Yep, the first mozilla_die entry crashes Mozilla 1.8a4 for me, too. Sounds like the tests are repeatable enough. Now quick, everybody rush to file bug reports and the winners can collect their $500!
Sorry, but HTML and CSS are not standards in any way: they are recommendations from a consortium that on the whole has very little power compared to the one held by other players in the field.
And what "power" does ANSI or ISO have compared to the companies that implement their standards?
Browsers are under _no_ obligation to implement it and can render it however they see fit but obviously its in their interest to be compatible. This was my point. There is no official standard that says a browser must do anything.
Looking at the HTML standard, I see many things that a user agent (which is what a browser is) must do:
User agents must not evaluate script data as HTML markup but instead must pass it on as data to a script engine.
User agents must follow the steps set out in the section on specifying character encodings in order to determine the character encoding of an external resource.
To facilitate the introduction of these extensions, conforming user agents must be able to parse the media attribute value as follows
What books are available that cover the new features in Java 5? I've been looking for the fourth edition of The Java Programming Language or the third edition of The Java Language Specification but haven't been able to find any reference to them yet.
I don't know any "average" web sites that show browser statistics. The best I can think of is TheCounter, which lists stats for a bunch of fairly average sites. They show IE usage down from 95% in May to 91% in September.
they refuse to fix this horrible UI bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225574
Refuse to fix? I see that it's marked NEW, not WONTFIX. It's even been marked blocking-aviary1.0mac+, so it must be fixed before Firefox 1.0 is released. Can you explain what you're blathering on about?
What? Your management actually pays attention to your estimates? Where I used to work, I was always told whatever I was working on would take two weeks, no matter whether I said it would take two days or two months!
There are two estimates involved. One is the estimate of the true value of something. The other estimate is the competence of the person giving the estimate. It is the second type of estimate that correllates well with the actual competence of the person giving the estimate.
In other words, people really do know what they don't know, and approximately how well they don't know it. Of course, I didn't actually read the article, but I believe this to be a reasonably good summary of it.
On the other side, security with cryptography/cyphers is mathematically proven to be safe.
Can you point me to such a proof? A mathematical cryptographic system that can be decrypted in a reasonable amount of time, but is proven unable be cracked in a reasonable amount of time, would amount to a proof that P != NP. Then I can collect my $1000000!
OneStat and TheCounter are two stats sources you can use. However, they track only browsers that hit sites with their counters on them. These tends to be smaller, less professional sites. In particular, if you check out the last 30 referring URLs to TheCounter you'll find that their service seems to be heavily used by gay porn sites. An unbiased sample, this is not!
2. "Open Source software allows you to get under the hood and fix problems"
That statement does not mean that the average user can fix problems. It applies to a medium to large company that adopts the product for many of its computers. If there's a bug or required feature, the company can afford to hire developers to fix the problem or add the feature very quickly. Compare this situation to using commercial software, where bugs or feature requests generally take a minimum of months to be acted upon. Often, the company needs to pay a significant upgrade fee to obtain the needed fix or feature. Why not use that money to pay someone to fix the problem right away?
By using open source software, companies can have exactly the product they want for less money than commercial software. The larger the company, the more sense it can make to use open source software. And as features get added and bugs get fixed in this way, it becomes even easier for other companies to use the product, too.
When I've seen people shout "Well, why don't you contribute to it then?", usually the person being shouted at was just shouting "This feature must be implemented NOW!" Don't be surprised to be treated as part of the development team if you show up and act like the boss.
But Opera is always very easy to detect, even when identifying as IE 6. You see, Opera always contains the text "Opera" in its user agent string. Can you give any evidence that Opera really is being undercounted by the major browser stats sites?
Most users don't even know what a browser is, much less how to find, download, and install Firefox. Most users will think only "the Internet is broken on my computer", and notice that the Internet works fine on computers that have the new Windows. Microsoft needs only 5% of users to buy the new OS for this reason, and they make many millions of dollars in profit.
Besides, many IE users refuse to switch to Firefox because many sites use proprietary extensions in IE, such as document.all. That means those sites work only in IE or perhaps Opera.
