Re:Sends binary files as text/plain MIME type
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2003: Year of Apache
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Thats not Apaches fault. Its your fault. Fix your httpd.conf mod_mime docs
How can it be my fault? I don't even have a web server! But I sure suffer when I try to download files form Apache servers and the web admins haven't done what you suggest.
I got Dish Network two years ago and have been enjoying The Research Channel, UCTV, and UWTV. They've got university lectures nearly around the clock. Some of the lectures are toned down for a lay scientist (lots of annual faculty lectures), and others are broadcasts of actual university classes. CSN would be a welcome addition to these networks for me.
I've seen bounties for many Mozilla bugs over the past several months. Have any of these bounties actually motivated a developer to fix any of those bugs so far? If not, I would conclude that in fact the bounties are still too small.
No, programs don't release memory when their windows are minimized. It's just that some of the memory that window took up isn't counted in the number reported in the Task Manager. I think the column that shows actual memory usage is VM Size, which counts all the memory used by that task, not just "active" memory.
Most stats pages do detect Opera correctly, even though most Opera users have the UA set to mimic IE (not because they know how, but because that's the default after you install Opera). Opera's UA always includes the string "Opera" and the browser has been widely acknowledged as one of the more popular browsers for many years. Do you really think the stats programmers are such dumbasses they still don't know to look for "Opera"?
Nope, thecounter.com stats have not changed since May 5. Check the main stats for May and for September and notice that the total number of visitors has not changed. Then look at the Weekday data and notice that only five days of the week are covered.
Just like you say, please read carefully before posting!
The point of pair programming is not to force programmers to communicate with each other. Pair programming is "the knob turned to 10" on code reviews... if code reviews are good, then do them all the time, as a programmer is first writing the code.
If you don't do pair programming, you need to replace it with a less extreme version of code reviews, such as simply reviewing each patch before it is checked in. The type of pair programming you describe involves no code reviews, and therefore is no substitute for pair programming.
Unfortunately, very few sites out there that work in all browsers correctly are compliant.
That's because there are very few sites that are compliant to begin with. Around 99% of the pages on the web don't validate with the W3C HTML validator, including the one you're reading right now!
I would bet, however, that the pages that do validate tend to work better across all browsers. That's because validated pages don't contain the serious structural problems that are most often the problem on pages that don't work in some browsers.
...it takes considerably longer to make your site standards-compliant...
I suppose it does if you delberately use IE proprietary code, and then try to make it standards compliant. But if you write standards compliant code from the beginning, it should be just as easy, and then typically the code works perfectly fine in all browsers and is easier to maintain, too.
I agree that Netscape 6.0 did have some issues, but that browser was released three years ago and hardly anyone ever used it because it was so slow and buggy. Even fewer continue to use it today.
I'd spend my time checking the site with Netscape 7.x or Mozilla 1.0.x or Mozilla 1.4.x instead. Can you give a specific example of "limited use" of tables and styles in one of those browsers?
Komodo uses Mozilla-the-platform, not Mozilla-the-application-suite. The question is about the use of the email and web browser applications in Mozilla, not the cross-platform framework that Mozilla uses.
"Always show this dialog before handling files..."
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Mozilla 1.4 RC1
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If anyone keeps getting that dialog asking what helper application to use every time you download an MPEG or other type of audio file, please go to Bug 48948 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48948 and report what OS you are using and anything else that would help Mozilla developers fix the problem. It's driving some of us bonkers, but the developers cannot reproduce the problem!
To see if you experience this bug, click on this link, uncheck the "Always show this dialog..." checkbox, then click the link again. If the dialog pops up again, you're seeing it.
But AOL does use Gecko in the Mac OS X version of AOL and in their CompuServe product. I think switching to Gecko in AOL for Windows now might increase help desk calls significantly. Maybe they're waiting for more websites to support standards instead of IE proprietary HTML and JavaScript.
Newsflash: AOL has been using IE for years, so nothing substantial has changed. Or did I miss a story about AOL laying off the Netscape employees who work on Mozilla?
When I was trying Opera 7.0x for Windows, I noticed that many sites did not render properly. Those sites tended to use fairly simple HTML. For example, on the front page of Slashdot, italic letters had their descenders but off on the left side of the text.
The sites that used JS/DOM rendered correctly but were very sluggish. For example, try to navigate the menus at the PGA Tour website in Opera 7 and in another browser such as Mozilla or IE. Opera is so slow it's nearly unusable.
There's no evidence that Opera will not release version 7 for Mac, only that the current version for the Mac is version 6. Opera always releases the new version of its software for Windows first, then ports it to other platforms. Opera 7 for Windows was released in January 2003, and the Linux port was released in May 2003. It may be a few more months before there's any sign of a Mac version.
The problem with that is that no one really *knows* how the brain works beyond a very, very basic and limited understanding. No one has ever been able to satisfactorily create/reproduce one.
