Shouldn't that be Yep it certainly is, as they compensate for the font size by setting it bigger by default
I said yep, it certainly is. Did you mean to say isn't?
This is DEFINITELY a bug of some sort, but this doesn't happen on all pages, even on all pages on certain sites. It's really very weird and frustrating.
Note: I just tried this with Safari (also renders via WebKit) and it does NOT have the same problem. Truly bizarre.
Put a drivein movie screen where it used to be, then project a picture of the image of the Old Man onto it, et voila! C'est magnifique! C'est tres jolie!
> "Will Chrome mature to have a nice system of plugins to match the advantages of Firefox before Firefox rearchitects this very low level code?"
Chrome already has plugin support well along in development.
And your wondering if a complete top to bottom rewrite of the stinking pile of shit codebase that is Firefox is going to arrive sooner?
Yes, it's got plugin _support_, but notice I said 'a nice system of plugins' - that is quite different. Having the capability to use plugins with very few plugins (and no _mature_ plugins) is another situation altogether. I would say only a few dozen particular plugins are critical to cover the majority of needs, though, so it shouldn't be that hard, compared to fixing FF.
Will Chrome mature to have a nice system of plugins to match the advantages of Firefox before Firefox rearchitects this very low level code?
I sometimes wonder about the FF devs - I've been wondering about the lack of a multi-threaded (at least) UI for a few years now. That project kept getting put off and put off until there was too much code to change easily. Only now that a real competitor comes along do they bother with the obvious thing that should've been put in from the start. Do FF devs not actually USE FF? Or do they not browse sites with Flash apps that go out of control and make the browser completely unresponsive? I find that hard to believe.
Whatever. At least it'll finally happen. One wonders how many people will have switched over to Chrome by the time they get this out the door, though.
COBOL programmers who were maintaining applications on a mainframe were no longer tied to an 8-color terminal connected at 9600 baud, or by using a terminal-emulation program that was just as bad.
Indeed. In much the same vein, I hope that gcc will some day include support for AppleBASIC.
"Micro Focus Net Express® is the market-leading COBOL development environment"
So, a company that should've died off in the nineties is being bought by a company that noone has ever heard of that should've died off in the eighties. Weird.
The end of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, etc. Will they finally come to value free speech? I've heard (though not confirmed) that parts of The 700 Club are blacked out in Canada due to hate speech laws. True?
That makes FireFox only check for updates when you trigger it, and, if it finds an update, gives you the option of installing it.
*smack!*
Don't DO that.
If someone doesn't know how to turn off automatic updates, that means they're ignorant enough to be in the prime demographic of people who NEED to have automatic updates! A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It's people like you that have helped IE6 stay around way past its expiration date. Cut that out.
As of today, IE6 still has significant market penetration. My guess is that corporate users keep that number high.
Also realize that there are still significant numbers of people on older Windows machines using such classics as Windows 95/98/ME, and Windows 2000, all of which cannot be upgraded beyond IE6. For them, they have to switch to a non-IE browser.
If your old Windows box can't handle IE8 OR the latest Firefox due to resource issues, I suggest trying K-Meleon or Opera. (You know, aside from upgrading the hardware, which many people can't afford to do.)
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"Removing something from the Internet is like peeing in a pool. Once it's in there, it's IN there."
-from some sitcom back in the day
Try www.tejat.net for even more hilarity. No wonder this muppet doesn't have to cater for IE.
Whadda ya mean? I ran a check on that site:
"This document was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Strict!"
That's great! :)
Of course, I've also been incredibly lucky in that I don't have to support IE
I just clicked on your 'Homepage' link, and I gotta tell ya - your site looks like it would work _perfectly_ in every version of IE ever made.
Well done!
Shouldn't that be Yep it certainly is, as they compensate for the font size by setting it bigger by default
I said yep, it certainly is. Did you mean to say isn't?
This is DEFINITELY a bug of some sort, but this doesn't happen on all pages, even on all pages on certain sites. It's really very weird and frustrating.
Note: I just tried this with Safari (also renders via WebKit) and it does NOT have the same problem. Truly bizarre.
A: Yep, it certainly is.
But since a nanorod is only a unit of length and doesn't give a width or depth, we can't really figure out how many nanorods to the cubic cm.
