I concur, as I started reading about the same time (#68), but haven't subscribed
to Dragon since shortly after the launch of Dungeon magazine (which would be
something like 17 years ago, right?)... guess I didn't help matters much.
Way back then, I did subscribe and read long after my interest in RPGs waned.
My assumption is that the focus and the content of the magazine shifted over
time. Anyone want to say whether it was for the better or worse?
Puzzle Quest is everything it was hyped to be and then some. It's currently my favorite game on the PSP, and I don't see it getting dethroned any time soon.
If you're somebody who creates web sites... the [meaningful] difference [between HTML 4 and XHTML 1] should be obvious. If it isn't, well, what can I say?
You wrote two paragraphs to supply a non-answer? Good to see the ACs putting in equal time, here.
Mitt Romney's site was a total surprise.... good semantics... Romney's web staff could run circles around the others
So, in 2007, <div> madness is representative of "good semantics". Color me surprised.
I'm also puzzled by the implicit assumption in your analysis that XHTML is somehow "better" than HTML. Care to explain what XHTML 1 accomplishes that HTML 4 doesn't?
It puzzles me how this fluff "review" made the front page. I can't be alone in thinking it's nothing more than an invitation to bitch about the candidate(s) you dislike under guise of critiquing his/her website. Can I?
I don't know why your post is modded as "informative," because you haven't provided any information about the incident to which you are referring.
Should you happen to rent or buy This Film Is Not Yet Rated the "incident" discussed in-thread is detailed during the audio commentary (by the film's director and producer) and again within a deleted scene (the phone call from an MPAA lawyer that informed the director of unauthorized copying was filmed, though the MPAA's half of the conversation was not directly recorded).
In a nutshell, the director had submitted the film to the MPAA for ratings review and was told that no one other than the raters would view the tape provided. He was also told that no copies would be made of the supplied materials. It came to pass that members of the MPAA admitted to not only screening the film for several non-raters but also to making at least one complete (and unauthorized) copy of the supplied tape.
It lacks the niceties and synergies afforded by the nice suite of peripherals available for my Fujitsu Stylistic [...] being able to drop my pen slate into a docking station on my desktop and instantly being connected to full-sized keyboard and mouse, Wacom graphics tablet, 17" display, network, printer and CD-ROM drive is something I'm not wild about giving up.
Not that I'm in the market for the ModBook myself, but it does come with a SuperDrive (your last point) and BlueTooth/AirPort should solve issues with keyboard/mouse, network, and printing (why tether to a docking station for such?)... that leaves the tablet (which it somewhat already is) and the external display, two peripherals that can still be connected to the ModBook, no?
After one version of a browser passes ACID2, regressions can make it not pass again.
While this is certainly true, it doesn't validate ACID2 as a reliable (let alone sole) measure of any browser's competence in handling recommended development guidelines.
Also, I know Safari is based off of Konqueror, and both are pass ACID2 (I think Opera does as well?)
So by having one of these in your compatability list, that should implicitly add the rest, even if all are a relatively lower market share compared to IE/Firefox.
This reasoning is nonsensical. The relation between "passing ACID2" and real-world site development isn't automatic. The scope of the ACID tests is narrow, and it's a trivial exercise to produce content that adheres to existing recommendations that browsers "passing ACID2" handle in varying and deleterious fashion.
The IE under Mac has official releases have a whole bag of different behaviours than IE under Win, and this method of using IE under Linux suffers the same fate.
The fate may appear similar in some regards, but the underlying reasons are not the same.
Internet Explorer for Macintosh doesn't share a codebase with Internet Explorer for Windows, and so, it's unsurprising that behaviors would differ. Running Internet Explorer atop Linux may expose behavior differences compared to Windows despite shared executable content for reasons that are entirely "other".
PayPal deducted the money and said they will only return the money if I provided a tracking number. Because I sent it regular mail without a tracking number I could not prove that I sent the package, and so they kept my money. [...] I was a good honest seller and still got burned. Ebay is not safe at all for the seller.