No one really knows how a bird flies beyond a very basic and limited understanding. But we have no trouble building machines that fly far faster than any bird. We don't have to know how the brain works to create a machine that can think any more than we need to know how a bird flies to create a machine that can fly.
Many people are saying that Firebird is only a codename, but that's clearly not correct. If you download the Mozilla Firebird browser today, it says "Mozilla Firebird" in the title bar. It is the real name of the browser right now and for the next few months, until Mozilla 1.4 is released.
What's wrong with that is that there is already a Mozilla Browser. The Phoenix/Firebird browser is a separate project from the Mozilla Browser, just as the Camino browser is a separate project. If you just call them all Mozilla Browser, confusion will abound.
After Mozilla 1.4 is released, Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla Thunderbird will replace the existing browser and mail parts of the Mozilla Application Suite. Then we can refer to them as Mozilla Browser and Mozilla Mail without confusion.
The name Firebird is not just for internal use. It's the name of a released product, and therefore cannot have the same name as another browser. The name had to change from Phoenix because there was already a browser named Phoenix.
The situation with Firebird is different because there is no other browser named Firebird, only a BBS, a database, and some other non-browser programs.
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Of course this is Apache's fault, and here's the bug filed to fix Apache.
It's nice to see that Apache is gaining ground. Now it if could only send out WMV and RAR files with the correct MIME type, that would be great!
I got Dish Network two years ago and have been enjoying The Research Channel, UCTV, and UWTV. They've got university lectures nearly around the clock. Some of the lectures are toned down for a lay scientist (lots of annual faculty lectures), and others are broadcasts of actual university classes. CSN would be a welcome addition to these networks for me.
I've seen bounties for many Mozilla bugs over the past several months. Have any of these bounties actually motivated a developer to fix any of those bugs so far? If not, I would conclude that in fact the bounties are still too small.
No, programs don't release memory when their windows are minimized. It's just that some of the memory that window took up isn't counted in the number reported in the Task Manager. I think the column that shows actual memory usage is VM Size, which counts all the memory used by that task, not just "active" memory.
Most stats pages do detect Opera correctly, even though most Opera users have the UA set to mimic IE (not because they know how, but because that's the default after you install Opera). Opera's UA always includes the string "Opera" and the browser has been widely acknowledged as one of the more popular browsers for many years. Do you really think the stats programmers are such dumbasses they still don't know to look for "Opera"?
Just like you say, please read carefully before posting!
If you don't do pair programming, you need to replace it with a less extreme version of code reviews, such as simply reviewing each patch before it is checked in. The type of pair programming you describe involves no code reviews, and therefore is no substitute for pair programming.
I would bet, however, that the pages that do validate tend to work better across all browsers. That's because validated pages don't contain the serious structural problems that are most often the problem on pages that don't work in some browsers.
I'd spend my time checking the site with Netscape 7.x or Mozilla 1.0.x or Mozilla 1.4.x instead. Can you give a specific example of "limited use" of tables and styles in one of those browsers?
No, Opera is not based on Mozilla in any way. The Opera source code is completely separate from any other browser and is closed source.
Additionally, the Mozilla browser is now being developed by the Mozilla Foundation, not by Netscape.
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Komodo uses Mozilla-the-platform, not Mozilla-the-application-suite. The question is about the use of the email and web browser applications in Mozilla, not the cross-platform framework that Mozilla uses.
To see if you experience this bug, click on this link, uncheck the "Always show this dialog..." checkbox, then click the link again. If the dialog pops up again, you're seeing it.
But AOL does use Gecko in the Mac OS X version of AOL and in their CompuServe product. I think switching to Gecko in AOL for Windows now might increase help desk calls significantly. Maybe they're waiting for more websites to support standards instead of IE proprietary HTML and JavaScript.
Newsflash: AOL has been using IE for years, so nothing substantial has changed. Or did I miss a story about AOL laying off the Netscape employees who work on Mozilla?
AOL for Mac OS X and Compuserve use Gecko. AOL for Windows still uses IE.
The sites that used JS/DOM rendered correctly but were very sluggish. For example, try to navigate the menus at the PGA Tour website in Opera 7 and in another browser such as Mozilla or IE. Opera is so slow it's nearly unusable.
There's no evidence that Opera will not release version 7 for Mac, only that the current version for the Mac is version 6. Opera always releases the new version of its software for Windows first, then ports it to other platforms. Opera 7 for Windows was released in January 2003, and the Linux port was released in May 2003. It may be a few more months before there's any sign of a Mac version.
Many people are saying that Firebird is only a codename, but that's clearly not correct. If you download the Mozilla Firebird browser today, it says "Mozilla Firebird" in the title bar. It is the real name of the browser right now and for the next few months, until Mozilla 1.4 is released.
After Mozilla 1.4 is released, Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla Thunderbird will replace the existing browser and mail parts of the Mozilla Application Suite. Then we can refer to them as Mozilla Browser and Mozilla Mail without confusion.
The situation with Firebird is different because there is no other browser named Firebird, only a BBS, a database, and some other non-browser programs.