Well almost all bundle computers come poorly configured due to laziness, so presumably the "good configuration" is "not good enough to sell computers" either.:-)
Besides, web browsers don't sell computers. When was the last time you saw someone say "I bought this computer, cos I saw this demo app running on it called Internet Explorer and it looked fully sick"?
It can't be that obscure. I think even The Simpsons had a go at it actually. And even the first time I saw that episode, I think everyone watching it with me screamed "Oh, the humanity!" out of force of habit, before it was actually spoken.
Yeah, what we need is all those computer manufacturers to bundle Firefox with the OS, preconfigured as the default browser and what-not. And from what I've seen in OEM contracts in the past, there is nothing to particularly stop the PC manufacturers doing this (unless things changed fairly recently), it's just that the manufacturers are just as lazy as the users, and can't be bothered changing the defaults.
I do use something else! I use Mozilla Firefox on Windows, and Konqueror on Linux.
However, you seem to be forgetting that people visit my web sites who aren't me.
To account for those users, you have the options I mentioned. (a) use something like IE7 to allow you to use 100% standards compliant HTML and CSS to build your site, or (b) use non-standards-compliant crap on your site.
Since you hate the IE7 idea so much, you must not be fond of standards compliance, which is highly ironic since you seem to be for it in every other way.
Using IE7 might be helping Microsoft, but it's helping yourself far more. If you don't use it, then you might get a warm and fuzzy feeling by not "helping" Microsoft, but you lose half the features of CSS2 at the same time, making your sites suck more. It's really up to the developer.:-/
That reminds me, I always wanted to make a game called "steal this game", but for some reason I keep suspecting that no publisher will pick it up anyway... and calling it "steal this game" doesn't really work if you release it open source.
Ranking pages based on the content is damn near impossible when the idiots who wrote the page have no idea how to properly mark one up. The best you can do is strip the tags and use the text.
I think the idea is pretty good. It might encourage people to mark up their pages more semantically, and that might in turn lead to better ways to search.
The specification is frozen, but that doesn't stop Google extending RSS 2.0 with its own custom elements. In fact, the RSS 2.0 schema permits this explicitly.
IMO, a news aggregator which can't already provide the ability to extend its reach via XSL is a poor tool. A sane developer would take the path of least surprise, implementing multiple formats by transforming them all to a single format, so they don't have to fuck around with the multiple formats in the real code.
But if you're stuck with someone else's system which can't parse RSS 2.0, you can obviously cheat by using something like the W3C's online XSL transformer to convert the 2.0 feeds to a format which you can already understand.
You can probably find XSL files for converting between different RSS formats already.
Yeah, and it's really hard to write a script to make Doxygen work the same way... and anyway, Visual Age did have this feature before the patent was even lodged, like I've said already.
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Well almost all bundle computers come poorly configured due to laziness, so presumably the "good configuration" is "not good enough to sell computers" either. :-)
Besides, web browsers don't sell computers. When was the last time you saw someone say "I bought this computer, cos I saw this demo app running on it called Internet Explorer and it looked fully sick"?
(And yes, I'm feeding the troll.)
Well for standards compliance, you might use something like HLink for the sort of things XBL and behaviours are currently used for.
But presumably we'll have to hack XBL and behaviours bindings to get HLink to work anyway. :-)
Pfft. Linux for the desktop was vaporware long before DNF was announced.
It can't be that obscure. I think even The Simpsons had a go at it actually. And even the first time I saw that episode, I think everyone watching it with me screamed "Oh, the humanity!" out of force of habit, before it was actually spoken.
Aside from startup speed, there is no issue at runtime. But yeah, the memory usage is fucked. 40MB for 6 pages open? Jesus.
Well one thing us Jabber transport admins know from the MSN numbering is that they change the protocol every major version...
... however that is a pretty fucked thing to do to justify a new version number.
Xbox Live is just a combination of two products (game finding and voice chat) which have both been on the PC for years...
As for apps cloning Microsoft functionality, I see many more cloning OSX functionality these days.
Yeah, what we need is all those computer manufacturers to bundle Firefox with the OS, preconfigured as the default browser and what-not. And from what I've seen in OEM contracts in the past, there is nothing to particularly stop the PC manufacturers doing this (unless things changed fairly recently), it's just that the manufacturers are just as lazy as the users, and can't be bothered changing the defaults.
Mozilla's equivalent to 'behaviours', XBL, is actually more powerful than Internet Explorer's.
As a demonstration of this, one elite scripter has implemented CSS behaviours using XBL.
You just pull in the script and most of the IE behaviours will "just work." Demos on-site. :-)
... but Betamax is inferior to EVD... ;-)
I do use something else! I use Mozilla Firefox on Windows, and Konqueror on Linux.
However, you seem to be forgetting that people visit my web sites who aren't me.
To account for those users, you have the options I mentioned. (a) use something like IE7 to allow you to use 100% standards compliant HTML and CSS to build your site, or (b) use non-standards-compliant crap on your site.
Since you hate the IE7 idea so much, you must not be fond of standards compliance, which is highly ironic since you seem to be for it in every other way.
OMG you forgot Natalie Portman, you insensitive clod!
Using IE7 might be helping Microsoft, but it's helping yourself far more. If you don't use it, then you might get a warm and fuzzy feeling by not "helping" Microsoft, but you lose half the features of CSS2 at the same time, making your sites suck more. It's really up to the developer. :-/
Or in fact, anyone at all who has heard the expression, "too many cooks spoil the broth."
Replace 'retarded programmer' with 'retarded managing director' and you're on the mark.
The level of virus scanning is irrelevant (I have none at home, and never get infected.) The idiot still ran the file. :-)
That reminds me, I always wanted to make a game called "steal this game", but for some reason I keep suspecting that no publisher will pick it up anyway... and calling it "steal this game" doesn't really work if you release it open source.
As if I care. The person on the other end of the line doesn't even have an identity. :-)
Question: what do you get if you merge Atom and RSS?
Answer: Atom.
So it sounds good to me. :-)
Or instead of waiting for IE to be fixed, you could cheat.
Ranking pages based on the content is damn near impossible when the idiots who wrote the page have no idea how to properly mark one up. The best you can do is strip the tags and use the text.
I think the idea is pretty good. It might encourage people to mark up their pages more semantically, and that might in turn lead to better ways to search.
The specification is frozen, but that doesn't stop Google extending RSS 2.0 with its own custom elements. In fact, the RSS 2.0 schema permits this explicitly.
IMO, a news aggregator which can't already provide the ability to extend its reach via XSL is a poor tool. A sane developer would take the path of least surprise, implementing multiple formats by transforming them all to a single format, so they don't have to fuck around with the multiple formats in the real code.
But if you're stuck with someone else's system which can't parse RSS 2.0, you can obviously cheat by using something like the W3C's online XSL transformer to convert the 2.0 feeds to a format which you can already understand.
You can probably find XSL files for converting between different RSS formats already.
RSS is read-only, and Atom, as well as being an easier format to grok, can be used to publish entries, as well as retrieving them.
Why should anyone have to prove anything to someone too cowardly to use a real user account?
Yeah, and it's really hard to write a script to make Doxygen work the same way... and anyway, Visual Age did have this feature before the patent was even lodged, like I've said already.