Delivery Confirmation on USPS packages amounts to a whopping $0.50 to $0.60, and tracking is free from UPS, FedEx, etc.
It escapes me how one could not apply tracking to an eBay package given the nominal fees, especially on a $100 transaction such as yours. How are you unfairly at the mercy of eBay/PayPal when you fail to take even basic precautions as a seller yourself?
[T]he type of people who are going to use Linux as their desktop OS aren't exactly the type of people who are going to use IE as their major browser... how likely do you think it is that a Linux user would use it? I thought so.
That's a terribly oblique response to the grandparent post. I should think you'd consider that Microsoft had released and maintained a flavor of Internet Explorer for Mac OS Classic / OS X. I'm not so sure your logic really applies to that market, and of the IEs beyond Windows, the one for Mac had greater and more sustained exposure.
As to why it made sense then, but not now, to pursue IE on Apple's OS... I guess we're left to fill in our own blanks on that one.
When you pay someone to spend 40 hours a week using a web application, is it unreasonable to assume that someone could take the time to tell them?
My point with respect to training had to do with "websites" not a particular web application backed as you describe. Again, that's a narrow case taken in the full context of your original statements.
Your original post blurs distinction between what's advantageous for "web developers" (unqualified, as a general class) relative to more specialized "web gui" design and deployment. I question the validity of your observation with respect to the former, which should have been quite clear from my first response.
Web developers need to program more javascript shortcuts in to their code. Even just simple stuff, like instead of searching for the next button with your mouse, just being able to press 'n'.
Right... and who's going to educate users about such schemes, which will undoubtedly vary from one site to the next? Outside of involved "web apps", there's probably a trade-off in development time in building out something along these lines given how few users to whom this will appeal, who are willing to take the time to learn an ad hoc navigation scheme in the first place.
[S]ome people who work in customer service who were moved off of a telnet based support system to a web gui [...] lost their minds when a single command line entry became 5 mouse clicks and lots of scrolling with 1 second page loads.
This is a quite narrow example, and may result from something other than lack of scripted keyboard accelerators (e.g., improper translation from terminal app to web app). I'm not sure it says much for websites in general and their need for per-site keyboard remappings.
Microsoft does not support an official way to run multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same system.
...and neither does Apple with Safari. Marketshare is probably the only reason why you don't hear as many complaints. So it goes, but Microsoft isn't alone here.
This won't have much immediate effect.
In this, you're correct. It isn't more than a potential headache until more than one version of IE becomes available for Vista.
Something to think about, though.
Maybe for end users, but I don't think Microsoft will lose any sleep over it. It has had years to ease cross-version testing; nothing has changed. From Microsoft's perspective, it's either not a priority, not a goal, or not possible.
I'd also like to see Forbidden Forest, the Jumpman series, and the Apshai games.
Thumbs up to Forbidden Forest, but of the Apshai titles, I'd only look forward to Gateway to Apshai.
The remainder of Apshai titles were RPGs with excruciating controls and limited appeal IMO, even in the age of the C64.
The closing of the Xnu kernel and proprietary nature of carbon and aqua made alot of former macosx FOSS zealots switch to Linux.
Care to quantify that? What? You can't? You mean you're only talking about a handful of bloggers? And even though many read their rants for amusement, does that bless their scribblings as a bellwether for OS X? It doesn't? Oh, I see.
Some may have "gone over" to Linux, but I don't think Apple loses sleep over it. I don't, and I fail to grasp what bearing it has on Apple's attempts to put code "out there" to interest other developers.
As for the rest of your post... I will admit to it having been lost on me. Windows is closed, but everyone uses it, but "most" (though, clearly not in terms of market share) operating systems are open, and so what then... ?
However, it [inline-block] is an essential layout ingredient.
