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  1. Re:Browser stats on AOL to Release Netscape 7.2 Based on Mozilla 1.7 · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, here are the stats for the past ~month for my site:

    Mozilla Firefox 36.2%
    Internet Explorer 26.4%
    Mozilla 17.8%
    Konqueror 7.5%
    Opera 5.7%
    Epiphany 1.4%
    MyIE2 1.3%
    Safari 1.2%
    Galeon 0.9%
    Netscape 0.5%
    (unknown browser) 0.5%
    Dillo 0.1%
    Crazy Browser 0.1%
    AOL Browser 0.1%
    Links 0.1%
    Avant Browser 0.1%
    Camino 0.0%
    w3m 0.0%

    A considerable amount of non-IE browsers, but as I have a fair share of Debian-specific content, it is understandable.

  2. Re:-30px and the LI Tag on Opera Settles $12.75m Lawsuit, But with Whom? · · Score: 1

    No, because margins and paddings declared in different CSS rules don't add up - a new declaration overwrites the old one. If one would want to get rid of those margins or paddings one would have set them to zero and not a negative value.

  3. Re:Cockpits stand back...... on Swedish Carbon-Fiber Stealth Ship Runs NT · · Score: 2, Informative
  4. Re:Your graphs are unreadable on Linux Filesystems Benchmarked · · Score: 1
    • PNG has been supported (albeit not all features) by every major browser since and including Netscape 4.
    • PNG is a much more flexible format, it allows for 8-bit indexed (like GIF) and 24-bit RGB and 32-bit RGBA as well when you need a higher colour depth.
    • The compression that PNG uses is far more efficient than the one GIF uses, so practically in every case with 8-bit indexed PNG vs GIF (which are 8-bit indexed in practically every case), the PNG image will be smaller. The only exception to this is very small images (pixelsizewise), then GIF can be smaller due to the smaller overhead of the format itself.
  5. Re:DVD-++-+-RRWR- on Plextor First With A 12x DVD+R Drive · · Score: 3, Informative
  6. Re:USB 1.1? on Jens Of Sweden MP3 Player With OLED, Ogg · · Score: 1
    (comment on HTML: needs a bloody fraction tag!)

    That's what MathML is for. ;)

  7. Re:Great! on James Gosling On The Sun/Microsoft Settlement · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are Free open source implementations of Java already. Not quite up to the same level as the Sun's offerings yet, but it is difficult to hit a moving target...

  8. Re:Cygwin, MS Services for Unix? on Will Linux For Windows Change The World? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Windows NT POSIX subsystem was only created so that Windows would be an alternative to government agencies as they once had a requirement of operating systems being POSIX compliant, so MS created a POSIX subsystem that technically filled those requirements but it isn't anything really usable in practice.

  9. Re:Who's at fault here, really? on Another English/Metric "Spacecraft" Problem · · Score: 1

    1 inch has been exactly 25.4 mm since 1959.

  10. Re:BoStream, Sweden on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1

    A little clarification is required I think regarding the Bostream's scream, as it is heavily dependant on distance from the phone station:

    • Less than 300 m: up to 26/26 Mbps (4-channel VDSL)
    • Less than 1000 m: up to 13/13 Mbps (4-channel VDSL)
    • Less than 5500 m: up to 8/1 Mbps (ADSL)

    Very few will actually be able to get the 26 Mbps due to the awfully short maximum distance to the phone station.

    And then there is the scream lite that is a bit cheaper but with some considerably slower speeds, from e.g. 256/64 kbps for 198.00 kr SEK = $27.64 USD.

    I myself have Bostream's scream and as I live about 3500 m away from the phone station I thus have the 8/1 Mbps ADSL. It works pretty well, the maximum download speeds I've got is over 900 kB/s when having multiple downloads in progress at the same time. The highest individual download speed I've seen so far was about 700 kB/s.

  11. Why no rendering engine updates to IE? on Windows XP SP2 Beta Reviewed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sure it is about time that IE gets a popup blocker, but one thing I'd like to see improved about IE would be its horridly aged quirky, standards-violating rendering engine. It is the "Netscape 4" of today.

    But of course at about 95% of the global browser market share Microsoft see no need to improve that vital component of the browser.

    Internet Explorer's browser monopoly is hurting the progress badly by locking the majority to legacy HTML that we should have left behind in the 90's already.

