That's thing, it wouldn't be very easy. The legal and computing infrastructure that Mozilla provides is quite extensive, and the SeaMonkey team is rather small and resource constrained.
Konqueror still uses KHTML by default, and it is still in active development (and it has pulled some stuff back in from Webkit), although there is increasing momentum for switching the default to the Webkit Kpart (built on the Webkit that is now part of QT).
>I suppose one of those slots could have gone to seamonkey, but as a browser it's identical to firefox so there's not much point.
No, the SeaMonkey browser is not "identical to Firefox". SeaMonkey has a sidebar and a <link> bar built-in, the URL bar and search bar are one and the same, they haven't combined the reload and stop buttons, and there are more options without going to about:config (and the options are better laid out). Until about FF3, it was more stable too, but FF finally caught up.
SeaMonkey can't be on the ballot because there is a one browser per vendor policy, and Mozilla counts as SeaMonkey's vendor. Netscape is out because AOL doesn't actively offer it anymore. Stupid policies, but there you have it.
I thought the third one was taken back in time to serve as a base in an ancient war, and that the fourth was destroyed, with only the fifth (and last) being put to use.
Gallium isn't ready yet, but for the classic stack it depends on which card you are talking about. Intel is OSS only, and works fine (discounting GMA500, which isn't really theirs), and a great many ATI cards (r100-r500) work just fine with full 3D on the OSS stack. Even r600/r700 is pretty good these days (for example, ioquake3 apparently works fine on r700 aka 4000 series).
>Yeah, but anyone using OpenGL with X is going to be using either the Nvidia proprietary drivers or ATI proprietary drivers.
I'm not. I use Intel drivers right now, and before that I was using ATI OSS drivers, and sometime this year (hopefully) I will be using ATI OSS drivers again (probably with a 5000 series). I know of plenty of other people that are using OSS 3D drivers.
Also, Gallium3D should ultimately help performance a lot.
What do you mean? FB apps don't look like anything except items in your news feed, and the ads certainly don't look like that. I have an idea that maybe a long time ago FB apps where in little boxes on the side of your screen (kind of like the ads are), but that was a long time and several redesigns ago
But IE7 started shrinking fast almost as soon as IE8 came out.Those people who where willing and able to move to IE7 are apparently are willing and able to move to IE8.
Even ATI hasn't given out the specs for the Radeon video decoder hardware. This is because they legally cannot give out those specs due to patent licensing issues. If you want fully HW accelerated video on Linux you use fglrx (actually I don't know if this is fully enabled yet) or you reverse engineer the methods for using the HW decoders.
>Why not just use one of the ones that's twenty years old?... Are the video formats from the late eighties really all deficient in some important way? Yes, they suck. Many of the improvements one might make to them to make them not suck would be the same patented techniques used by modern codecs.
Oh, I see. I never really paid attention to the "cached" section, and I was thinking more of desktop usage, rather than server. Although I do have about a gig of cached stuff right now.
>My Linux boxes use ALL the memory available even if I do not run many applications on it.
Really? Is that a Gnome and/or KDE thing (seems like that would be odd)? I only have 188MB out of 4GB free, but that has a lot to do with having way too many tabs open in 2 Firefox instances and 1 Mozilla instance. When I start up and it's just Awesome WM and my basic programs, memory usage is very low
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>seaMonkey could solve this problem quite easily
That's thing, it wouldn't be very easy. The legal and computing infrastructure that Mozilla provides is quite extensive, and the SeaMonkey team is rather small and resource constrained.
>crap that few will notice and fewer will care about
not my problem
>from your description it sounds like the entirety of the changes took 30 minutes of hacking and configuration edits.
Hmm, no, not really
Konqueror still uses KHTML by default, and it is still in active development (and it has pulled some stuff back in from Webkit), although there is increasing momentum for switching the default to the Webkit Kpart (built on the Webkit that is now part of QT).
>I suppose one of those slots could have gone to seamonkey, but as a browser it's identical to firefox so there's not much point.
