User: -deviance-

Re:Firefox vs. IE, missing features...

On: Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE

>> * Changing the temporary cache path?
>
> Personally, I don't see any real reason for this.
> But there may be some.

synchronised backups on a windows 2000 domain? by default firefox stores its cache in the user profile... backing this up is not desirable!

Re:Automated Upgrading

On: Critical Mozilla, Thunderbird Vulnerabilities

There are other minor problems (such as placement of Firefox cache in Application Data instead of Local Settings\Application Data, causing the entire cache to be synchronized with the domain server on logon and logoff)

this caused a problem here at my work, discovered when i noticed a huge delay in the synchronizing. you can edit a preference for this, in the user.prefs file within your profiles. this would have to be created and pushed across the network for all users though...

user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory", "C:\TEMP\Firefox");

Re:some of both

On: CSS for the LDP?

Doing this makes the pages still viewable in old browsers, or limited browsers, but also makes it a nicer experience in newer browsers

and also adds markup cruft which can both add to the size of the downloaded page and to the complexity of the markup.

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>
content
<td>
<tr>
<table>

vs

<div id="box">
content
</div>

html tables were designed to present tabular data, not for creating page layouts.

Re:IE works just fine

On: CSS for the LDP?

The latest patch brings you up to 6.0. So if you're not keeping up with patches then you really have no place to bitch

but IE6 does not correctly interpret the css box model, perhaps the most fundamental aspect of visual formatting in css, unless the DOCTYPE is declared XHTML. it defaults to the same broken rendering IE5 suffers from if not.

this is certainly enough for me to keep bitching.

Re:*cough*yeahright.

On: EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially

Maybe it'll even try to settle by again offering to install Microsoft software in schools for free

i'd assume the EU would surely see that as further evidence of monopolistic behaviour. after all, once you've locked the schools in...