Or how many nanorods to the hogshead, dagnabit!
Streaming...buffering...buffering...video. Ugh.
Put a drivein movie screen where it used to be, then project a picture of the image of the Old Man onto it, et voila! C'est magnifique! C'est tres jolie!
A sizeable chunk of the core Mozilla developers don't use Firefox. They use the superior SeaMonkey.
Does Seamonkey have a multi-threaded UI? If not, same problem.
> "Will Chrome mature to have a nice system of plugins to match the advantages of Firefox before Firefox rearchitects this very low level code?"
Chrome already has plugin support well along in development.
And your wondering if a complete top to bottom rewrite of the stinking pile of shit codebase that is Firefox is going to arrive sooner?
Yes, it's got plugin _support_, but notice I said 'a nice system of plugins' - that is quite different. Having the capability to use plugins with very few plugins (and no _mature_ plugins) is another situation altogether. I would say only a few dozen particular plugins are critical to cover the majority of needs, though, so it shouldn't be that hard, compared to fixing FF.
Will Chrome mature to have a nice system of plugins to match the advantages of Firefox before Firefox rearchitects this very low level code?
I sometimes wonder about the FF devs - I've been wondering about the lack of a multi-threaded (at least) UI for a few years now. That project kept getting put off and put off until there was too much code to change easily. Only now that a real competitor comes along do they bother with the obvious thing that should've been put in from the start. Do FF devs not actually USE FF? Or do they not browse sites with Flash apps that go out of control and make the browser completely unresponsive? I find that hard to believe.
Whatever. At least it'll finally happen. One wonders how many people will have switched over to Chrome by the time they get this out the door, though.
I guess the Hurd has a chance to beat Duke Nukem Forever to 1.0, after all! Who woulda thunk it?
I thought I had 30 seconds until it started shooting! Damned lying ED.
Geez, it's just a beta - don't be so picky! That's why we loaded it with phosphorous rounds instead of exploding rounds. For safety.
> You have 30 seconds to comply.
Plenty of time to reach the stairwell!
It's not ED-209 you have to outrun - it's the bullets.
You have 30 seconds to comply.
<i>Just because you haven't heard of Micro Focus does not mean "noone" has.</i>
Just because you're old, doesn't mean you get the joke. Welcome to the Internet.
Yeah, you didn't learn development during the 90s. All COBOL, all Micro Focus.
You're right, I learned it in the 80s with AppleBASIC, FORTRAN and Turbo Pascal. COBOL smelled funny even then.
COBOL programmers who were maintaining applications on a mainframe were no longer tied to an 8-color terminal connected at 9600 baud, or by using a terminal-emulation program that was just as bad.
Indeed. In much the same vein, I hope that gcc will some day include support for AppleBASIC.
Great acquisition, Micro Focus. Are you going after Norton next?
I read somewhere that they're going after Beagle Brothers.
"Micro Focus Net Express® is the market-leading COBOL development environment"
So, a company that should've died off in the nineties is being bought by a company that noone has ever heard of that should've died off in the eighties. Weird.
The end of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, etc. Will they finally come to value free speech? I've heard (though not confirmed) that parts of The 700 Club are blacked out in Canada due to hate speech laws. True?
I'll take that unused fiber stuff of your hands. I'll even haul it away at NO CHARGE TO YOU! :)
Will it run Ubuntu? :)
That makes FireFox only check for updates when you trigger it, and, if it finds an update, gives you the option of installing it.
*smack!*
Don't DO that.
If someone doesn't know how to turn off automatic updates, that means they're ignorant enough to be in the prime demographic of people who NEED to have automatic updates! A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It's people like you that have helped IE6 stay around way past its expiration date. Cut that out.
As of today, IE6 still has significant market penetration. My guess is that corporate users keep that number high.
Also realize that there are still significant numbers of people on older Windows machines using such classics as Windows 95/98/ME, and Windows 2000, all of which cannot be upgraded beyond IE6. For them, they have to switch to a non-IE browser.
If your old Windows box can't handle IE8 OR the latest Firefox due to resource issues, I suggest trying K-Meleon or Opera. (You know, aside from upgrading the hardware, which many people can't afford to do.)