Maybe true, however, a lot of people want to take their document somewhere else to print it, and they really don't want to discover the whole style of the document has changed when they load it into... Microsoft Word.
Yes, they have changed it... though I haven't seen it in action yet.
Email Address Munging
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The fact that raw email addresses are displayed in Bugzilla makes it trivial for bots that spamharvest to spider through Bugzilla, in particular, through Bugzilla's buglists. This change adds HTML obfuscation of email addresses as
they appear in the Bugzilla web pages.
www.888.com is an interesting example. Went to there to see - not a terrible site as these things go but, hello, lots of Javascript popups whenver I do anything! Funny example:
Popup 1: Do you want to download our software while browsing our site? (ok/cancel)
Popup 2: Start playing poker now - no download required! (ok/cancel)
Hm... so what would OK do the second time then?
Sorry, but every gambling site I have ever seen does things that are at least annoying.
The fact is that business software like this is so complicated to develop and debug, that even if the UI is crap it can still be useful. That's business reality.
If you go to a record store, you can maybe randomly look at things in the (extremely broad) genre you heard of. Each time take it to the counter, ask to listen, wait a minute or so while they find it, load it, listen. This is extremely inefficient, slow, and annoys the staff, and isn't feasible for more than one or two people to do in a store at once.
On the other hand, if you can simply chat or read on the net about bands, then download tracks from there right then and there, you can efficiently decide whether or not they are interesting to you.
A good music store can do this too, but such a good music store doesnt exist yet, itunes included. Most of the bands I discovered through P2P are still not in iTunes, let alone other less complete stores.
I always thought "Programs" would have been a perfectly suitable option. Fits in 8.3. No space. Obvious. Easy to type e.g from command line. Some people used it already.
"Program Files" seems like committee decision making at it's worst.
Think for a moment. What about the people who aren't buying iPod BECAUSE it is restricted and can't play the formats they want? Or doesn't have the features they want?
That's me.
Hear hear! In the Audigy 2 software I got, the functions are quite good, but the UI is quite odd. For instance the "system menu" button is now as wide as the title text in the title bar.
On the topic of "not working as well as you'd like"... it has a nice THX speaker calibration which works quite well, but when you enter the "simple" speaker calibration it deletes the enter THX calibration without warning! Unfortunately, there are some settings that are only accessible through the simple calibration, like subwoofer settings.
I only did the THX calibration twice before deciding that was not really a good use of my time.
I agree, and perhaps this is what Intel fears; essentially CPUs have reached good enough level for most things and the real progress now should be towards cheaper, cooler CPUs. VIA should do well:)
All those things are pretty much done already, where appropriate. Browsers use several threads for doing different things. Antivirus work in the background. The GPU runs in parallel with the main cpu.
There is not much room for improvement on the desktop. Most things are I/O bound or have a single major task that takes most of CPU (e.g. layout in a word processor or browser) and is not friendly to multitasking by its nature.
Anyway, desktop apps don't stretch modern cpus. As always, its games and video that stretch desktops. Certainly, games could be made much more parallel, there must be dozens of things going on that could be done at the same time from the basic world data. Perhaps they are...
But it can't play music unless it's loaded with iTunes. Still useful, but much less than it could be. I can see why (to stop casual piracy) but it still sucks.
Are you dreaming? Most retail operations (with certain exceptions, such as software downloads) don't offer worldwide shipping. By far the majority ship only to their own country. I know this from experience; go looking for someone who will ship outside the US for a computer part; I'll be lucky to find one in ten.
So your motivations are:
- to use 3d hardware
- to make pretty effects
Neither of those has anything to do with making interfaces easier or more productive. The first one doesn't matter to a *user* at all - it's purely an engineering thing.
Clearly, lots of people in this thread are dismayed at the thought of more Flash. Therefore, presenting a way to block it is entirely interesting, useful and informative. Why are you insulting the poster?
At least there's one consolation I can take - that, beyond the point of no return, I'm no longer boring to myself. I can smile a little sociopathic smile to myself as I go to sleep at night, secure in the knowledge that now, my overabundance of boredom is Someone Else's Problem.
Ironically, neither of those flash animations explain much to me... the gearbox one is particularly incomprehensible...
Still, I think everyone agrees that for vector animation, flash is fine, more efficient than any other common browser tech. It's just everything else that it sucks for - navigation, text, bitmapped images. Sure you can work around the limitations, but why would you?
The point to remember is that: a web page is NOT supposed to look and feel the same everywhere.
Strangely, everyone is more concerned about making sure it adds up correctly every time, and has the thousand-and-one integration features for store management, than making it pretty...
I still use Mozilla Mail (it's largely the same as TB) but there are a few serious issues that keep me unhappy: - frequently fills in addresses wrong (bug 93453) - searching body text is extremely slow (no indexing) and you can't make it faster by pre-filtering on subject (bug 154867) - can't delete attachments from received mail (bug 2920) - can't copy the name from displayed addresses (bug 232021) - can't paste images into mail (bug 47838) although this is supposedly fixed in TB itself.
These bother me on a regular basis. Seeing something like "saved searches" go in while these much more basic things remain unfixed makes me wonder if there is anyone seriously working on TB/Moz mail. (I am trying to learn how to develop Mozilla - so far got a working build - but most of these are quite involved).
