Whether Trolltech are "keen" or not, Qt being GPL doesn't prevent Eclipse releasing *source* for their binding. It only screws over people who want to *redistribute* Qt.
There is a bug open on the Eclipse tracker for Qt support. Every now and then I've been bugging them to see if they'd implement it, and I always wondered how many other people were bugging them. Obviously not enough.:-)
My suspicion is that it's not so much licencing issues, but that they haven't actually implemented it. It's not even in source control under the "qt" directory...
I found under Windows that the OpenGL renderer is less than perfect (it renders missing letters in words and frequent black rectangles over the map even after it's supposedly fully loaded.)
But it also has a "DirectX" renderer (I presume they mean either Direct3D or DirectDraw but refuse to say which.)
Is it faster on Linux now as well as Windows? SWT on Linux has always been a real dog, and I'm keen for it to get faster because (a) it's the only thing stopping me using it over Swing, and (b) I run Azureus, which is amazingly slow because of it.
Let's hope that they release the API well enough in advance so that those of us under the tyranny of antisocial companies which only release binary drivers can actually have working drivers when it's released.
Instead of AdBlock not loading the ad at all, when something matches its filter, it should follow the link, spider that entire web site, and then throw all that data into/dev/null.
I know what you mean. I'm pissed off that we pay over $50/month for cable TV, and those assholes still have the nerve to display ads. Where is AdBlock for our TV set? And I don't mean Tivo... Tivo can only do it after the fact.:-/
You're a web site publisher with little ad revenue left. What do you do? Your training is not in marketing, it's maybe in business development. Are you going to sit there and try to invent a new form of advertising that isn't patented by Google, or are you just going to say "screw it" and charge for the use of your site?
I suppose if the site were actually popular, you'd use Google's ads yourself. No point stressing about patents by making a fake, when you can just use the real thing.
Thing is, all this really hairy JavaScript of which you speak... this is all part of IE7, so we don't have to write it. IE users just suffer a couple dozen kilobytes of extra download.:-)
Switching on the User-Agent is a no-no. We already have THREE ways to degrade content for user agents which don't support it:
The XHTML <object> tag supports nesting. If the browser can't display the outer one it's supposed to render the inner one. So you put a flash movie on the outer one, an image on the inner one, and a link to the image inside that.
CSS in its entirety is designed around this principle of graceful degradation. Make something a certain style, and if the browser doesn't support CSS, it just doesn't get the style.
The HTTP "Accept" header can be used when you need to know what formats the agent can support. So if you want to know if they want HTML, XHTML or WML, look at this header and deliver the right page. It can be used to do the flash/image trick too, if you have an <object> with two types (although I think this trick is only really going to come into its prime in XHTML 2.0.)
Given this, we would seem to have no excuse for doing user agent switching.
Or perhaps I'm just biased, having actually read the standards documents in question...
It's relatively easy to make complex pages which look the same on all browsers and use exactly the same HTML. CSS is another story... it seems that many web authors simply haven't discovered IE7 yet, so they author their pages for IE instead of the standard.
So in the end, you have to blame the web sites for not being standards compliant in the first place. If they all were, eventually Microsoft would have to fix their issue or die not being able to render any sites at all.
Opening the source wouldn't help as much as opening the protocol itself... that way people could make new clients without needing to refer to the source, and you wouldn't have to worry so much about the protocol being changed underneath you.
Whereas the article title hints to RSS being the new search, it isn't really the case unless you're talking about sites like PubSub which really do convert search queries into RSS (or pushed feeds.)
Slashdot Mirror
I thought that one was patented by Google.
Jung n pebpx bs fuvg. Whfg orpnhfr fbzrbar xabjf ubj gb hafpnzoyr fbzrguvat qbrfa'g zrna vg'f bxnl gb jevgr guvatf fpenzoyrq nyy gur gvzr. V zlfrys xrrc n gvtug cbyvpl abg gb boshfpngr nalguvat V fnl va choyvp, rkprcg jura qbar va n uvtuyl vebavp snfuvba.