  12. Re:Enlighten me... on Swedish Flight Simulator Adds G Forces · · Score: 1

    Actually the last war Sweden was in was the Campaign against Norway in 1814 that lasted 17 days and was to enforce the terms of the treaty of Kiel (from the Second War against Napoleon 1813-1814) with Denmark where Sweden got control over Norway from Denmark.

  13. Re:Who the what now? on IE To Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 2, Informative

    Internet Explorer can only display RGBA PNG images properly when using an ugly hack that violates CSS specifications and this method is very slow too (noticed when having a page with lots of RGBA PNG images).

    If that hack is not applied, Internet Explorer will not show the transparancy, instead it will show either the background colour specified in the image or the browser's default background colour (usually gray), which is fully opaque.

  14. Re:Ummm on Designing With Web Standards · · Score: 5, Informative
    Internet Explorer violates a lot of standards. And is otherwise nasty to work with.
    • CSS level 1: Not full support despite MS claiming so. E.g.background-attatchment: fixed; works only on the <body element.
    • CSS level 2: Quite a mess, lots of things are broken, e.g. the infamous issues with the box model, and lots of things are not implemented, e.g. position: fixed;
    • XML support is flaky at best, it tends to complain about DTDs even though they are valid.
    • Other nasty quirks such as when having a <?xml ... ?> declaration, then it ignores the doctype and reverts to quirks mode with all the broken box models and such.
    • Violation of the HTTP specification by ignoring the media type received from the server. Internet Explorer will most of the time second-guess the media type instead.

      http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.h tml#sec7.2.1
      If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource.
    I design according to the standards and using Mozilla and Opera 7 as the design references, and then adjust the stylesheets for IE's buggy behavior, so that it renders fine there as well.
  15. Re:About 64-bit gaming performance on AMD64 Preview · · Score: 1

    In 64-bit mode on the Opteron/Athlon64, there are 16 64-bit GPRs available, RAX, RBC, RCX, RDX, RBP, RSI, RDI, RSP, which are the 64-bit extensions of the current IA32 GPRs, and R8 - R15 which are new for AMD64.

    And there are 8 new XMM SIMD registers (SSE/SSE2) too: XMM8 - XMM15

  16. Re:How does mozilla handle old caches? on Netscape 7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    ctrl+shift+r
    Only one hand needed. :)

  17. Re:German version of the review (off-topic) on Opteron Benchmarked Against Xeon · · Score: 1

    Let the images do the talking. ;)

    And there is always Babelfish that can help too.

  18. German version of the review on Opteron Benchmarked Against Xeon · · Score: 4, Informative

    The German version of the review seems to be quite a lot faster now than the English one: http://www.de.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/index. html

  19. Re:But which side to drive on? on South Pole to Get Highway · · Score: 1

    Sweden switched over to right-hand traffic on 1967-09-03.
    Despite that 82.9% said no in the referendum about it in October 1955.

  20. Re:Sounds like the danish system. on Governmental ID System in Japan · · Score: 1

    The three first digits of the last four are distributed in ranges, that are given to various geographical areas, such as the 900-series used to indicate people born abroad.

    So this system can support up to 1000 births per day nationwide (max 500 male, max 500 female, distributed evenly across the number series).

  21. Re:Get used to it on Governmental ID System in Japan · · Score: 1

    Here in Sweden we have a YYMMDD-nnnn format for the ID number, and there used to be some minor issues with that, such as 107-year olds getting letters that they have to go to school...

    But nowadays, all the numbers are in the databases stored as four digits, so that kind of issues can't occur, because of the four last digits - two individuals can not have the same full ten numbers.

  22. Re:Sweden have this. on Governmental ID System in Japan · · Score: 1

    And performing that kind of cross reference over the different databases is illegal here in Sweden.

    An example was that of a couple of government agencies that wanted to cross reference over their databases in order to spot misuses of the welfare system, but their request was denied, due to privacy concerns.

    And for those wondering, the format of the Swedish ID number is this: YYMMDD-nnnn.
    Example: 780421-1234

  23. Re:Or maybe it *is* that unbelievable on Boeing Joins In Anti-Gravity Search · · Score: 1

    It was observed during the solar eclipse in 1919. A displacement of the light from stars was seen near the sun.

  24. Re:finally on Mandrake To Support AMD's Hammer · · Score: 1

    IIRC, it is only the AltiVec unit that is 128 bit in them.

  25. Re:I want one already on First Benchmarks of AMD Hammer Prototype · · Score: 1

    ...or that graphics chip from BitBoys.