A similar option is available in Mozilla for quite some time. For some reason I was *never* notified of an update being available. How should a normal user get to know about a new update like this one? And no, my father is not reading Slashdot on a regular basis.
Moreover, I suspect that - even if it should work now - you will just get a notification of an update with a download link, not an automatic update wizard.
Last time I tried this it just informed me about a new version being available. I cannot remember it giving me a dialog with an "update" button.
Did they change this behavior? Is there really an update wizard that automatically uninstalls the previous version and installs a new one? I must have missed it.
So when will Firefox get an option to perform automatic updates like e.g. Windows Update allows?
I cannot ask my father to uninstall his browser and reinstall a new one every so often. If Firefox wants to be accepted by the large crowd out there it definitely needs an automatic update.
Nope. FAT32 was introduced with the OSR2 version of Windows 95 (Windows 95b) that was only sold to OEMs, neither availabe as an update nor as a retail product.
In fact, even Windows for Workgroups 3.11, where a lot of Win95 core parts were first implemented, also had a fully 32-bit file system driver (vfat), although no FAT32.
Nope again. VFAT is a driver for providing long filename support to FAT16 and was provided with Windows 95 and Windows NT. WFW 3.11 did not allow long filenames.
Come on mister, you do not really want to annoy your customers, do you? It's CUSTOMERS. You depend on them. You don't want annoyed customers, you want happy customers. Repeat: You want happy customers.
Ads are ok if they are accepted. Banner ads are accepted. They achieve brand awareness. Accidental clicks (on pop-ups) are worthless, you want intentional clicks (if you want clicks at all).
I have no good feeling about Flash. The development of Flash is in the hands of one company, if I'm not mistaken. Flash sites today are much worse than the average HTML site I encounter.
Probably you like the freedom that Flash gives you. You (as a web designer) are able to control much more of the customer experience than (X)HTML/XML/CSS/XSLT allows you to do. Is this a good thing? From a web designer point of view maybe. Not from my view as a user. HTML is simple (you can express a lot of content with only about 15 different tags and attributes). Flash is difficult, you need a software to write it.
HTML is truely cross-platform and downwards compatible. A properly designed strict HTML 4.01/CSS2-Page will be displayed just fine in a proper HTML 2.0 Browser.
Sorry, Flash is not the future, it's like a look into the past. I know there are some advantages to Flash, but there are also some serious problems:
Client freedom: When is my Palm PDA going to support Flash? How are you going to fit a 300x200 pixel app on a 160x160 display?
Freedom of processing: Normally I can just cut and paste something from a website into a document. With Flash this normally does not work. I'm back to typing the text again. That's the past.
Similarity of user interface: Every damn stupid web site tries to implement its own great disfunctional scrollbars while my Mozilla scrollbars work perfectly.
No back button!
There are uses for Flash. If you want to do an interactive demo or something similar, it's great. In the absolut majority of cases Flash is just the designer's ego kicking the user's ass. Nothing else.
Not so sure about this. I tried it with you last sentence. On Palm and Dasher I needed about three minutes. Of course I'm a little bit more used to Graffitti, but I wouldn't consider me as an experienced graffitti user.
Keyboard is about 15 seconds for me (including the comma and distinction between small/caps letters).
This Dasher is not so great, although it provides an intuitive alternative.
But there's a difference to e-mail. The signal-to-noise ratio is much lower with Flash. Per day, I see about 5-10 bad (advertising, splash page) Flash animation versus about 0 good ones. I have only seen about 10-20 really useful Flash animations up to now.
With E-Mail it's about 50-50 at the moment. That is also not nice, but it is acceptable.
This is why people hate slash: The number of abuses exceeds the number of well-thought use by about a factor of 20.
Why do people persist in spreading this myth that the GPL forbids charging for programs? It does not, in fact, any license which does is NOT considered Free by the FSF and is not GPL compatible.
In fact the GPL makes charging for programs very difficult. Anyone who receives the program also receives the source code and may distribute modified versions of it without paying the original author. So if I charge for a software that is under the GPL anyone who buys a distribution of this software (e.g. a CD) would be able to distribute it for free.
Of course a real charge (that is significantly higher than the distribution cost) is not forbidden, but it won't be easy to get anyone to pay it.
Just for the record: The Bat! also allows this. You can turn off the simple built-in (not IE-borrowed) HTML-Viewer completely. The Bat! will extract all HTML tags from the code if necessary so that what you are viewing is just the plain text. You can still switch to the HTML view if you absolutely want to.
Of course The Bat! supports IMAP. Just select it in the account settings ("Account" - "Properties") on the "Transport" tab. There you can choose from POP3 and IMAP4.
This does not mean that the IMAP support is good. It just supports the POP3 style of polling. There is no way to control the folder structure from The Bat!. So I would not yet choose The Bat! if I'm looking for good IMAP support. But The Bat! has improved in the past, so I'm sure they are going to listen to what the users say. And this is definitely a large problem.
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And how exactly is this supposed to be funny or interesting? It's just a question of chance. What abould thinking of a search phrase that returns exactly 573 results?
Sorry, it may be nerd stuff and all that, but to me, frankly said, this sounds VERY boring.
No, the system won't incentivize people to share unbelievably massive amounts of data.
Though this is not the actual goal of the system there might be people who share large amounts of data in order to get a high score (and thus a high power to score other users down). I think one can assume that these people (who are already the backbone of any P2P network) are not really interested in abusing their power. And even if there are such abusive people:
1) One provider should only be able to score down a requester a limited number of points, probably 1.