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Maybe true, however, a lot of people want to take their document somewhere else to print it, and they really don't want to discover the whole style of the document has changed when they load it into... Microsoft Word.
That would be pretty much a rewrite. Just as easy to say, "port it to Visual Basic"
Email Address Munging
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The fact that raw email addresses are displayed in Bugzilla makes it trivial for bots that spamharvest to spider through Bugzilla, in particular, through Bugzilla's buglists. This change adds HTML obfuscation of email addresses as they appear in the Bugzilla web pages.
Popup 1: Do you want to download our software while browsing our site? (ok/cancel)
Popup 2: Start playing poker now - no download required! (ok/cancel)
Hm... so what would OK do the second time then?
Sorry, but every gambling site I have ever seen does things that are at least annoying.
The fact is that business software like this is so complicated to develop and debug, that even if the UI is crap it can still be useful. That's business reality.
How do you find this music, though?
If you go to a record store, you can maybe randomly look at things in the (extremely broad) genre you heard of. Each time take it to the counter, ask to listen, wait a minute or so while they find it, load it, listen. This is extremely inefficient, slow, and annoys the staff, and isn't feasible for more than one or two people to do in a store at once.
On the other hand, if you can simply chat or read on the net about bands, then download tracks from there right then and there, you can efficiently decide whether or not they are interesting to you. A good music store can do this too, but such a good music store doesnt exist yet, itunes included. Most of the bands I discovered through P2P are still not in iTunes, let alone other less complete stores.
He said Windows 2000.
You misunderstand. *Mozilla* would be chasing the moving target of (nonstandard) IE Javascript.
Thank you for today's example of naive Apple fanboyishness.
I always thought "Programs" would have been a perfectly suitable option. Fits in 8.3. No space. Obvious. Easy to type e.g from command line. Some people used it already. "Program Files" seems like committee decision making at it's worst.
What's your point?
Think for a moment. What about the people who aren't buying iPod BECAUSE it is restricted and can't play the formats they want? Or doesn't have the features they want? That's me.
Hear hear! In the Audigy 2 software I got, the functions are quite good, but the UI is quite odd. For instance the "system menu" button is now as wide as the title text in the title bar. On the topic of "not working as well as you'd like"... it has a nice THX speaker calibration which works quite well, but when you enter the "simple" speaker calibration it deletes the enter THX calibration without warning! Unfortunately, there are some settings that are only accessible through the simple calibration, like subwoofer settings. I only did the THX calibration twice before deciding that was not really a good use of my time.
I agree, and perhaps this is what Intel fears; essentially CPUs have reached good enough level for most things and the real progress now should be towards cheaper, cooler CPUs. VIA should do well :)
All those things are pretty much done already, where appropriate. Browsers use several threads for doing different things. Antivirus work in the background. The GPU runs in parallel with the main cpu. There is not much room for improvement on the desktop. Most things are I/O bound or have a single major task that takes most of CPU (e.g. layout in a word processor or browser) and is not friendly to multitasking by its nature. Anyway, desktop apps don't stretch modern cpus. As always, its games and video that stretch desktops. Certainly, games could be made much more parallel, there must be dozens of things going on that could be done at the same time from the basic world data. Perhaps they are...
But it can't play music unless it's loaded with iTunes. Still useful, but much less than it could be. I can see why (to stop casual piracy) but it still sucks.
Are you dreaming? Most retail operations (with certain exceptions, such as software downloads) don't offer worldwide shipping. By far the majority ship only to their own country. I know this from experience; go looking for someone who will ship outside the US for a computer part; I'll be lucky to find one in ten.
So your motivations are: - to use 3d hardware - to make pretty effects Neither of those has anything to do with making interfaces easier or more productive. The first one doesn't matter to a *user* at all - it's purely an engineering thing.
Scalable Vector Graphics is getting network support??? Glad to see no-one is getting carried away.
Clearly, lots of people in this thread are dismayed at the thought of more Flash. Therefore, presenting a way to block it is entirely interesting, useful and informative. Why are you insulting the poster?
Hehe! I laughed madly at your blog!
Classic! I might have written it myself :)
Ironically, neither of those flash animations explain much to me ... the gearbox one is particularly incomprehensible ...
Still, I think everyone agrees that for vector animation, flash is fine, more efficient than any other common browser tech. It's just everything else that it sucks for - navigation, text, bitmapped images. Sure you can work around the limitations, but why would you?
The point to remember is that: a web page is NOT supposed to look and feel the same everywhere.
So, you have to use a bunch of other technologies to solve the problem, but it's not Flash's fault? Riiight...
Strangely, everyone is more concerned about making sure it adds up correctly every time, and has the thousand-and-one integration features for store management, than making it pretty...
I still use Mozilla Mail (it's largely the same as TB) but there are a few serious issues that keep me unhappy:
- frequently fills in addresses wrong (bug 93453)
- searching body text is extremely slow (no indexing) and you can't make it faster by pre-filtering on subject (bug 154867)
- can't delete attachments from received mail (bug 2920)
- can't copy the name from displayed addresses (bug 232021)
- can't paste images into mail (bug 47838) although this is supposedly fixed in TB itself.
These bother me on a regular basis. Seeing something like "saved searches" go in while these much more basic things remain unfixed makes me wonder if there is anyone seriously working on TB/Moz mail. (I am trying to learn how to develop Mozilla - so far got a working build - but most of these are quite involved).