the Capitol fireworks that were being aired on TV, one could see the shows of ~10 surrounding counties. Along with all the smuggled-in fireworks people were setting off in empty lots...

  11. Re:Gravity from "elsewhere"? on Simulation Predicts Clumps of Dark Matter Within Galaxies · · Score: 1

    So, are you suggesting that dark matter gravity is actually gravity from matter in a parallel universe or from this universe folded in extra dimensions? Sounds fun, even if false.

  12. Re:Lawsuit! on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    Even if some goals are in common to all, many goals conflict, and different people will prioritize them differently.

  13. Re:Lawsuit! on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    By what means? How can one logically determine what one "should" do without an objective goal?

  14. Re:Adjective? on TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags · · Score: 1

    Huh. The plastic zippers I've encountered hold up pretty well, though they do tend to be bulkier than metal.

  15. Adjective? on TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags · · Score: 3, Informative

    Does "metal" apply to just snaps, or are plastic zippers allowed?

  16. Re:The tag is stupid on Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support · · Score: 1
    But if you want to offer any sort of controls that fit in with your site, you're out of luck unless you use Flash, which is of course what we're trying to avoid.

    On the other hand, the video tag lets you do stuff like:

    <video id="movie" src="movie.ogg" width="400" height="300" type="video/ogg; codecs=&quot;theora, speex&quot;">My cool movie that you can't see because your browser doesn't support ogg. Pity.</video>
    <button class="myStyle" onclick="document.getElementById('movie').play();">Play it now!</button>

  17. Re:The tag is stupid on Ogg Theora In Firefox, With Wikimedia Support · · Score: 1

    Yeah! And while we're at it, what's with all these em, b, img, table, h1 tags? All we need are span tags with CSS! In fact, just blank object tags with CSS will work just fine.

    The video & audio tags are there for semantics- sure, you could just use object tags, but it's a lot easier to use video and audio when you don't have to worry about what particular plugin the user has installed- the video and audio tags give you a consistant API.

  18. Re:Awesome bar disable? on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 1

    Opera's Speed Dial is linked to similar shortcuts (CTRL-1, etc., I think), in case you're interested.

  19. Re:"Override Back Button Event"??? on Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers · · Score: 1

    Using Opera, I just tear off the tab into a new window. MDI's been around for a while.

  20. Re:Should be: Effect of Opera on Firefox on Firefox's Effect On Other Browsers · · Score: 1

    Widgets? Once Opera fully implements their own spec, (specifically file access & windowed mode), they'll actually be quite usable as web applications.

  21. Re:Free Competition in Currency Act of 2007 on E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering · · Score: 1

    So how is gold any better? It's a good connector plater, and that's all the intrisic value I can think of.

    Today, the dollar is backed by the force of US law. In the days of the gold standard, it was backed by people liking shinyness. How does either give the dollar "real worth"?

  22. Re:PHP on How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    JavScript would be preferable; no need to muck around with webservers, so it's even faster to start with. Plus, a prototype-based object oriented system is simpler to learn; no mucking around with classes, but equally powerful.

    (Just don't mention document.write(); it's been bad practice for years, and document.getElementById("...").innerHTML is a simple enough idiom, if not DOM kosher.)

  23. Re:Well? on To Stet Or Not To Stet, That Is the Question · · Score: 1

    I do that online- I've even used your example, I'm pretty sure.

    Offline, I'll tend to be "proper", but most things I write offline lack quotes anyway.

  24. Re:End of a Story on Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs · · Score: 1

    Even if they had to let people run it on any system they want (which seems fair), I doubt they're required to provide drivers.

    Ruling that the EULA has no weight is not the same as forcing Apple to support a competitor's hardware.

  25. Re:End of a Story on Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs · · Score: 1

    Or c) they just don't want to bother making drivers for other vendors' hardware.