There are other angles from which we can attack this. We compose a significant number of people who are locked out of sites due to proprietary MS standards. The question is how can we attack this?
1.) Create a site cataloging all linux unfriendly sites
2.) Email the webmasters, and the higher-ups of those sites notifying them that they have excluded a significant number of viewers. And point them to the site listed in 1.
3.) Continue working on Mozilla
4.) "Embrace and Extend" some webstandards of our own.
5.) Continue to browse the web using linux, never giving into Bill's monopoly.
I think basic is about as good as it will get. I learned BASIC at age 10 or so using a book by IBM for the PCjr. The book was excellent for kids, it had cartoon characters and projects that were achievable. For instance you could make snow flakes or just simple designs. And yet it still had some practical programs. I could not even fathom trying to learn C or any other complex language at that time. It took me about two years to hit the ceiling with what I could do with basic. (I think I stopped when I tried to start doing texture mapped 3d stuff:( )
Well that sucks. But I guess it will only push for a better solution to the linux desk top. I set out one day to determine which widget set makes the most sense, so I wrote the same app in gtk and in QT. QT was a breeze to program in and was intuitive and I had no problem completing my task. But gtk was a mess, It feels like a kludge and is very non-intuitive, I never finished the application, and I refuse to touch gtk again.
Overall gtk is fast, but is a mess to code in. qt not so fast, easy to program in, but not GNU
But in my search I found the FOX widget set. It Rocks. It is easy to program in and is fast AND it compiles in Windows and linux with out much work. Things just make sense with FOX. It is easier to use the QT it is GNU it is cross platform, is supports MDI, it ROCKS.
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There are other angles from which we can attack this. We compose a significant number of people who are locked out of sites due to proprietary MS standards. The question is how can we attack this?
1.) Create a site cataloging all linux unfriendly sites
2.) Email the webmasters, and the higher-ups of those sites notifying them that they have excluded a significant number of viewers. And point them to the site listed in 1.
3.) Continue working on Mozilla
4.) "Embrace and Extend" some webstandards of our own.
5.) Continue to browse the web using linux, never giving into Bill's monopoly.
wow imagine the beowulf cluster you could make with these...
Sorry. I had to say it just to be irritating. Altough I think that Sun has a good idea, I would
buy a sparc motherboard+CPU if it was under 400$.
celer
I think basic is about as good as it will get. I learned BASIC at age 10 or so using a book by IBM :( )
for the PCjr. The book was excellent for kids, it had cartoon characters and projects that were achievable. For instance you could make snow flakes or just simple designs. And yet it still had some practical programs. I could not even fathom trying to learn C or any other complex language at that time. It took me about two years to hit the ceiling with what I could do with basic. (I think I stopped when I tried to start doing texture mapped 3d stuff
IMHO
Well that sucks. But I guess it will only push for
a better solution to the linux desk top. I set out one day to determine which widget set makes the most sense, so I wrote the same app in gtk and in QT. QT was a breeze to program in and was intuitive and I had no problem completing my task. But gtk was a mess, It feels like a kludge and is very non-intuitive, I never finished the application, and I refuse to touch gtk again.
Overall
gtk is fast, but is a mess to code in.
qt not so fast, easy to program in, but not GNU
But in my search I found the FOX widget set. It Rocks. It is easy to program in and is fast AND it compiles in Windows and linux with out much work. Things just make sense with FOX. It is easier to use the QT it is GNU it is cross platform, is supports MDI, it ROCKS.
http://cyberia.cfdrc.com/FOX/fox.html
flame me if you want.
celer