Seems logical to have their funding cut to me, do they really need _daily_ monitoring? Would monthly monitoring not be more practical, after all it will take many years before the next interesting event happens.
If you want a responsive web application, would it not be better just to use Flash? I believe flash can communicate to the server as well, so it would be able to do anything that a Ajax application would be able to do, plus you have these pros: * Comprehensive debugging abilities (I think javascript only has debugging available in Mozilla) * No cross-platform worries - flash plugin is available for all platforms, usually installed by default.
Multimedia support - you can make your apps a lot prettier with little effort in Flash.
The only disavantage is that Flash has no clipboard support (i.e. you can't select and copy text like you can in browser apps).
There are many things that you can only be done with tables, for instance if want to make a cell bottom align according to the size of the contents of cell next to it. If you want to make a footer always appear on the bottom of a page, except when the window is too small in which case it should appear at below the rest of the contents..
Yeah, have a look at any commercial web sites (ie. MacroMedia). They're all using HTML 4.01 transitional (or lower) and tables for layout. And the reason is, is because it's the only way that they can make their web sites look good on all browsers.
It's easy to tack a tab feature onto IE. The tricky part is doing it well (I seriously doubt they will be able to). When the user says "I want tabbed browsing" he/she means for everything. *All* new windows should be opened in a new tab. External apps opening a browser window, a right click search, a target="new window" link, all these should open in a new tab, *not* a new window. This is the way Firefox works (at least if you select the right settings). Also, when you close a tab, it should switch to the tab to the right - because tabs are opened left to right, the tab on the right will normally then next one that you want to view. Other browsers get this detail wrong as well.
I guess the poster ment that Firefox has only one GUI thread (of coarse there are seperate threads for each TCP socket). The problem with only one GUI thread is that when one tab is busy rendering a complicated page all the other tabs are blocked until it is finished.
In that case both Mandrake and Fedora Core are badly designed, because they both require root access to connect (bear in mind this is for a USB DSL modem)
I know it's not secure to log in as root, but many users are driven to do this because of how restrictive Linux security is. I mean you need to type the root password just to connect your modem, or change the clock time. Is this really necessary on a single user desktop?
64-bit technology is more interesting for servers, than workstations. AMD were expected to do very well last quarter, but they in fact gained very little marketshare in the server market according to the Q4 reports. However, Intel was forced to reduce the price of it's Xeons and lost margin. I am betting, that it's only because of slow up-take and this quarter we will see AMD make some serious gains.
Yes, isn't that what I said? XForms is form related stuff and not specificaly a replacement to XMLHTTPRequest.
Maybe you could somehow hack it so that a non-form based application such as gmail would use the methods to pass data, but this may not be a pretty solution.
Actually, I don't think XForms is a replacement for XMLHTTPRequest at all. I read the introduction and it says it's designed as a replacement of HTML forms (as the name implys).
Okay I stand corrected, there is a standard available... but no one has yet implemented it, which makes it fairly useless if you want to develop a web app today. XMLHTTPRequest has been available since 1999.
There is none. I'm glad they made that "foolish" decision, because without XMLHTTPRequest you have no such thing as responsive web apps, no gmail, no google maps, etc.
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... on Mandrake 10.1? I suppose "urpmi kde 3.4" would be too much to hope for?
The editing behavour in Mozilla is extremly buggy. I've noticed dozens of small, but irritating bugs, for example:
* the behavour of CTRL right arrow is wrong: it should move one word and one space to the right (this is the way all other editors work), however you must press it twice once to move past the word and once to move past the space (note: CTRL left works correctly!) * The font changes when you don't want it to change. Open a new mail make the font bigger, then type a letter, delete it and type a new letter. The new letter appears in small font. There are many other cases like this where the font reverts back when you dont want it to. * Empty lines are not shown highlighted with selection, making it impossible to tell where the selection begins and ends
And there are many, many more. Because these bugs exist in a core module they effect all products, Firefox, Thunderbird and Nvu. What's worse is that there is no one to fix them, even though most of them would be relatively simple to fix. (Comment from bug 192308 "From Kai Engert 2003-08-12 17:48 PST [reply] -------
It's not likely that I will work on editor/selection bugs in the near future. Mass assining my bugs to nobody."
On one hand he is right, if his company were to give away the product, there would be much less resources (i.e. money) available to further develop the product. Many open source projects keep going only via free contribution. However the development is much slower than the ones that have a source of revenue (compare the pace of development of wxWidgets with QT)
On the other hand if his company is trying to extract the maximum price for the product matter who the customer is then, there is something bad about that as well (I mean to poor countries and the like)
Did you read the link??? "Microsoft released the Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP a few days ago, which will be distributed via the Windows Update within the next days. The SP2 is supposed to fix several bugs/exploits and to increase the security in general. One new "security features" limits the amount of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts and slows down all connection attempts, as soon as a limit has been reached. Unfortunatly this limit is "hard coded" and cannot be turned off by the user (while worms and other malware can easily patch some system files to avoid beeing affected). "
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Is the UI gnome based then? And the browser? Anyone know which browser they use? Could it be Minimo?
Seems logical to have their funding cut to me, do they really need _daily_ monitoring? Would monthly monitoring not be more practical, after all it will take many years before the next interesting event happens.
If you want a responsive web application, would it not be better just to use Flash?
I believe flash can communicate to the server as well, so it would be able to do anything that a Ajax application would be able to do, plus you have these pros:
* Comprehensive debugging abilities (I think javascript only has debugging available in Mozilla)
* No cross-platform worries - flash plugin is available for all platforms, usually installed by default.
