mind telling me which particular features IE has that are in common use which the current mozilla doesnt support?
The most popular features in IE that aren't in Mozilla:
document.all in the DOM (nonstandard; use getElementById() instead)
ActiveX (Windows IE specific; required for Windows Update)
"MSIE" in the User-agent (necessary to prevent some sites from claiming "We deny Mozilla users access to this page. Spoofing your user agent is a violation of the DMCA.")
There isn't if slashdot offered a caching proxy... But IANAL
In the United States, a rider to the DMCA made it legal to run a caching proxy provided that you 1. use technical measures to obey the content provider's wishes (a conforming HTTP/1.1 proxy will work fine), and 2. designate an agent to handle takedown requests.
Unfortunately, if we cache and then illegal material is downloaded, we can be held responsible for that material.
Not necessarily. A rider on the DMCA allows service providers in the United States to cache web pages, provided that they meet certain criteria (which are easy with HTTP/1.1) and designate one of their employees as a DMCA agent. Read more on this page.
"Web browsers don't support" is not an excuse anymore
As you correctly point out, that's true for non-animated images. However, what do you propose for simple animations? What if animated.gif is the only way I can get advertisers to buy space on my site? Is there a way to hold off Unisys for the last nine months of the life of U.S. Patent 4,558,302? Mozilla (and Netscape 7) is the only popular browser to support Multiple-image Network Graphics, the animated extension to PNG and free alternative to animated GIF images. Excluding IE users is not an option. Or should I try to find (or write) a tool to convert animated.gif to.swf?
unless you have alpha (specifically multiple levels of transparency), which some of the older browsers didn't handle so well.
Even IE 6 doesn't handle alpha very well. (Mozilla does.) However, any PNG image converted from a still GIF image will work fine.
They need to get a PIV at 4.77Ghz and an 8088 at 4.77Mhz side by side. It'd make a neat statement.
Windows XP would still take about as long to boot on the 4.77 GHz machine as MS-DOS 2 would on the 8088.
Gates's law: The time taken to perform simple operations in mass-market software, measured in microprocessor clock cycles, will increase in subsequent versions of a software product at a rate roughly proportional to the increase in clocks per second of newer microprocessors. Thus, given a lack of funding for increasing hardware speed and a requirement to "keep up with the Joneses" dictated by changing proprietary file formats, the speed of software halves every 18 months.
He was asking what PPI = how many points _per_inch_.
That depends on how close the eye is to the object being viewed. Obviously, it only takes half the PPI to fool the eye for an object 50 cm away from the eye than for an object 100 cm away from the eye. The eye sees in radians, and the brain converts that to metres based on depth cues.
I couldn't give a fvck if people can read my site or not in its intended form.
However, PHBs and marketing types can be fascist in their insistence on branding and the corporate style sheet. If it doesn't display the same on all browsers down to the pixel, PHBs assume it to be the web developers' fault.
In some songs I've remixed, I've used a similar effect: When the artist talks about MP3 (such as in Eminem - "The Real Slim Shady"), I sometimes put short parts of the song in 32 kbps mono MP3, even when I distribute the final product in Fraunhofer's MP3 format or in Xiph.org's Ogg format. It's a dramatization.
Is it because they make the surroundings blurry, or put more colors, or is it simply the power of suggestion...
Likewise, in commercials for displays, using highly magnified screenshots is common. Exaggerating the artifacts is legal if you put some language like "Dramatization of difference between our display and the competition" in a caption with reasonably-sized text.
I propose a new flag in the standard TCP/IP packet. We shall call this the Slashdot Flag.
There is already a flag in HTTP/1.1 (which operates on top of TCP) that allows Slashdot attacks to be detected. It's called the Referer: header. If the referer is slashdot.org then either refuse the visitor (bugzilla does this) or present a static page with low-resolution graphics.
I'm not sure Apple needs to feel threatened by the NexIIe just yet.
However, once the NexIIgs comes out... (explanation)
One of the big problems with this device is it's still using USB which is much slower than iPod's FireWire.
USB, or USB 1.0? USB 2 is about as fast as FireWire, and USB 1 is still fast enough to move a pocket-player-quality (128 kbps) MP3 song in four seconds, or several whole albums in less than the time it takes to play a game of Klax.
Damn... All the new power supplies are CBDTPA compliant.
Bad joke. I thought it would be obvious that I didn't imply the entire Cartesian product of {power supplies, storage devices, other devices} and {obsolescence, CBDTPA}. For example, if I had an old AT-style motherboard, it'd be pretty hard to find new power supplies for it because most mobo manufacturers have migrated to either the ATX configuration or the slightly different DellTX configuration.