Is it? Given today's confused state of CSS support amongst browsers, I can't say that I've ever found this to be a "must have" property. Broadening support to include it would be nice, but in day-to-day webwork, I just haven't seen its absence to be a deal-breaker of any sort.
I'm talking about smaller more personal blogs... . [L]ink degradation is a problem... but I think migration isn't. If you backup your data... . [I]t can be indexed and searched with much greater ease than journals and diaries of old... [W]e have the ability to maintain the most important parts of them.... I think blogging serves as an excellent informal history of personal, national, and world events.
Granted, there may be the capability to maintain, index, and query "electronic" journals of the sort you describe. It is necessary, but insufficient, to effect your future claims. Utility and longevity require motivation and discipline, and for the population you're describing -- those churning out informal, egocentric datastores -- can one presume either of these requirements?
These writings will join the corpus of history should they survive. Until then, they're only fleeting remarks. How many blogs will usefully persist after a decade? I'm not so certain (typical) habits pertaining to long-term "electronic" document retention have improved significantly to date.
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I concur, as I started reading about the same time (#68), but haven't subscribed to Dragon since shortly after the launch of Dungeon magazine (which would be something like 17 years ago, right?) ... guess I didn't help matters much.
Way back then, I did subscribe and read long after my interest in RPGs waned. My assumption is that the focus and the content of the magazine shifted over time. Anyone want to say whether it was for the better or worse?
But wasn't it released for the Nintendo DS, too? Is the PSP version *that* much better?
Unfortunately, editor possession makes all too much sense.
You wrote two paragraphs to supply a non-answer? Good to see the ACs putting in equal time, here.
So, in 2007, <div> madness is representative of "good semantics". Color me surprised.
I'm also puzzled by the implicit assumption in your analysis that XHTML is somehow "better" than HTML. Care to explain what XHTML 1 accomplishes that HTML 4 doesn't?
It puzzles me how this fluff "review" made the front page. I can't be alone in thinking it's nothing more than an invitation to bitch about the candidate(s) you dislike under guise of critiquing his/her website. Can I?
Should you happen to rent or buy This Film Is Not Yet Rated the "incident" discussed in-thread is detailed during the audio commentary (by the film's director and producer) and again within a deleted scene (the phone call from an MPAA lawyer that informed the director of unauthorized copying was filmed, though the MPAA's half of the conversation was not directly recorded).
In a nutshell, the director had submitted the film to the MPAA for ratings review and was told that no one other than the raters would view the tape provided. He was also told that no copies would be made of the supplied materials. It came to pass that members of the MPAA admitted to not only screening the film for several non-raters but also to making at least one complete (and unauthorized) copy of the supplied tape.
Wikipedia covers this same ground though that summary is about as lacking as mine in terms of substantive references.
It's a modified MacBook and so, possesses only one FireWire port (did you look at the photo to which you linked?).
Not that I'm in the market for the ModBook myself, but it does come with a SuperDrive (your last point) and BlueTooth/AirPort should solve issues with keyboard/mouse, network, and printing (why tether to a docking station for such?) ... that leaves the tablet (which it somewhat already is) and the external display, two peripherals that can still be connected to the ModBook, no?
I don't see the ModBook missing out on any of the above.
It's not ultraportable, but this should meet the "for nearly any price" requirement: Axiotron ModBook.
You need to read the Guided Tour closely, in particular the 'CSS Parsing' bullet within the 'What we are testing?' section.
While this is certainly true, it doesn't validate ACID2 as a reliable (let alone sole) measure of any browser's competence in handling recommended development guidelines.
This reasoning is nonsensical. The relation between "passing ACID2" and real-world site development isn't automatic. The scope of the ACID tests is narrow, and it's a trivial exercise to produce content that adheres to existing recommendations that browsers "passing ACID2" handle in varying and deleterious fashion.
The fate may appear similar in some regards, but the underlying reasons are not the same.
