From reading Slashdot comments I had assumed that it was a complete pos.
I just downloaded 0.6 for windows and I am have to say I am impressed. On my p400 256Meg machine it renders incredibly quickly. Most of the major bugs I saw 6 months ago are fixed. Also, they replaced the old mozilla skin with a netscape 4.0 skin which is a lot nicer to look at.
I don't know about the linux version, but from what I can tell this thing is ready for prime time. The only pages I could get to break where heavy dhtml sites. Try it, you'll like it!
What a stupid article. As if the macosx release was some kind of huge cultural event. Something tells years from now, me people won't be asking me where I was when I saw macosx for the first time.
Just because there is no prior art dosen't mean you can patent something. The argument against the Amazon patent is not about prior art, but rather that the invention is an obvious use of technology.
And while you think it is obvious only to 'saavy' slashdotters, perhaps that's because most of them have programming experience and understand the technology.I would hope that the people at the patent obvious were a little more 'savvy' when it comes to the fundamentals of web programming. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.
Ahh, grasshopper you have so much to learn. Amazon's patent covers the idea of using cookies to remember a customer's billing information so that they do not have to re-enter it every time they return to the site.
While this may seem novel, anyone with any understanding of web programming will tell you that patenting the use of cookies to save user information is like patenting the use of HTML for marking up text. Cookies were created to allow web site to 'remember' who you are when you return to the site. That's what they do, period!
So, even though there is no prior art, anyone who is familiar with the technology will tell you that this is a case of patenting the obvious. That's why so many people have their panties is a twist about the whole thing..
Still you have to wonder why jcrew deserves crew.com.
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I donwloaded the nightly build for Windoze a couple of days ago and I was really impressed. I keep hearing all this noise about bloat, but I ran it for close to an hour on WIn2K and it ran fast and stable!
What's everyone complaining about!!!This looks like it's going to be ready in a few days and it looks awesome.
The UI looks pretty crappy tho..
Beefarino.
AHH RUSTY!
There was a story a couple of months ago on/. about a guy who bought the domain races.com for 50,000. During the transfer process NSI accidentally re-sold the domain to a domain speculation corp. Unfortunately, under the registartion contract this guy had no rights. NSI doesn't guarantee you will actually get the domain you pay for. Basically, you have no rights. Is that evil enough?
Do we really need to invent another text markup language using xml? What about HTML? it's about as standard as you're gonna get. Plus I can post my documents on the web, I can send them as emails. There are already a large number of high quality WYSIWYGs out there for html, plus a most of the tech community is pretty fluent in html I imagine. Why reinvent the wheel... Beefarino
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I just downloaded 0.6 for windows and I am have to say I am impressed. On my p400 256Meg machine it renders incredibly quickly. Most of the major bugs I saw 6 months ago are fixed. Also, they replaced the old mozilla skin with a netscape 4.0 skin which is a lot nicer to look at.
I don't know about the linux version, but from what I can tell this thing is ready for prime time. The only pages I could get to break where heavy dhtml sites. Try it, you'll like it!
What a stupid article. As if the macosx release was some kind of huge cultural event. Something tells years from now, me people won't be asking me where I was when I saw macosx for the first time.
Give me a break.
And while you think it is obvious only to 'saavy' slashdotters, perhaps that's because most of them have programming experience and understand the technology.I would hope that the people at the patent obvious were a little more 'savvy' when it comes to the fundamentals of web programming. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.
While this may seem novel, anyone with any understanding of web programming will tell you that patenting the use of cookies to save user information is like patenting the use of HTML for marking up text. Cookies were created to allow web site to 'remember' who you are when you return to the site. That's what they do, period!
So, even though there is no prior art, anyone who is familiar with the technology will tell you that this is a case of patenting the obvious. That's why so many people have their panties is a twist about the whole thing..
Still you have to wonder why jcrew deserves crew.com.
I donwloaded the nightly build for Windoze a couple of days ago and I was really impressed. I keep hearing all this noise about bloat, but I ran it for close to an hour on WIn2K and it ran fast and stable! What's everyone complaining about!!!This looks like it's going to be ready in a few days and it looks awesome. The UI looks pretty crappy tho.. Beefarino. AHH RUSTY!
There was a story a couple of months ago on /. about a guy who bought the domain races.com for 50,000. During the transfer process NSI accidentally re-sold the domain to a domain speculation corp. Unfortunately, under the registartion contract this guy had no rights. NSI doesn't guarantee you will actually get the domain you pay for. Basically, you have no rights. Is that evil enough?
Do we really need to invent another text markup language using xml? What about HTML? it's about as standard as you're gonna get. Plus I can post my documents on the web, I can send them as emails. There are already a large number of high quality WYSIWYGs out there for html, plus a most of the tech community is pretty fluent in html I imagine. Why reinvent the wheel... Beefarino