What I really meant was that after a couple decades (or sooner if Sen. Hollings gets his way), PCI, ATA, and other PC hardware standards will become obsolete, and you won't be able to find parts for your pre-ban computer because few to no manufacturers will still make them. For example, anybody know where I can get a drive to read 8" floppy disks?
slashdot-type geeks will tend to keep one DRM-enabled computer for games and movies, and another DRM-disabled computer for hacking
That is, until the second computer free of digital restrictions management can no longer boot due to hardware failure. What makes you think the CBDTPA (or whatever Sen. Hollings and company are calling their bill right now) won't ban selling parts for pre-ban computers?
I bet they can't stop me from using my all powerfull 8MM Jack on a Palladium machine.
There is no 8mm jack. Are you referring to the 1/8 inch audio connector? Microsoft can disable that as well by inserting inaudible DRM watermarks into audio output. Removing such watermarks is a crime under the DMCA (17 USC 1201 and 1202).
Especially since you don't really need a new computer unless you are working with multimedia.
Or your old computer breaks, and power supplies, hard drives, etc. with the appropriate hardware interface are no longer available due to either obsolescence or CBDTPA.
If all you want to do is some word processing your old machine is almost certainly fast enough.
In the future, I see the office automation computer industry becoming more like the refrigerator or dishwasher industry: you replace it when it breaks. The most obvious thing keeping this from already having happened is the fact that the prominent editable rich document format (.doc) is controlled by a company that makes its software twice as bloated every two years.
Slashdot Mirror
IE6 has mouse gestures
Is Mickey [ O ] sticking his middle finger up enough of a "mouse gesture"?
tabbed browsing
Maximize IE, and your taskbar becomes a tab bar. Or install CrazyBrowser.
and pop-up blocking?
Press Ctrl+W real quick before the pop-up finishes loading.
Such are the workarounds IE users employ to emulate Mozilla features.
mind telling me which particular features IE has that are in common use which the current mozilla doesnt support?
The most popular features in IE that aren't in Mozilla:
The headline states Mozilla 1.2 "Beta" only to be told that the MOzilla 1.2 Alpha was released.
I interpreted the headline as "the Mozilla trunk is now open to Beta checkins."
There isn't if slashdot offered a caching proxy ... But IANAL
In the United States, a rider to the DMCA made it legal to run a caching proxy provided that you 1. use technical measures to obey the content provider's wishes (a conforming HTTP/1.1 proxy will work fine), and 2. designate an agent to handle takedown requests.
When will we see a working "cachedot"?
The Windows font APIs are all point based
Maybe the fonts are, but the rest of the APIs (for drawing lines, etc.) are generally done in pixels.
Unfortunately, if we cache and then illegal material is downloaded, we can be held responsible for that material.
Not necessarily. A rider on the DMCA allows service providers in the United States to cache web pages, provided that they meet certain criteria (which are easy with HTTP/1.1) and designate one of their employees as a DMCA agent. Read more on this page.
"Web browsers don't support" is not an excuse anymore
As you correctly point out, that's true for non-animated images. However, what do you propose for simple animations? What if animated .gif is the only way I can get advertisers to buy space on my site? Is there a way to hold off Unisys for the last nine months of the life of U.S. Patent 4,558,302? Mozilla (and Netscape 7) is the only popular browser to support Multiple-image Network Graphics, the animated extension to PNG and free alternative to animated GIF images. Excluding IE users is not an option. Or should I try to find (or write) a tool to convert animated .gif to .swf?
unless you have alpha (specifically multiple levels of transparency), which some of the older browsers didn't handle so well.
Even IE 6 doesn't handle alpha very well. (Mozilla does.) However, any PNG image converted from a still GIF image will work fine.
And I just tried [www.bugzilla.org], and it worked fine
I wasn't aware of www.bugzilla.org. I was referring to bugzilla.mozilla.org, which just refused me.
Something silly ... About posting a picture of a 200 dpi monitor to be viewed and evaluated on a 72 dpi monitor
Look at a 72 dpi monitor. Then look at a 72 dpi monitor under 2.77x magnification. That's the difference between 72 dpi and 200 dpi.
They need to get a PIV at 4.77Ghz and an 8088 at 4.77Mhz side by side. It'd make a neat statement.
Windows XP would still take about as long to boot on the 4.77 GHz machine as MS-DOS 2 would on the 8088.
Gates's law: The time taken to perform simple operations in mass-market software, measured in microprocessor clock cycles, will increase in subsequent versions of a software product at a rate roughly proportional to the increase in clocks per second of newer microprocessors. Thus, given a lack of funding for increasing hardware speed and a requirement to "keep up with the Joneses" dictated by changing proprietary file formats, the speed of software halves every 18 months.
