IE 6 has unique CSS layout issue, both bugs and less tolerant reactions to dodgy things in your CSS. There are some standard/recommended web design practices which tend to cause IE 6 rendering failures.
Not that I'm recommending using or supporting IE6, but I've found that if you use a strict DTD, most of the major layout issues in IE6 go away magically. The box model is calculated correctly, for instance, and that, for me, was the biggie, as I don't have to wrap things in divs just to be able to specify widths *and* use margin/padding/borders. What a pain in the butt that used to be.
Sure is _stupid_ to have to wrap form elements inside div/p tags, though. *sigh*
Gimme a break. *Every* JVM company out there claims to have the best performance. Probably something to do with on the fly optimization of JITted code.
What, we've exhausted the marketability of the buzzword nano and have stepped it up to pico? Somehow I doubt that regular satellites mass 10^12 kilograms.
It's arguments like these that make me wish for a LLVM/JIT version of D that I could use instead of PHP. And then just compile the thing if I needed soopa-doopa performance.
OR that REBOL had developed into a big open source platform.
*sigh*
The fights between C++/C#/Java/JavaScript fanatics are fights about the different implementations/targets of the same obsolete programming syntax structures, and don't do anyone any good.
I wouldn't be so sure about this. A majority of my users are really "casuals", not HoMM nerds.
A 'casual' HoMM nerd is... still a nerd, no matter how you slice it. An adult nerd who played HoMM as a college student is still a nerd. That's just the way it goes. It's not an insult, just an observation. Embrace the nerdiness!
Strangely, now that I no longer browse Slashdot with Firefox, Firefox behaves significantly better than it has been. Apparently, one of the absolute worst sites for the overall performance of Firefox is this one.
Do a validation test on this page. I just got: 104 Errors, 2 warning(s)
*whew*
I'd get fucking FIRED if I put out that kind of crap at work.
Sounds like Facebook rewrote PHP and then invited PHP core developers to adopt it as their core development platform? I can't imagine that went over all that well... probably hit a number of them in the pride region. And the article said it is to be released as open source, but failed to mention the license. Will this be some sort of twisted "FriendFace Public License" or some perversion?
You can only get the new engine if you get to level 100 in Vampire Wars, or if you get 10 windmills and adopt a stray black kitten in Farmville.
I'd like to point out that long before xkcd there was userfriendly, and that in my circle we still like to and this sort of joke by saying "magnets" and giggle.
The best part of that comic is the Amiga calendar on the wall behind them.:)
Precious = Rare. Cease being Rare = Cease being precious.
Not necessarily. Air is plentiful, yet each of us can't live without a constant supply of it. It depends on what precious thing you're talking about. Not that this means your argument is wrong, just your analogy.:)
I'm reminded of a sci-fi book I read a few years ago (I _wish_ I could remember the author or title!) where a man wants to bring the riches of the astroid belt to earth, but needs to develop technology to bring the transportation cost down enough to make it worthwhile. He hires a genius to figure that problem out, and the method the genius comes up with to make the transportation cheap results in materials so much better what what would be mined from the asteroids worthless in comparison. The technologies developed to get us living and working in space and on other planets/moons will almost certainly result in technologies that will make mining asteroids pointless, but it will be enough motivation to GET us there.
The biggest longterm hurdles I see are the need to develop medical technology that keeps us from astrophying in microgravity and protection from radiation that we are protected from by Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field. If those can be solved, we won't need to live on a planet or moon's surface, but can live anywhere. These technologies will come only from our continued manned space programs.
Why stop there? Let's get proactive and kill off support for IE9, because let's face it, it's not going to support the standards we want either. We all know it, or should by this time. The IE team is like Lucy with the football, and we've all been Charlie Brown for way too long.
This site continues to show, like the parent you responded to how come they never see the storm behind Apple that is a Cash Cow. 3rd party opportunities for customization is high.
What I've figured out after checking out the actual tech specs on Apple's site is that it won't do HD video - even 720p. The panel is 1024x768. They got the vertical resolution fine, but it's 20% too narrow to be 720p widescreen, which even YouTube and Hulu do now. What a missed opportunity! If they had made it 720p capable and added a microSD slot, I might've actually bought an Apple product. *shrug* No third-party is going to make it show more pixels than it has available.
I am still very impressed by the quality of the display (an LED-backlit *IPS* panel?!), and the price, however.
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IE 6 has unique CSS layout issue, both bugs and less tolerant reactions to dodgy things in your CSS. There are some standard/recommended web design practices which tend to cause IE 6 rendering failures.
Not that I'm recommending using or supporting IE6, but I've found that if you use a strict DTD, most of the major layout issues in IE6 go away magically. The box model is calculated correctly, for instance, and that, for me, was the biggie, as I don't have to wrap things in divs just to be able to specify widths *and* use margin/padding/borders. What a pain in the butt that used to be.
Sure is _stupid_ to have to wrap form elements inside div/p tags, though. *sigh*
Back in my day, manufacturers used to slap a turbo button on the front of the case.
And we liked it that way.
There's an app for that.
Now get off my lawn!
And for that.
Gimme a break. *Every* JVM company out there claims to have the best performance. Probably something to do with on the fly optimization of JITted code.
I don't believe the Dalvik _does_ the JIT.
Just think how much time he'd have gotten if they were *real* Ciscos!
the fact that Pluto undergoes significant seasonal cycles has been known for quite a while.
