Actually, mozilla does not depend on gtk... there are fairly functional qt and pure xlib versions. In addition to which, does Konqueror run on useful things like OS2?
The download window code has indeed been changed o allow users to click on a button in the download window to open the filemanager to wherever they've just saved their download. There is also a nice checkbox in the download window to turn off this behavior. As for a minimize button, it's actually kind hard. Needs creation of a new window type in XP Toolkit (progress windows -- minimizable, unclosable, non-transient). Pet bug of all the UI spec people and a number of users. Being worked on.
You can turn on the Emacs key stuff on windows using some hidden prefs. But yes, C-home does not work to go to beginning of first line. There is a bug on that that I can't find right now because Bugzilla is doing its daily "I'll be down around 5am EST" thing.
The child window thing is linux-only as far as I know and is driving everyone insane. Top minds are working on it -- it's a strange problem with focus not being set properly. If it is not linux-only (you are seeing it on Windows) please mail me at bz@mit.edu and let me know. That would be much appreciated.
It does not. And probably will not till mozilla 1.0 or later... See the LDAP support tracking bug and the bugs that are blocking it for more details on the status of things.... I don't use LDAP, so I can't tell you exactly how far along we are based on the info in those bugs.
Why? Because on Linux there is no nice standard for a way to interface to external mail apps. Every app has its own happy way to have a mail address passed to it.
That said, you are not the only one who wants this functionality. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11459.
The discussion on that bug includes a way to fix it using Protozoilla. This fix is currently being considered for inclusion in the main source tree.
That sounds like you have the build with the completely broken color preferences. That bug was present in builds for about 12 hours one day.... I would suggest getting a fresh build once the Slashdotting subsides and making sure you do a clean install (don't untar over the old install, delete the old install completely). That should fix the xml error you are seeing.
Um.. that's 1.5gigs for a debug build. With a lot of debug stuff built, as well as the full regression test suite and so forth. And the tarball of source is 25 megs...:)
That said, a full install without java (but with irc client, mailnews, etc) is about 30 megs...
Actually, that bug is about Mozilla trying to use GTK theme colors and doing it wrong.
I suggest unchecking the "Use System Colors" checkbox in preferences under "Appearance > Colors" if you don't want mozilla to use the system colors (which under Linux would be your GTK theme, Mozilla being a GTK app). That will help your color problems a lot.
Are the widgets terrible because of performance? If so, I should let you know that MailNews is being rewritten to use a different tree widget that's a _lot_ faster than the current tree widget when dealing with very large trees.
That being said, I presume exmh is no good because it is tk?
You did not get a particularly bad build. However, Mozilla is a work in progress. Some of the problems you describe were created by the rearchitecting of parts of the browser over the last few weeks.
I'm not sure why your text entry widget wasn't working; if you could file a bug report on it (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org) that would be great. The menu bug is a very recent regression and is being worked on.
Don't blame "Linux" for the brokenness of a particular program (Netscape). The fact is, Netscape does weird copy/paste things that are completely at odds with the way copy/paste is supposed to work under X. But this is entirely the fault of the Netscape developers.
I'm sure it would be possible to write such a broken app for MacOS as well. Would you then blame MacOS for the failure to copy/paste?
You would need to see case studies and the like.... Examples of what has been deemed indecent in the past vs. what has been deemed decent. That sort of thing.
The other principal difference is that TeX can typeset a formula that looks the way you would want a formula to look if someone with very good handwriting wrote it. Word can't even come close.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=50pt,height=50pt]{donkey.ep s}
\caption{This is a figure\label{fig:my-donkey}}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
is a lot simpler than doing the corresponding things properly in Word. Why are you using that \raisebox in the first place? Are you just trying to fuck with the spacing around the figure? If so, you are missing the point of LaTeX.....
There are definitely requests for enhancement filed on the first and fourth point; I'm not sure about the second and third. The "disable opening new windows in onunload handlers" rfe is definitely being worked on.
Why exactly is X "bloated"? This seems to be a common opinion but I have seen little support for it...
The Be GUI would certainly not replace X in any of the many circumstances in which one actually uses the remote display capabilities of X. Sorry, but many of the currently existing Unix/Linux desktop machines are at universities and _do_ have the bandwidth to effectively do remote display. Hell, even a cablemodem is enough.... And a lot of people use that capability.
You shouldn't believe everything you are told. Yes, coding raw Xlib takes a little work. Yes, X has other problems from a _developer_ perspective.
From a user perspective, X is wonderful for me. Perhaps this is because I use it the way it was supposed to be used -- I do a lot of running applications on one machine and displaying on another. In those circumstances, X is a lifesaver. Otherwise I would be stuck with text-only; probably text-only at 24x80.