He was asking what PPI = how many points _per_inch_.
That depends on how close the eye is to the object being viewed. Obviously, it only takes half the PPI to fool the eye for an object 50 cm away from the eye than for an object 100 cm away from the eye. The eye sees in radians, and the brain converts that to metres based on depth cues.
Or, just go ahead and set the "DPI" setting to 200... Works much better!
And then watch what happens when poorly-written but mission-critical applications ignore the display resolution and force pixel-sized fonts.
I couldn't give a fvck if people can read my site or not in its intended form.
However, PHBs and marketing types can be fascist in their insistence on branding and the corporate style sheet. If it doesn't display the same on all browsers down to the pixel, PHBs assume it to be the web developers' fault.
Also, the bandwidth issue was just a mod_gzip problem. It quadrupled our bandwidth usage basically.
Why did the sysadmin turn off mod_gzip? Is the sysadmin affiliated with the organization that charges you for bandwidth?
I wonder how they actually make it look clearer.
In some songs I've remixed, I've used a similar effect: When the artist talks about MP3 (such as in Eminem - "The Real Slim Shady"), I sometimes put short parts of the song in 32 kbps mono MP3, even when I distribute the final product in Fraunhofer's MP3 format or in Xiph.org's Ogg format. It's a dramatization.
Is it because they make the surroundings blurry, or put more colors, or is it simply the power of suggestion...
Likewise, in commercials for displays, using highly magnified screenshots is common. Exaggerating the artifacts is legal if you put some language like "Dramatization of difference between our display and the competition" in a caption with reasonably-sized text.
Fill out the survey and say that you regularly smoke thier biggest competitor's brand.
If you don't, that's fraud (as the fine print states), and you can get sent to prison.
The last time I checked, HTML is still an SGML application.
HTML 4.01 is an SGML application. However, the newer versions of HTML are XML applications. They go by the name XHTML.
I propose a new flag in the standard TCP/IP packet. We shall call this the Slashdot Flag.
There is already a flag in HTTP/1.1 (which operates on top of TCP) that allows Slashdot attacks to be detected. It's called the Referer: header. If the referer is slashdot.org then either refuse the visitor (bugzilla does this) or present a static page with low-resolution graphics.
I'm not sure Apple needs to feel threatened by the NexIIe just yet.
However, once the NexIIgs comes out... (explanation)
One of the big problems with this device is it's still using USB which is much slower than iPod's FireWire.
USB, or USB 1.0? USB 2 is about as fast as FireWire, and USB 1 is still fast enough to move a pocket-player-quality (128 kbps) MP3 song in four seconds, or several whole albums in less than the time it takes to play a game of Klax.
Damn... All the new power supplies are CBDTPA compliant.
Bad joke. I thought it would be obvious that I didn't imply the entire Cartesian product of {power supplies, storage devices, other devices} and {obsolescence, CBDTPA}. For example, if I had an old AT-style motherboard, it'd be pretty hard to find new power supplies for it because most mobo manufacturers have migrated to either the ATX configuration or the slightly different DellTX configuration.
What I really meant was that after a couple decades (or sooner if Sen. Hollings gets his way), PCI, ATA, and other PC hardware standards will become obsolete, and you won't be able to find parts for your pre-ban computer because few to no manufacturers will still make them. For example, anybody know where I can get a drive to read 8" floppy disks?
FPGAs
In the dystopia, those would be available only to licensed and bonded developers.
the only way they can stop me is to make C compilers illegal and punishable by death...
RMS has that situation covered.
slashdot-type geeks will tend to keep one DRM-enabled computer for games and movies, and another DRM-disabled computer for hacking
That is, until the second computer free of digital restrictions management can no longer boot due to hardware failure. What makes you think the CBDTPA (or whatever Sen. Hollings and company are calling their bill right now) won't ban selling parts for pre-ban computers?
I bet they can't stop me from using my all powerfull 8MM Jack on a Palladium machine.
There is no 8mm jack. Are you referring to the 1/8 inch audio connector? Microsoft can disable that as well by inserting inaudible DRM watermarks into audio output. Removing such watermarks is a crime under the DMCA (17 USC 1201 and 1202).
Especially since you don't really need a new computer unless you are working with multimedia.
Or your old computer breaks, and power supplies, hard drives, etc. with the appropriate hardware interface are no longer available due to either obsolescence or CBDTPA.
If all you want to do is some word processing your old machine is almost certainly fast enough.
In the future, I see the office automation computer industry becoming more like the refrigerator or dishwasher industry: you replace it when it breaks. The most obvious thing keeping this from already having happened is the fact that the prominent editable rich document format (.doc) is controlled by a company that makes its software twice as bloated every two years.