Multimedia support - you can make your apps a lot prettier with little effort in Flash.
The only disavantage is that Flash has no clipboard support (i.e. you can't select and copy text like you can in browser apps).
There are many things that you can only be done with tables, for instance if want to make a cell bottom align according to the size of the contents of cell next to it.
If you want to make a footer always appear on the bottom of a page, except when the window is too small in which case it should appear at below the rest of the contents..
oops sorry.. posting too late at night
Try submiting a HTML 4.01 document with a font tag to the validator and it will fail.
This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!
Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.
1.
Line 32, column 12: there is no attribute "FONT"
table font="ariel" style="text-align: left; width: 100%;" border="0" cellpaddin
Yeah, have a look at any commercial web sites (ie. MacroMedia). They're all using HTML 4.01 transitional (or lower) and tables for layout.
And the reason is, is because it's the only way that they can make their web sites look good on all browsers.
Actually, HTML 4.01 already forced you to remove the font tag. So, to summarize: XHTML is purely for buzzword compliance
Magnetic fields only effect charged particals, so gamma rays, etc will be a problem.
It's easy to tack a tab feature onto IE. The tricky part is doing it well (I seriously doubt they will be able to).
When the user says "I want tabbed browsing" he/she means for everything. *All* new windows should be opened in a new tab. External apps opening a browser window, a right click search, a target="new window" link, all these should open in a new tab, *not* a new window. This is the way Firefox works (at least if you select the right settings).
Also, when you close a tab, it should switch to the tab to the right - because tabs are opened left to right, the tab on the right will normally then next one that you want to view. Other browsers get this detail wrong as well.
I guess the poster ment that Firefox has only one GUI thread (of coarse there are seperate threads for each TCP socket). The problem with only one GUI thread is that when one tab is busy rendering a complicated page all the other tabs are blocked until it is finished.
No, you misunderstood... it was a joke. We would be lucky if they actually did any useful improvements.
I hear notepad can now render line feeds correctly!
In that case both Mandrake and Fedora Core are badly designed, because they both require root access to connect (bear in mind this is for a USB DSL modem)
I know it's not secure to log in as root, but many users are driven to do this because of how restrictive Linux security is.
I mean you need to type the root password just to connect your modem, or change the clock time. Is this really necessary on a single user desktop?
The current settlement has a time limit of 5 years.
"V.Termination
1. Unless this Court grants an extension, this Final Judgment will expire on the fifth anniversary of the date it is entered by the Court."
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f9400/9462.htm
64-bit technology is more interesting for servers, than workstations.
AMD were expected to do very well last quarter, but they in fact gained very little marketshare in the server market according to the Q4 reports. However, Intel was forced to reduce the price of it's Xeons and lost margin.
I am betting, that it's only because of slow up-take and this quarter we will see AMD make some serious gains.
Yes, isn't that what I said? XForms is form related stuff and not specificaly a replacement to XMLHTTPRequest.
Maybe you could somehow hack it so that a non-form based application such as gmail would use the methods to pass data, but this may not be a pretty solution.
Actually, I don't think XForms is a replacement for XMLHTTPRequest at all. I read the introduction and it says it's designed as a replacement of HTML forms (as the name implys).
Okay I stand corrected, there is a standard available... but no one has yet implemented it, which makes it fairly useless if you want to develop a web app today.
XMLHTTPRequest has been available since 1999.
There is none.
I'm glad they made that "foolish" decision, because without XMLHTTPRequest you have no such thing as responsive web apps, no gmail, no google maps, etc.
... on Mandrake 10.1?
I suppose "urpmi kde 3.4" would be too much to hope for?
The editing behavour in Mozilla is extremly buggy. I've noticed dozens of small, but irritating bugs, for example:
* the behavour of CTRL right arrow is wrong: it should move one word and one space to the right (this is the way all other editors work), however you must press it twice once to move past the word and once to move past the space (note: CTRL left works correctly!)
* The font changes when you don't want it to change. Open a new mail make the font bigger, then type a letter, delete it and type a new letter. The new letter appears in small font. There are many other cases like this where the font reverts back when you dont want it to.
* Empty lines are not shown highlighted with selection, making it impossible to tell where the selection begins and ends
And there are many, many more.
Because these bugs exist in a core module they effect all products, Firefox, Thunderbird and Nvu.
What's worse is that there is no one to fix them, even though most of them would be relatively simple to fix. (Comment from bug 192308 "From Kai Engert 2003-08-12 17:48 PST [reply] -------
It's not likely that I will work on editor/selection bugs in the near future.
Mass assining my bugs to nobody."
On one hand he is right, if his company were to give away the product, there would be much less resources (i.e. money) available to further develop the product. Many open source projects keep going only via free contribution. However the development is much slower than the ones that have a source of revenue (compare the pace of development of wxWidgets with QT)
On the other hand if his company is trying to extract the maximum price for the product matter who the customer is then, there is something bad about that as well (I mean to poor countries and the like)
Did you read the link???
"Microsoft released the Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP a few days ago, which will be distributed via the Windows Update within the next days. The SP2 is supposed to fix several bugs/exploits and to increase the security in general.
One new "security features" limits the amount of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts and slows down all connection attempts, as soon as a limit has been reached. Unfortunatly this limit is "hard coded" and cannot be turned off by the user (while worms and other malware can easily patch some system files to avoid beeing affected). "