Internet Explorer for Macintosh doesn't share a codebase with Internet Explorer for Windows, and so, it's unsurprising that behaviors would differ. Running Internet Explorer atop Linux may expose behavior differences compared to Windows despite shared executable content for reasons that are entirely "other".
Delivery Confirmation on USPS packages amounts to a whopping $0.50 to $0.60, and tracking is free from UPS, FedEx, etc.
It escapes me how one could not apply tracking to an eBay package given the nominal fees, especially on a $100 transaction such as yours. How are you unfairly at the mercy of eBay/PayPal when you fail to take even basic precautions as a seller yourself?
No, usually, it's done (within these 'toolkits') in a half-arsed fashion that tend toward extended exercises in obfuscation.
I guess that's a kind of cool.
Widgets did not come from Konfabulator, they are a revamp of Apple's own desk accessories.
I wish the whole "ripped off from Konfabulator" presumption never got off the ground, or at least, would die.
That's a terribly oblique response to the grandparent post. I should think you'd consider that Microsoft had released and maintained a flavor of Internet Explorer for Mac OS Classic / OS X. I'm not so sure your logic really applies to that market, and of the IEs beyond Windows, the one for Mac had greater and more sustained exposure.
As to why it made sense then, but not now, to pursue IE on Apple's OS ... I guess we're left to fill in our own blanks on that one.
My point with respect to training had to do with "websites" not a particular web application backed as you describe. Again, that's a narrow case taken in the full context of your original statements.
Your original post blurs distinction between what's advantageous for "web developers" (unqualified, as a general class) relative to more specialized "web gui" design and deployment. I question the validity of your observation with respect to the former, which should have been quite clear from my first response.
Right... and who's going to educate users about such schemes, which will undoubtedly vary from one site to the next? Outside of involved "web apps", there's probably a trade-off in development time in building out something along these lines given how few users to whom this will appeal, who are willing to take the time to learn an ad hoc navigation scheme in the first place.
This is a quite narrow example, and may result from something other than lack of scripted keyboard accelerators (e.g., improper translation from terminal app to web app). I'm not sure it says much for websites in general and their need for per-site keyboard remappings.
In this, you're correct. It isn't more than a potential headache until more than one version of IE becomes available for Vista.
Maybe for end users, but I don't think Microsoft will lose any sleep over it. It has had years to ease cross-version testing; nothing has changed. From Microsoft's perspective, it's either not a priority, not a goal, or not possible.
Thumbs up to Forbidden Forest, but of the Apshai titles, I'd only look forward to Gateway to Apshai. The remainder of Apshai titles were RPGs with excruciating controls and limited appeal IMO, even in the age of the C64.
Care to quantify that? What? You can't? You mean you're only talking about a handful of bloggers? And even though many read their rants for amusement, does that bless their scribblings as a bellwether for OS X? It doesn't? Oh, I see.
Some may have "gone over" to Linux, but I don't think Apple loses sleep over it. I don't, and I fail to grasp what bearing it has on Apple's attempts to put code "out there" to interest other developers.
As for the rest of your post ... I will admit to it having been lost on me. Windows is closed, but everyone uses it, but "most" (though, clearly not in terms of market share) operating systems are open, and so what then ... ?
Is it? Given today's confused state of CSS support amongst browsers, I can't say that I've ever found this to be a "must have" property. Broadening support to include it would be nice, but in day-to-day webwork, I just haven't seen its absence to be a deal-breaker of any sort.
Granted, there may be the capability to maintain, index, and query "electronic" journals of the sort you describe. It is necessary, but insufficient, to effect your future claims. Utility and longevity require motivation and discipline, and for the population you're describing -- those churning out informal, egocentric datastores -- can one presume either of these requirements?
These writings will join the corpus of history should they survive. Until then, they're only fleeting remarks. How many blogs will usefully persist after a decade? I'm not so certain (typical) habits pertaining to long-term "electronic" document retention have improved significantly to date.