If someone manages to come up with a good alternative that will be network-transparent and will be installed by default on Irix (which is what the remote machines Origin-2K machines I am accessing run) I will be happy to try it.... I am not holding my breath.
See the USPS website for ideas on how _not_ to do a site. Too much javascript, fails to show at all on anything that's not Windows or Mac last I checked, hard to find information.
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Actually, mozilla does not depend on gtk... there are fairly functional qt and pure xlib versions. In addition to which, does Konqueror run on useful things like OS2?
You can turn on the Emacs key stuff on windows using some hidden prefs. But yes, C-home does not work to go to beginning of first line. There is a bug on that that I can't find right now because Bugzilla is doing its daily "I'll be down around 5am EST" thing.
The child window thing is linux-only as far as I know and is driving everyone insane. Top minds are working on it -- it's a strange problem with focus not being set properly. If it is not linux-only (you are seeing it on Windows) please mail me at bz@mit.edu and let me know. That would be much appreciated.
And of course, patches are always welcome.
Sorry, can't reproduce.. with today's CVS build loads just fine.
It does not. And probably will not till mozilla 1.0 or later... See the LDAP support tracking bug and the bugs that are blocking it for more details on the status of things.... I don't use LDAP, so I can't tell you exactly how far along we are based on the info in those bugs.
That said, you are not the only one who wants this functionality. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11459.
The discussion on that bug includes a way to fix it using Protozoilla. This fix is currently being considered for inclusion in the main source tree.
That sounds like you have the build with the completely broken color preferences. That bug was present in builds for about 12 hours one day.... I would suggest getting a fresh build once the Slashdotting subsides and making sure you do a clean install (don't untar over the old install, delete the old install completely). That should fix the xml error you are seeing.
Because Mozilla 0.8 was not released till today (February 16). So your submission was blatantly false.
That said, a full install without java (but with irc client, mailnews, etc) is about 30 megs...
I suggest unchecking the "Use System Colors" checkbox in preferences under "Appearance > Colors" if you don't want mozilla to use the system colors (which under Linux would be your GTK theme, Mozilla being a GTK app). That will help your color problems a lot.
That being said, I presume exmh is no good because it is tk?
I would suggest watching http://www.mozillazine.org/build_comments/ and getting or not getting builds based on the excellent comments Asa puts up there.
I'm not sure why your text entry widget wasn't working; if you could file a bug report on it (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org) that would be great. The menu bug is a very recent regression and is being worked on.
I'm sure it would be possible to write such a broken app for MacOS as well. Would you then blame MacOS for the failure to copy/paste?
There is a bug open on installing Java in a profile dir. There is no current workaround.
Try exmh. You may be surprised.
Attach your page as a testcase to the bug to aid in performance tuning.
Thanks for making Mozilla a better browser. :)
If you mean psm instead of pam, yes. Drop by #mozillazine on irc.mozilla.org and ask for help if you need it...
You would need to see case studies and the like.... Examples of what has been deemed indecent in the past vs. what has been deemed decent. That sort of thing.
The other principal difference is that TeX can typeset a formula that looks the way you would want a formula to look if someone with very good handwriting wrote it. Word can't even come close.
\begin{figure}p s}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=50pt,height=50pt]{donkey.e
\caption{This is a figure\label{fig:my-donkey}}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
is a lot simpler than doing the corresponding things properly in Word. Why are you using that \raisebox in the first place? Are you just trying to fuck with the spacing around the figure? If so, you are missing the point of LaTeX.....
Wonderful. Except Mozilla 0.6 and Netscape 6.0 are _exactly_ the same code. See the roadmap.
There are definitely requests for enhancement filed on the first and fourth point; I'm not sure about the second and third. The "disable opening new windows in onunload handlers" rfe is definitely being worked on.
The Be GUI would certainly not replace X in any of the many circumstances in which one actually uses the remote display capabilities of X. Sorry, but many of the currently existing Unix/Linux desktop machines are at universities and _do_ have the bandwidth to effectively do remote display. Hell, even a cablemodem is enough.... And a lot of people use that capability.
From a user perspective, X is wonderful for me. Perhaps this is because I use it the way it was supposed to be used -- I do a lot of running applications on one machine and displaying on another. In those circumstances, X is a lifesaver. Otherwise I would be stuck with text-only; probably text-only at 24x80.
If someone manages to come up with a good alternative that will be network-transparent and will be installed by default on Irix (which is what the remote machines Origin-2K machines I am accessing run) I will be happy to try it.... I am not holding my breath.
Read the update. Yes, the RBL can be used to block HTTP traffic and is commonly used in this fashion.
See the USPS website for ideas on how _not_ to do a site. Too much javascript, fails to show at all on anything that's not Windows or Mac last I checked, hard to find information.