No, the SeaMonkey browser is not "identical to Firefox". SeaMonkey has a sidebar and a <link> bar built-in, the URL bar and search bar are one and the same, they haven't combined the reload and stop buttons, and there are more options without going to about:config (and the options are better laid out). Until about FF3, it was more stable too, but FF finally caught up.
SeaMonkey can't be on the ballot because there is a one browser per vendor policy, and Mozilla counts as SeaMonkey's vendor. Netscape is out because AOL doesn't actively offer it anymore. Stupid policies, but there you have it.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/seamonkey/archives/2010/03/see_no_monkey_d.html
It's kind of like Make, but with a lot more XML
I thought the third one was taken back in time to serve as a base in an ancient war, and that the fourth was destroyed, with only the fifth (and last) being put to use.
>Direct3D is already cross-platform: Windows, Xbox 360, Zune, Windows Phone 7 Series.
Direct3D is already cross-platform: Windows kernel, Windows kernel, Windows kernel, Windows kernel
That doesn't sound that convincing, somehow
Gallium isn't ready yet, but for the classic stack it depends on which card you are talking about. Intel is OSS only, and works fine (discounting GMA500, which isn't really theirs), and a great many ATI cards (r100-r500) work just fine with full 3D on the OSS stack. Even r600/r700 is pretty good these days (for example, ioquake3 apparently works fine on r700 aka 4000 series).
>Yeah, but anyone using OpenGL with X is going to be using either the Nvidia proprietary drivers or ATI proprietary drivers.
I'm not. I use Intel drivers right now, and before that I was using ATI OSS drivers, and sometime this year (hopefully) I will be using ATI OSS drivers again (probably with a 5000 series). I know of plenty of other people that are using OSS 3D drivers.
Also, Gallium3D should ultimately help performance a lot.
Mesa is how you get hardware acceleration in Linux.
>possibly making MS provide a better option for updates rather than via an activex website.
Windows has had an application for updates for a long time now.
You're the only one who does. You'll have to make do with XHTML5
What do you mean? FB apps don't look like anything except items in your news feed, and the ads certainly don't look like that. I have an idea that maybe a long time ago FB apps where in little boxes on the side of your screen (kind of like the ads are), but that was a long time and several redesigns ago
Oops, I see what you mean now. I didn't even see the parent the first time.
RF keyboards and mice have lag too. And I suspect the lag is not intrinsic in BT, since it seems to work just fine in for the PS3 and Wii
I have a 802.11g network, and a Bluetooth headset. The BT works fine.
But IE7 started shrinking fast almost as soon as IE8 came out.Those people who where willing and able to move to IE7 are apparently are willing and able to move to IE8.
>AIUI, my n900 has a DSP on the SOC which is used for MPEG4 stuff, but could just as well be used to accelerate other codecs
see also: http://www.schleef.org/blog/2009/11/11/theora-on-ti-c64x-dsp-and-omap3/
>So your comment is nothing but yet another statement of politics over usability.
Yes, yes it is. That is the point.
Even ATI hasn't given out the specs for the Radeon video decoder hardware. This is because they legally cannot give out those specs due to patent licensing issues. If you want fully HW accelerated video on Linux you use fglrx (actually I don't know if this is fully enabled yet) or you reverse engineer the methods for using the HW decoders.
>They should just use the OS codec support and forget about this battle.
Yes, and Stallman should have just put up with the printer problems and gone about his work as usual.
>Why not just use one of the ones that's twenty years old? ... Are the video formats from the late eighties really all deficient in some important way?
Yes, they suck. Many of the improvements one might make to them to make them not suck would be the same patented techniques used by modern codecs.
Oh, I see. I never really paid attention to the "cached" section, and I was thinking more of desktop usage, rather than server. Although I do have about a gig of cached stuff right now.
>My Linux boxes use ALL the memory available even if I do not run many applications on it.
Really? Is that a Gnome and/or KDE thing (seems like that would be odd)? I only have 188MB out of 4GB free, but that has a lot to do with having way too many tabs open in 2 Firefox instances and 1 Mozilla instance. When I start up and it's just Awesome WM and my basic programs, memory usage is very low
I'm fairly certain that I don't care whether it is "proprietary" or "patent encumbered". Really, for me, "patent encumbered" is plenty proprietary.