Yeah, don't mess with Pluto. She's been in a bad mood for awhile now. Must be that time of the orbit.
What, we've exhausted the marketability of the buzzword nano and have stepped it up to pico? Somehow I doubt that regular satellites mass 10^12 kilograms.
Small to the eXtreme!!!
Why not just embrace Common Lisp, then?
You can carve any other language out of it with reader macros, if you hate parentheses, or love curlies...
I was hoping for interrobangs...
It's arguments like these that make me wish for a LLVM/JIT version of D that I could use instead of PHP. And then just compile the thing if I needed soopa-doopa performance.
OR that REBOL had developed into a big open source platform.
*sigh*
The fights between C++/C#/Java/JavaScript fanatics are fights about the different implementations/targets of the same obsolete programming syntax structures, and don't do anyone any good.
I wouldn't be so sure about this. A majority of my users are really "casuals", not HoMM nerds.
A 'casual' HoMM nerd is ... still a nerd, no matter how you slice it. An adult nerd who played HoMM as a college student is still a nerd. That's just the way it goes. It's not an insult, just an observation. Embrace the nerdiness!
Strangely, now that I no longer browse Slashdot with Firefox, Firefox behaves significantly better than it has been. Apparently, one of the absolute worst sites for the overall performance of Firefox is this one.
Do a validation test on this page. I just got: 104 Errors, 2 warning(s)
*whew*
I'd get fucking FIRED if I put out that kind of crap at work.
> I run a website about the Heroes of Might and Magic game series
Okay...
> (very little "geek bias")
Ah. I think a "nerd bias" still impacts browser usage, though.
With Firefox's latest improvements, I am very eager to see what they can dish out in 3.7
You're going to have a long wait for 3.7, since it's been cancelled. :)
I'm looking for their 'out of process plugin' update to 3.6; that should take care of most of the Flash problem.
Exactly, I wouldn't worry too much about them. What worries me more is the Umbrella Corporation, and they're doing some serious shit on earth.
Yeah, but I hear they're about to go IPO...
I'm kinda concerned about Weyland-Yutani's business practices though
I dunno, their motto isn't all bad: "Do no evil. On Earth."
Sounds like Facebook rewrote PHP and then invited PHP core developers to adopt it as their core development platform? I can't imagine that went over all that well... probably hit a number of them in the pride region. And the article said it is to be released as open source, but failed to mention the license. Will this be some sort of twisted "FriendFace Public License" or some perversion?
You can only get the new engine if you get to level 100 in Vampire Wars, or if you get 10 windmills and adopt a stray black kitten in Farmville.
I'd like to point out that long before xkcd there was userfriendly, and that in my circle we still like to and this sort of joke by saying "magnets" and giggle.
The best part of that comic is the Amiga calendar on the wall behind them. :)
Machine code is for lazy developers. I develop my tubeapps on paper and I even built my own system of tubes to improve performance.
Mining? Be serious.
Helium-3, man, Helium-3. Go rent Moon. If it's worth inventing human clones, it's financially profitable.
Precious = Rare.
Cease being Rare = Cease being precious.
Not necessarily. Air is plentiful, yet each of us can't live without a constant supply of it. It depends on what precious thing you're talking about. Not that this means your argument is wrong, just your analogy. :)
I'm reminded of a sci-fi book I read a few years ago (I _wish_ I could remember the author or title!) where a man wants to bring the riches of the astroid belt to earth, but needs to develop technology to bring the transportation cost down enough to make it worthwhile. He hires a genius to figure that problem out, and the method the genius comes up with to make the transportation cheap results in materials so much better what what would be mined from the asteroids worthless in comparison. The technologies developed to get us living and working in space and on other planets/moons will almost certainly result in technologies that will make mining asteroids pointless, but it will be enough motivation to GET us there.
The biggest longterm hurdles I see are the need to develop medical technology that keeps us from astrophying in microgravity and protection from radiation that we are protected from by Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field. If those can be solved, we won't need to live on a planet or moon's surface, but can live anywhere. These technologies will come only from our continued manned space programs.
Now if only they'd kill off IE7 and 8 too.
Why stop there? Let's get proactive and kill off support for IE9, because let's face it, it's not going to support the standards we want either. We all know it, or should by this time. The IE team is like Lucy with the football, and we've all been Charlie Brown for way too long.
JWASM
JWASM is JaWa-asm, and is very useful for programming droids (the non-cellphone kind).
This site continues to show, like the parent you responded to how come they never see the storm behind Apple that is a Cash Cow. 3rd party opportunities for customization is high.
What I've figured out after checking out the actual tech specs on Apple's site is that it won't do HD video - even 720p. The panel is 1024x768. They got the vertical resolution fine, but it's 20% too narrow to be 720p widescreen, which even YouTube and Hulu do now. What a missed opportunity! If they had made it 720p capable and added a microSD slot, I might've actually bought an Apple product. *shrug* No third-party is going to make it show more pixels than it has available.
I am still very impressed by the quality of the display (an LED-backlit *IPS* panel?!), and the price, however.
no camera, no microphone, I don't see you ditching your iphone any time soon... or at least they haven't shown either up to now
Bluetooth headset eliminates the need for a microphone, so you could skype, I suppose.
BitNet, is that you? SENDFILE, please!
Except that Java is used by Facebook for their photo uploader so any Facebook user that uploads photos from in their browser needs Java.
Great, another reason to loathe Facebook. Like I needed another. *shrug*