As a web developer, I love this idea. I'd no longer have to keep 30 browsers installed on my system.
But as someone who sometimes uses lynx, or services like avantgo, I'm not so sure about it. It could mean that web designers will assume everyone has browsers that support graphics and all the fancy plugins. But it could also mean that web sites will be designed with content seperated from form. The later would mean BETTER support for text-only on low-end browsers.
This could be a good things, but it also could be a bad bad bad thing.
Upon reading this slashdot post, I thought: what? We need LESS govn't regulation.
The thing is, the govn't is the lesser of the two evils between it and corporations. It's just sad that sometimes the difference between govn't and corporations is so blurred.
Ralph Nader would support this idea, but will he ever get elected? probably not. The current government situation is way too corporatized to police corporations. It's a lot like a corrupt police force policing itself.
About the only thing I can think of for using MacOS with x86 is for cheap servers or something. The great thing about Apple doing both the OS and the hardware is the fact that they can tightly integrate them.
When a switch by Apple was made to USB, they made the switch both in hardward and in software at the same time thus making a smoother transition. Same goes for Firewire, etc.
Would MacOS on x86 REALLY make a better computer?
I doubt it.
Any user of photoshop/illustrator/etc will know how the tabbed palettes in these programs are different from other tab widgets. You can drag them from palette to palette, drag them out to give them their own palette. You can customize it based on which stuff you need handy and your idea of logical organization.
A suit over tabs in general would be silly, but looking at the screenshots at adobe's site, I think Macromedia's new program looks a lot like an adobe program.
Why do people think they need a camera with a cell phone? A game console with email? A frying pan with a built-in FM radio? What happens when your phone is still good but the camera doesn't capture enough pixels?
What we need is modular things that can be hooked together to perform special functions. It's better for a device to be specialized and do the job well rather than do everything and do it badly.
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They don't *have* to use JavaScript to do this. We all know that javascript is turned off on about 20% of peoples' machines because of popups, etc.
Why not install it on the server level so that it forwards using more standard, lower-level methods.
That is, if this were a good idea at all, which I doubt.
As a web developer, I love this idea. I'd no longer have to keep 30 browsers installed on my system.
But as someone who sometimes uses lynx, or services like avantgo, I'm not so sure about it. It could mean that web designers will assume everyone has browsers that support graphics and all the fancy plugins. But it could also mean that web sites will be designed with content seperated from form. The later would mean BETTER support for text-only on low-end browsers.
This could be a good things, but it also could be a bad bad bad thing.
2001-04-01 16:02:01
Lame lame lame lame lameness.
Upon reading this slashdot post, I thought:
what? We need LESS govn't regulation.
The thing is, the govn't is the lesser of the two evils between it and corporations. It's just sad that sometimes the difference between govn't and corporations is so blurred.
Ralph Nader would support this idea, but will he ever get elected? probably not. The current government situation is way too corporatized to police corporations. It's a lot like a corrupt police force policing itself.
Why wouldn't they grant this patent?
Crazier patents have been filed...
About the only thing I can think of for using MacOS with x86 is for cheap servers or something. The great thing about Apple doing both the OS and the hardware is the fact that they can tightly integrate them.
When a switch by Apple was made to USB, they made the switch both in hardward and in software at the same time thus making a smoother transition. Same goes for Firewire, etc.
Would MacOS on x86 REALLY make a better computer?
I doubt it.
Any user of photoshop/illustrator/etc will know how the tabbed palettes in these programs are different from other tab widgets. You can drag them from palette to palette, drag them out to give them their own palette. You can customize it based on which stuff you need handy and your idea of logical organization.
A suit over tabs in general would be silly, but looking at the screenshots at adobe's site, I think Macromedia's new program looks a lot like an adobe program.
Just my $0.02
Why do people think they need a camera with a cell phone? A game console with email? A frying pan with a built-in FM radio? What happens when your phone is still good but the camera doesn't capture enough pixels?
What we need is modular things that can be hooked together to perform special functions. It's better for a device to be specialized and do the job well rather than do everything and do it badly.