But Microsoft has stopped developing IE on non-Windows platforms, and has also stopped developing new versions for its existing operating systems. The only way to get IE7 will be to buy Longhorn, the next Windows version.
I'm sure Microsoft will suddenly start supporting the standards that Mozilla and Opera have supported for years in IE7, meaning that developers will start using those standards. Because IE6 won't recognize those standards, newly designed sites will look like sh*t in that old browser, and users will be forced to upgrade to IE7.
It looks like Microsoft found how to make its IE monopoly pay off for them after all!
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Yep, the first mozilla_die entry crashes Mozilla 1.8a4 for me, too. Sounds like the tests are repeatable enough. Now quick, everybody rush to file bug reports and the winners can collect their $500!
Firefox is an OS???
Did I miss something? Did someone say your "to fast" verse was "too fast"? Oh! You meant versus, often abbreviated as vs.
What books are available that cover the new features in Java 5? I've been looking for the fourth edition of The Java Programming Language or the third edition of The Java Language Specification but haven't been able to find any reference to them yet.
I don't know any "average" web sites that show browser statistics. The best I can think of is TheCounter, which lists stats for a bunch of fairly average sites. They show IE usage down from 95% in May to 91% in September.
They kept browser stats from March 2001 to June 2004. They removed the browser and OS stats in July 2004.
IE: 84% and falling
Mozilla: 7% and rising
Safari: 1-2% and rising
Opera: 1-2% and holding steady
Netscape 4: below 1% and falling
How about Wikipedia: 80% IE, 20% Mozilla & company.
Thankfully, galaxies are made using ionized labor. The negative and positive workers pull together and get the job done faster.
What? Your management actually pays attention to your estimates? Where I used to work, I was always told whatever I was working on would take two weeks, no matter whether I said it would take two days or two months!
In other words, people really do know what they don't know, and approximately how well they don't know it. Of course, I didn't actually read the article, but I believe this to be a reasonably good summary of it.
Most likely an audience member leaked the news. Is Alex gonna send someone over to break his legs, assuming they can figure out who it is?
OneStat and TheCounter are two stats sources you can use. However, they track only browsers that hit sites with their counters on them. These tends to be smaller, less professional sites. In particular, if you check out the last 30 referring URLs to TheCounter you'll find that their service seems to be heavily used by gay porn sites. An unbiased sample, this is not!
Yeah, I'm sure Avant gives you the alpha transparency PNG support and CSS support that web developers are craving. Sheesh!
That statement does not mean that the average user can fix problems. It applies to a medium to large company that adopts the product for many of its computers. If there's a bug or required feature, the company can afford to hire developers to fix the problem or add the feature very quickly. Compare this situation to using commercial software, where bugs or feature requests generally take a minimum of months to be acted upon. Often, the company needs to pay a significant upgrade fee to obtain the needed fix or feature. Why not use that money to pay someone to fix the problem right away?
By using open source software, companies can have exactly the product they want for less money than commercial software. The larger the company, the more sense it can make to use open source software. And as features get added and bugs get fixed in this way, it becomes even easier for other companies to use the product, too.
When I've seen people shout "Well, why don't you contribute to it then?", usually the person being shouted at was just shouting "This feature must be implemented NOW!" Don't be surprised to be treated as part of the development team if you show up and act like the boss.
But Opera is always very easy to detect, even when identifying as IE 6. You see, Opera always contains the text "Opera" in its user agent string. Can you give any evidence that Opera really is being undercounted by the major browser stats sites?
Besides, many IE users refuse to switch to Firefox because many sites use proprietary extensions in IE, such as document.all. That means those sites work only in IE or perhaps Opera.
I'm sure Microsoft will suddenly start supporting the standards that Mozilla and Opera have supported for years in IE7, meaning that developers will start using those standards. Because IE6 won't recognize those standards, newly designed sites will look like sh*t in that old browser, and users will be forced to upgrade to IE7.
It looks like Microsoft found how to make its IE monopoly pay off for them after all!