The first point isn't necessarily true. I know plenty a bookworm who still can't spell. ;-)
So why bother replying when my comment mentioned source instead of binaries? There are no licencing issues with the source...
Whether Trolltech are "keen" or not, Qt being GPL doesn't prevent Eclipse releasing *source* for their binding. It only screws over people who want to *redistribute* Qt.
There is a bug open on the Eclipse tracker for Qt support. Every now and then I've been bugging them to see if they'd implement it, and I always wondered how many other people were bugging them. Obviously not enough. :-)
My suspicion is that it's not so much licencing issues, but that they haven't actually implemented it. It's not even in source control under the "qt" directory...
I found under Windows that the OpenGL renderer is less than perfect (it renders missing letters in words and frequent black rectangles over the map even after it's supposedly fully loaded.)
But it also has a "DirectX" renderer (I presume they mean either Direct3D or DirectDraw but refuse to say which.)
Does that mode work under Wine too?
Is it faster on Linux now as well as Windows? SWT on Linux has always been a real dog, and I'm keen for it to get faster because (a) it's the only thing stopping me using it over Swing, and (b) I run Azureus, which is amazingly slow because of it.
Let's hope that they release the API well enough in advance so that those of us under the tyranny of antisocial companies which only release binary drivers can actually have working drivers when it's released.
Reboot into Windows? Huh? And stop all my torrents from downloading?
Let's hope you're talking about OASIS OpenDocument format, because if you're just talking about another shitty WordML, you can go fuck yourselves.
Damn, now you're onto something.
Instead of AdBlock not loading the ad at all, when something matches its filter, it should follow the link, spider that entire web site, and then throw all that data into /dev/null.
Fight ads back!
Sure, if you can actually see the content past the DoubleClick popups...
I know what you mean. I'm pissed off that we pay over $50/month for cable TV, and those assholes still have the nerve to display ads. Where is AdBlock for our TV set? And I don't mean Tivo... Tivo can only do it after the fact. :-/
You're a web site publisher with little ad revenue left. What do you do? Your training is not in marketing, it's maybe in business development. Are you going to sit there and try to invent a new form of advertising that isn't patented by Google, or are you just going to say "screw it" and charge for the use of your site?
I suppose if the site were actually popular, you'd use Google's ads yourself. No point stressing about patents by making a fake, when you can just use the real thing.
"I'll twist the question for you though. I use postfix, does sendmail do something postfix doen't?"
Sure. It's guaranteed to cause a headache within one hour of installation.
The PC version was beta for at least that long. :-)
1. You wouldn't be in direct control of the soldiers, they'd just go where they wanted to.
And this is different from Counter-Strike how, exactly?
Thing is, all this really hairy JavaScript of which you speak... this is all part of IE7, so we don't have to write it. IE users just suffer a couple dozen kilobytes of extra download. :-)
Switching on the User-Agent is a no-no. We already have THREE ways to degrade content for user agents which don't support it:
Given this, we would seem to have no excuse for doing user agent switching.
Or perhaps I'm just biased, having actually read the standards documents in question...
Well, yes and no.
It's relatively easy to make complex pages which look the same on all browsers and use exactly the same HTML. CSS is another story... it seems that many web authors simply haven't discovered IE7 yet, so they author their pages for IE instead of the standard.
So in the end, you have to blame the web sites for not being standards compliant in the first place. If they all were, eventually Microsoft would have to fix their issue or die not being able to render any sites at all.
Yeah. Windows file sharing will never run on Linux either.
Opening the source wouldn't help as much as opening the protocol itself... that way people could make new clients without needing to refer to the source, and you wouldn't have to worry so much about the protocol being changed underneath you.
Whereas the article title hints to RSS being the new search, it isn't really the case unless you're talking about sites like PubSub which really do convert search queries into RSS (or pushed feeds.)
But you're missing the fact that 21 base 4.5 would be 4.5 * 2 + 1. That isn't 1.