2) If the system is abused despite this limitation, you just might invent some metamod-lookalike. A lot of users could try to evaluate the punishments and thus identify abusers. I admit, it get's a bit difficult here.
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In Germany the local Spread firefox campaign launched an ad on 12/02/2004 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the most respectable newspapers in Germany.
"The browser statistics below were adjusted in July 2005 to reflect page views instead of visits."
So it's not an actual decline, just that Firefox users seem to generate a bit more "visits" than "page views". Dunno why this is the case
Nope. JavaScript was introduced with Navigator 2.0, maybe not on every platform. See the Navigator 2.0 (Windows) release notes. Wikipedia is obviously wrong on this.
I assume this will mean we will have to deal with another Postman disaster?
Moreover, I suspect that - even if it should work now - you will just get a notification of an update with a download link, not an automatic update wizard.
Did they change this behavior? Is there really an update wizard that automatically uninstalls the previous version and installs a new one? I must have missed it.
I cannot ask my father to uninstall his browser and reinstall a new one every so often. If Firefox wants to be accepted by the large crowd out there it definitely needs an automatic update.
See this bit of information.
Nope. FAT32 was introduced with the OSR2 version of Windows 95 (Windows 95b) that was only sold to OEMs, neither availabe as an update nor as a retail product.
Nope again. VFAT is a driver for providing long filename support to FAT16 and was provided with Windows 95 and Windows NT. WFW 3.11 did not allow long filenames.
As opposed to whores?
Ads are ok if they are accepted. Banner ads are accepted. They achieve brand awareness. Accidental clicks (on pop-ups) are worthless, you want intentional clicks (if you want clicks at all).
Probably you like the freedom that Flash gives you. You (as a web designer) are able to control much more of the customer experience than (X)HTML/XML/CSS/XSLT allows you to do. Is this a good thing? From a web designer point of view maybe. Not from my view as a user. HTML is simple (you can express a lot of content with only about 15 different tags and attributes). Flash is difficult, you need a software to write it.
HTML is truely cross-platform and downwards compatible. A properly designed strict HTML 4.01/CSS2-Page will be displayed just fine in a proper HTML 2.0 Browser.
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Client freedom: When is my Palm PDA going to support Flash? How are you going to fit a 300x200 pixel app on a 160x160 display?
Freedom of processing: Normally I can just cut and paste something from a website into a document. With Flash this normally does not work. I'm back to typing the text again. That's the past.
Similarity of user interface: Every damn stupid web site tries to implement its own great disfunctional scrollbars while my Mozilla scrollbars work perfectly.
No back button!
There are uses for Flash. If you want to do an interactive demo or something similar, it's great. In the absolut majority of cases Flash is just the designer's ego kicking the user's ass. Nothing else.
Arthur
However, Microsoft OS's (even the more recent ones like Win2K) rank significantly lower than Open Source OS's.
This could be because the linked report is dated "19 March - 21 April, 2001". This is not news, it's olds.
Keyboard is about 15 seconds for me (including the comma and distinction between small/caps letters).
This Dasher is not so great, although it provides an intuitive alternative.
Important: 50Hz interlaced, so in fact you only have real 25 Hz. There's about 5% loss at every border of the screen. Just bad.
With E-Mail it's about 50-50 at the moment. That is also not nice, but it is acceptable.
This is why people hate slash: The number of abuses exceeds the number of well-thought use by about a factor of 20.
In fact the GPL makes charging for programs very difficult. Anyone who receives the program also receives the source code and may distribute modified versions of it without paying the original author. So if I charge for a software that is under the GPL anyone who buys a distribution of this software (e.g. a CD) would be able to distribute it for free.
Of course a real charge (that is significantly higher than the distribution cost) is not forbidden, but it won't be easy to get anyone to pay it.
Just for the record: The Bat! also allows this. You can turn off the simple built-in (not IE-borrowed) HTML-Viewer completely. The Bat! will extract all HTML tags from the code if necessary so that what you are viewing is just the plain text. You can still switch to the HTML view if you absolutely want to.
This does not mean that the IMAP support is good. It just supports the POP3 style of polling. There is no way to control the folder structure from The Bat!. So I would not yet choose The Bat! if I'm looking for good IMAP support. But The Bat! has improved in the past, so I'm sure they are going to listen to what the users say. And this is definitely a large problem.
Sorry, it may be nerd stuff and all that, but to me, frankly said, this sounds VERY boring.
Slashdot does indeed use the title tag. Some small code extract from the current article page:
img SRC="//images.slashdot.org/title.gif" WIDTH="275" HEIGHT="72" ALT="Welcome to Slashdot" TITLE="Welcome to Slashdot" BORDER="0"
However they don't use it everywhere where it would be appropriate.
Microsoft Germany spokesman Boris Schneider-Johne has denied (apologies for the german link) to Heise that Microsoft is working on such a thing.
Though this is not the actual goal of the system there might be people who share large amounts of data in order to get a high score (and thus a high power to score other users down). I think one can assume that these people (who are already the backbone of any P2P network) are not really interested in abusing their power. And even if there are such abusive people:
1) One provider should only be able to score down a requester a limited number of points, probably 1.
2) If the system is abused despite this limitation, you just might invent some metamod-lookalike. A lot of users could try to evaluate the punishments and thus identify abusers. I admit, it get's a bit difficult here.
Arthur