I'm not sure you're the right person I should ask all of these questions, but I'll take my chance anyway.
1. First of all, what is the difference between working at Slashdot before selling it to Andover and after that?
What has changed in your life, your work and what has changed at Slashdot? I'm asking you because i heard a lot of
people bitching about the way Slashdot works after it was sold to Andover. The problem you had on the 13th this month
almost speaks for itself.
2. Why do you generate those user signatures in every post, why don't you just keep it as a part of the message, at
the moment the message is submitted? I'm the kind of person who changes the signature very often, because I change
the mood very often, or I find cool things all the time and I want to share them and it kinda sucks to see that
changing your signature will affect all the comments you ever posted on/. I'm just wondering why you made it this
way, I would have never considered this option...
3. And the last, what do you think about PHP Nuke (I see it as a pale copy of Slash code), and how exactly does it
feel to see you own work copied, butchered and spread over the internet? Don't give me that "open source/feel free
to change" philosophy, I don't think it applies here.
I see now that somebody asked you the same question earlier, sorry for the redundancy.
Oh, yes, one more and I'm gone: why do you guys keep allowing these junk comments (like the ones concerning your
weight and smell and sexual preferences) on the site and why don't you just erase them?
OK, that's it, take care and and keep up the good work!
Sorry, you caught me in beligerent mode. I figured you were accusing one browser or the other of being broken because the images were different.
No problem, I know the mood, I understand, it's ok (grrrr... and you keep blaming women for the PMS...:-). And no, I'm not accusing any browser, I just feel sooooo happy I don't have to deal with them as a web designer, no more headaches for me.
As about standards... HTML 4.0 is already ancient, but even so, writing specifications and RFCs doesn't necessary make a standard out of it.
Do I really have to mention the width and height attributes of the TD tag (RFC 1942, 1996, HTML Tables) which are most of times _ignored_ by almost all the browsers (i guess no one needs names)? As far as I'm concerned, i never managed to make "TD height=40%" work on Netscape, and trust me, I 'tried good manners'.:-)
What people seem to have trouble understanding is that most sites that are "incompatible" with one browser or another are that way because of a _conscious decision_ on the part of the authors!
Does that mean that we have to steak to the 20th century standards that W3C has kindly provided and which (as I mentioned before) are randomly interpreted by browsers and sometimes ignored as if they never existed?
And I saw the elephant. Does that mean my browser "lost"?:)
Definitely. But so did my browser, that keeps showing me the happy cow. I guess we both make team with some losers.:-)
Ok, I get we made peace on this matter, hope to talk to you again sometime. And, oh, my first comment on this subject was also the first comment I posted on Slashdot ever. So... thanks for the spark, if it weren't for you, it would have probably been the last too.:-)
Take care and 'see' ya later,
b0nechina
PS (to the Slasdot authors that posted the latest poll) There is a spelling problem in the poll! Maybe you should consider writing "then x hours" with an "a" instead of the "e".:-)
You're welcome! --
b0nechina
Hey!
First of all, i'm not bitching (God forbid!) at all, i just wanted to give you an example about browser differences and just so happened someone showed me that web site a few days ago. I kinda found it pretty amusing and showed it to all my friends. Nevermind.
No. 2: I know what's the 'problem' with the stupid image, but thanks for the details.:-)
No. 3: I don't know what exactly you mean by 'content', but when i look at some website, i'd like too see it just the same no matter what browser i am using. Pictures included.
And, finally, to end this neverending story, one question: among HTML tags, JavaScript methods and sampling algorithms, where the hell is the standard anymore? No, wrong question: are there still standards?
PS. Oh, and Casey, my comment was supposed to be kinda fun, so loosen up a little, will ya, if we can't change anything about web browsers, at least we can joke about them.:-)
Take care,
b0nechina (you can call me china:-)
PS.(no. 2) Just curious: what did ya see, the cow or the dead elephant?:-)
Rrrright!
But still, i guess none of us would have spent so much time reading and posting on this subject if there were no _real_ problems with the web browsers.
And, by the way, check out this page, try to see it from both Netscape and MSIE and let's talk about 'malformed content' after, ok?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure you're the right person I should ask all of these questions, but I'll take my chance anyway.
