Easy fix doesn't mean it's as easy as fixing something in your typical OSS. Easy means with the given software procedures it should be easier to fix than a bug that may set the shuttle on fire. Both have the same procedures.
It's a common misonception that flash ins't accessible, the latest versions are very much so. JK Rowlings new site is meant to be a good example of this.
Yeah? I tried to change the font-size or search for a word and both didn't work. So even I as a non-disabled person can't do normals things. I wouldn't call that accessible.
And you're still wrong. Frontpage is for beginners and only for beginners. You can't use it to do "real" HTML.
But PHP is not only for beginners. Of course they like it because you don't need 10 lines of code for a hello world. But it's still a nice language if you write your large web applications and is maybe easier to use than other languages that weren't made for the web.
Show me how to write clean HTML in Frontpage, because I already know how to write clean code in PHP. Otherwise all or none of the languages should be on the same level as Frontpage, because none of them are safe against stupid programmers.
This year I (from Austria) was in Canada instead of the US, because politics and laws are just to crazy right now. I met someone from Finland, who did the same for the same reasons. I can't unterstand why the US wants Europe and the rest of the world to eat shit or avoid 'em.
They also don't know how to write secure websites. I reported a serious problem in one of these telebanking sites, where they didn't escape user input in the URI of the login page, which would have been fun for phishers. After 2 months they fixed the problem, but only the exact problem I reported. It took me 5 minutes to find an other way to embed the same javascript again. After another month they now fixed this problem too, but there might still be others.
So they not only don't know how to write secure code, they also don't unterstand the problems if you tell them. Instead they wait for a user to test their site without even saying thank you or sorry - seems like security means nothing to them if it's not gratis.
Their excuse for taking so long to fix the problem? "We're not a simple PHP website and have to do serious business". Tell that Flickr - they need less than a day for non-serious problems.
I'm from Austria, so I can only guess - but even Krauts wouldn't use such a complicated word as Volljährigkeitsüberprüfung - it would be (Über-)Prüfung auf/der Volljährigkeit. You can read more about http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altersfreigabe, which is really used.
Maybe after 5 years it's time for you to look at the language again. And you should also take a look at the languages you mentioned - you'll find enough inflexibility in all of them (including PHP). Most of the time is the upgrade issue haunting them. If they'd just drop mistakes they once made they could also just start a new language.
To use your car anaolgy, it would be like car manufactures being forced to make cars that couldn't speed. And yes that would cause one hell of an uproar.
Todays cars already have a speed limit in their controllers. I didn't hear anyone scream.
While you're at it, make it read objects from a gzip compressed network stream: new ObjectReader(new GZipReader(new SocketReader(new Socket("1.2.3.4", 42))));
The examples are a bit short, but you can read the whole manual about streams and filters. It's also possible to append filters later in the communication - i.e. after a handshake. You'll see it has enough to offer and adding new stream wrappers and filters is easy.
http://a.random.host.nyud.net/ seems like port 80 is already used. Maybe if someone could donate a nice domain they could switch to port 80. I agree that would be the best choice.
The alternatives can be pregenerated, so no server load. And as long as there are many sites with weaker CAPTCHAS no one is interested in cracking it. If someone has enought time and money to spend they'd just decode by hand.
Oh that's easy. Write a script that takes your kitten pictures and do add different borders or save in different qualities,... It's easy to get >30 versions of every picture and the CRC would always be different. Now your Bot writer has to analyze the pictures to find the ones that are similar.
That's what I need. I can't use the free VMWare stuff and Bochs is really, really, really slow. But it's too expensive, even the student version, just to run, again, Microsoft stuff.
I can't believe that after Firefox actually implemented tabbed browsing *well*, people insist on ruining it in the name of "progress".
They already ruined it for me as a Mac user. In 1.5 they disabled ctrl+tab and the only way to get it back is patching tabbrowser.xml in one of the jars. And that needs to be done after every update. There isn't even a hidden preference or anything - altough I submitted the code for it.
Seems more like a problem of your XMLRPC lib. Except date everything can be written in native PHP types and the lib should use that information to construct the request or response. One example can be found in the XMLRPC client in the new Zend Framework. I've done it myself and it's really not that hard.
One example of PHP and XML working together quite well is the Flux CMS made by Bitflux (chregu from Bitflux worked on the new XML libs in PHP5).
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Easy fix doesn't mean it's as easy as fixing something in your typical OSS. Easy means with the given software procedures it should be easier to fix than a bug that may set the shuttle on fire. Both have the same procedures.
It's a common misonception that flash ins't accessible, the latest versions are very much so. JK Rowlings new site is meant to be a good example of this.
Yeah? I tried to change the font-size or search for a word and both didn't work. So even I as a non-disabled person can't do normals things. I wouldn't call that accessible.
... and is pretty user unfriendly ...
