I used to work with/under Norm (he was my boss) and he's a great guy! When I worked with him he wasn't a Keeper of the Key but he was still pretty cool
Right. You have a source for that? The closest I've seen is a report about a guy arrested for sex crimes who also had all these Voyager and DS9 posters in his basement. It's funny how "one instance" can become "99%" on THE CRAZY WORLD OF THE INTERNET
I meant "arbitrary" in the sense that there's no justification for it. And the reason I mentioned it in the first place is, as I said, that my online comic uses "long" title tags and I get emails from confused Firefox users all the time, asking if my site is broken. Four to five emails a week on this makes me wonder if maybe the bug isn't as tiny and little as you think!
I don't feel like I have a "it's not perfect so it sucks" attitude; I don't know, maybe I do. I just wish this one five-year-old bug would be fixed, because it's doing things that I don't want, and that a lot of my readers apparently don't want either.
And I should clarify that I didn't say "Mozilla sucks", I said that I like Mozilla, but they really need to fix bugs like this that have allowed to linger. It's easily visible to the end user, and little things like this where it just doesn't work as people expect make it appear like it's not ready for prime time.
It's true there's workarounds, but they really should ship it out of the box. This bug has become something of a celebrated one for me: my online comic does use long title tags, and I get emails from confused Firefox users all the time. I point them to that patch on my site too.
However, I can't believe that Opera would let a user-interface bug like this linger for half a decade - they're very fast in responding to bugs and to user complaints. I read over the arguing back and forth about standards on the bug report and feel bad, because nothing is being done, and it seems nothing is ever going to be done.
Finally, the argument of "if you don't like it, fix it yourself" doesn't apply here: it's been fixed in several different ways by several different people, and these patches never get folded into the releases.
Yeah man, Livejournal's search is awful. I find even searching my own entries is awkward, and based off of that experience I've never tried to search the journals of others. COME ON LIVEJOURNAL, PICK UP THE PACE
Yeah, it's weird what's being considered a blog. My comic ( http://www.qwantz.com/ ) is listed, and I would be the first to argue that there is a difference between a daily comic and a weblog.
I think what people would want more is a way to exclude blogs from regular Google searches - is this an option?
Oh man, did you guys also notice that Google has an "I'm feeling lucky" button which can be employed in instances when one is feeling lucky? I'm serious!
Why can't some programmers also learn some basic English skills... Like, how you only need one period to end a sentence... And if you always use three, it makes it really annoying to read... Also: I don't think the author get's the idea of correctly realizing verb tenses...
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Dude, it's not "inner mind power new age shit": he's so sped up by all those cups of coffee that he now moves as fast as the Flash. That's why everything is in slow motion, that's why they show him zipping around saving everyone from a fire.
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I second this! I also wrote the comic though so my opinion is BIASED.
I used to work with/under Norm (he was my boss) and he's a great guy! When I worked with him he wasn't a Keeper of the Key but he was still pretty cool
Hey, I've actually done a comic on this subject! I'm firmly in the "I'd rather you have a cool email address then a suck-up one" camp.
That is the best description for a bad comic I've seen in a while. Nice!
Dude everyone's gonna choose Astronaut
Hey, how do you get the frozen crunchberries out of the Mastodon wall in Kate Walker II? I am stuck.
Hi Randall!
Right. You have a source for that? The closest I've seen is a report about a guy arrested for sex crimes who also had all these Voyager and DS9 posters in his basement. It's funny how "one instance" can become "99%" on THE CRAZY WORLD OF THE INTERNET
Because the Firefox developers never play politics and ignore several working fixes for no good reason!
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4537
I meant "arbitrary" in the sense that there's no justification for it. And the reason I mentioned it in the first place is, as I said, that my online comic uses "long" title tags and I get emails from confused Firefox users all the time, asking if my site is broken. Four to five emails a week on this makes me wonder if maybe the bug isn't as tiny and little as you think!
I don't feel like I have a "it's not perfect so it sucks" attitude; I don't know, maybe I do. I just wish this one five-year-old bug would be fixed, because it's doing things that I don't want, and that a lot of my readers apparently don't want either.
And I should clarify that I didn't say "Mozilla sucks", I said that I like Mozilla, but they really need to fix bugs like this that have allowed to linger. It's easily visible to the end user, and little things like this where it just doesn't work as people expect make it appear like it's not ready for prime time.
I just read over what I wrote and I do sound a little bitter. I'm actually not in real life! Honest!
HONEST.
It's true there's workarounds, but they really should ship it out of the box. This bug has become something of a celebrated one for me: my online comic does use long title tags, and I get emails from confused Firefox users all the time. I point them to that patch on my site too.
However, I can't believe that Opera would let a user-interface bug like this linger for half a decade - they're very fast in responding to bugs and to user complaints. I read over the arguing back and forth about standards on the bug report and feel bad, because nothing is being done, and it seems nothing is ever going to be done.
Finally, the argument of "if you don't like it, fix it yourself" doesn't apply here: it's been fixed in several different ways by several different people, and these patches never get folded into the releases.
And the truncating title text bug that arbitrarily drops information from websites still hasn't been fixed. It's now five years old! Hooray!
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4537
I think Moz is a great project, but I use Opera because things like this are allowed to linger for um, half a decade, instead of being fixed.
Hah, thanks man! But, I believe I'm also the top hit for "robot erotica", so perhaps there was still hope!
Yeah man, Livejournal's search is awful. I find even searching my own entries is awkward, and based off of that experience I've never tried to search the journals of others. COME ON LIVEJOURNAL, PICK UP THE PACE
Hah, oh God. Worst word ever!
Yeah, it's weird what's being considered a blog. My comic ( http://www.qwantz.com/ ) is listed, and I would be the first to argue that there is a difference between a daily comic and a weblog.
I think what people would want more is a way to exclude blogs from regular Google searches - is this an option?
Oh man, did you guys also notice that Google has an "I'm feeling lucky" button which can be employed in instances when one is feeling lucky? I'm serious!
Hey man! It's me, Ryan, from the internet!
Will they finally fix the title-tag bug that has been an issue in the browser for five years?
Why can't some programmers also learn some basic English skills... Like, how you only need one period to end a sentence... And if you always use three, it makes it really annoying to read... Also: I don't think the author get's the idea of correctly realizing verb tenses...
Good god, he also consistently misuses "it's", often in a series of three at a time.
Its really annoying.
Macaulay Culkin wasn't in the third Home Alone movie.
Dude, it's not "inner mind power new age shit": he's so sped up by all those cups of coffee that he now moves as fast as the Flash. That's why everything is in slow motion, that's why they show him zipping around saving everyone from a fire.
Super powers!
Oops: somebody spends too much time on UBB!