1. First of all, what is the difference between working at Slashdot before selling it to Andover and after that?
What has changed in your life, your work and what has changed at Slashdot? I'm asking you because i heard a lot of people bitching about the way Slashdot works after it was sold to Andover. The problem you had on the 13th this month almost speaks for itself.
2. Why do you generate those user signatures in every post, why don't you just keep it as a part of the message, at the moment the message is submitted? I'm the kind of person who changes the signature very often, because I change the mood very often, or I find cool things all the time and I want to share them and it kinda sucks to see that changing your signature will affect all the comments you ever posted on
3. And the last, what do you think about PHP Nuke (I see it as a pale copy of Slash code), and how exactly does it feel to see you own work copied, butchered and spread over the internet? Don't give me that "open source/feel free to change" philosophy, I don't think it applies here.
I see now that somebody asked you the same question earlier, sorry for the redundancy.
Oh, yes, one more and I'm gone: why do you guys keep allowing these junk comments (like the ones concerning your weight and smell and sexual preferences) on the site and why don't you just erase them?
OK, that's it, take care and and keep up the good work!
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b0nechina
Sorry, you caught me in beligerent mode. I figured you were accusing one browser or the other of being broken because the images were different.
:-). And no, I'm not accusing any browser, I just feel sooooo happy I don't have to deal with them as a web designer, no more headaches for me.
:-)
:)
:-)
:-)
:-)
You're welcome!
No problem, I know the mood, I understand, it's ok (grrrr... and you keep blaming women for the PMS...
As about standards... HTML 4.0 is already ancient, but even so, writing specifications and RFCs doesn't necessary make a standard out of it.
Do I really have to mention the width and height attributes of the TD tag (RFC 1942, 1996, HTML Tables) which are most of times _ignored_ by almost all the browsers (i guess no one needs names)? As far as I'm concerned, i never managed to make "TD height=40%" work on Netscape, and trust me, I 'tried good manners'.
What people seem to have trouble understanding is that most sites that are "incompatible" with one browser or another are that way because of a _conscious decision_ on the part of the authors!
Does that mean that we have to steak to the 20th century standards that W3C has kindly provided and which (as I mentioned before) are randomly interpreted by browsers and sometimes ignored as if they never existed?
And I saw the elephant. Does that mean my browser "lost"?
Definitely. But so did my browser, that keeps showing me the happy cow. I guess we both make team with some losers.
Ok, I get we made peace on this matter, hope to talk to you again sometime. And, oh, my first comment on this subject was also the first comment I posted on Slashdot ever. So... thanks for the spark, if it weren't for you, it would have probably been the last too.
Take care and 'see' ya later,
b0nechina
PS (to the Slasdot authors that posted the latest poll) There is a spelling problem in the poll! Maybe you should consider writing "then x hours" with an "a" instead of the "e".
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b0nechina
Hey!
:-)
:-)
:-)
:-)
First of all, i'm not bitching (God forbid!) at all, i just wanted to give you an example about browser differences and just so happened someone showed me that web site a few days ago. I kinda found it pretty amusing and showed it to all my friends. Nevermind.
No. 2: I know what's the 'problem' with the stupid image, but thanks for the details.
No. 3: I don't know what exactly you mean by 'content', but when i look at some website, i'd like too see it just the same no matter what browser i am using. Pictures included. And, finally, to end this neverending story, one question: among HTML tags, JavaScript methods and sampling algorithms, where the hell is the standard anymore? No, wrong question: are there still standards?
PS. Oh, and Casey, my comment was supposed to be kinda fun, so loosen up a little, will ya, if we can't change anything about web browsers, at least we can joke about them.
Take care,
b0nechina (you can call me china
PS.(no. 2) Just curious: what did ya see, the cow or the dead elephant?
-- Curiosity skilled the cat.
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b0nechina
Rrrright!
But still, i guess none of us would have spent so much time reading and posting on this subject if there were no _real_ problems with the web browsers. And, by the way, check out this page, try to see it from both Netscape and MSIE and let's talk about 'malformed content' after, ok?
b0nechina
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b0nechina