Usenet is as user unfriendly as e-mail or http. You only need a nice client and it becomes really easy. I.e.: http://www.panic.com/unison/
Was ist ein Ton eines Witzes und wie geht ein Witz über einen Kopf hinaus? What you wrote doesn't make sense in German.
And you're still wrong. Frontpage is for beginners and only for beginners. You can't use it to do "real" HTML.
But PHP is not only for beginners. Of course they like it because you don't need 10 lines of code for a hello world. But it's still a nice language if you write your large web applications and is maybe easier to use than other languages that weren't made for the web.
Show me how to write clean HTML in Frontpage, because I already know how to write clean code in PHP. Otherwise all or none of the languages should be on the same level as Frontpage, because none of them are safe against stupid programmers.
This year I (from Austria) was in Canada instead of the US, because politics and laws are just to crazy right now. I met someone from Finland, who did the same for the same reasons. I can't unterstand why the US wants Europe and the rest of the world to eat shit or avoid 'em.
They also don't know how to write secure websites. I reported a serious problem in one of these telebanking sites, where they didn't escape user input in the URI of the login page, which would have been fun for phishers. After 2 months they fixed the problem, but only the exact problem I reported. It took me 5 minutes to find an other way to embed the same javascript again. After another month they now fixed this problem too, but there might still be others.
So they not only don't know how to write secure code, they also don't unterstand the problems if you tell them. Instead they wait for a user to test their site without even saying thank you or sorry - seems like security means nothing to them if it's not gratis.
Their excuse for taking so long to fix the problem? "We're not a simple PHP website and have to do serious business". Tell that Flickr - they need less than a day for non-serious problems.
It's a german word: http://dict.leo.org/?search=lauch
I'm from Austria, so I can only guess - but even Krauts wouldn't use such a complicated word as Volljährigkeitsüberprüfung - it would be (Über-)Prüfung auf/der Volljährigkeit. You can read more about http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altersfreigabe, which is really used.
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I guess my post won't reach +5 because mine is not stupid enough
Maybe after 5 years it's time for you to look at the language again. And you should also take a look at the languages you mentioned - you'll find enough inflexibility in all of them (including PHP). Most of the time is the upgrade issue haunting them. If they'd just drop mistakes they once made they could also just start a new language.
To use your car anaolgy, it would be like car manufactures being forced to make cars that couldn't speed. And yes that would cause one hell of an uproar.
Todays cars already have a speed limit in their controllers. I didn't hear anyone scream.
While you're at it, make it read objects from a gzip compressed network stream:
new ObjectReader(new GZipReader(new SocketReader(new Socket("1.2.3.4", 42))));
http://php.net/manual/en/filters.compression.php
The examples are a bit short, but you can read the whole manual about streams and filters. It's also possible to append filters later in the communication - i.e. after a handshake. You'll see it has enough to offer and adding new stream wrappers and filters is easy.
http://a.random.host.nyud.net/ seems like port 80 is already used. Maybe if someone could donate a nice domain they could switch to port 80. I agree that would be the best choice.
That should be http://willlangford.com.nyud.net:8080/geekpages/fi refox/. Port 8080 works better behind firewalls and is now also the offical port on http://coralcdn.org/.
The alternatives can be pregenerated, so no server load. And as long as there are many sites with weaker CAPTCHAS no one is interested in cracking it. If someone has enought time and money to spend they'd just decode by hand.
Oh that's easy. Write a script that takes your kitten pictures and do add different borders or save in different qualities, ... It's easy to get >30 versions of every picture and the CRC would always be different. Now your Bot writer has to analyze the pictures to find the ones that are similar.
That's what I need. I can't use the free VMWare stuff and Bochs is really, really, really slow. But it's too expensive, even the student version, just to run, again, Microsoft stuff.
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Just a hint - Funny doesn't improve karma - choose an other +1 ;) Oh here is an other post for the proof.
Seems like everyone crazy enough to mod a random post up already got to bed. Who would do that anyway. Or does anyone want to prove I'm wrong?
Get Hipp. Get SQLite.
For everyone not getting the joke (hope it was meant as joke). SQLite is written by D. Richard Hipp.
I can't believe that after Firefox actually implemented tabbed browsing *well*, people insist on ruining it in the name of "progress".
They already ruined it for me as a Mac user. In 1.5 they disabled ctrl+tab and the only way to get it back is patching tabbrowser.xml in one of the jars. And that needs to be done after every update. There isn't even a hidden preference or anything - altough I submitted the code for it.
Seems more like a problem of your XMLRPC lib. Except date everything can be written in native PHP types and the lib should use that information to construct the request or response. One example can be found in the XMLRPC client in the new Zend Framework. I've done it myself and it's really not that hard.
One example of PHP and XML working together quite well is the Flux CMS made by Bitflux (chregu from Bitflux worked on the new XML libs in PHP5).