That being the case, did Microsoft ever release the Instant Search option as a separate download from any Windows OS? I can't think of any time they ever did that to my recollection. In fact, as someone else pointed out, searching is not only integral to the file systems of an OS, but it's been included in Windows from quite a ways back (if not as efficiently as it currently is implemented in Vista.)
Get your prejudices straight. EverQuest and Ultima Online are pretty old... and still in operation for that matter. EQ turned eight this year, Ultima Online turns ten in a few months.
WoW and EQ2 are fairly young in comparison at just over two and a half years old.
The normal graceful fail would also be acceptable.
That's usually having the item that spawns the drop-down menu being a link to some sort of top-level page that also lists the items that were in the menu.
Oops, forgot to escape in the last sentence. It should read:
IE6 and IE7 are the only browsers to support the CSS text-align on a <col> element. By definition, this also means that Firefox, Opera, and Safari still don't support all of HTML4 and CSS1.
Now that you've said that, I'm going to point out that Firefox is the reason that I have to assign an align to every td in a table rather than just applying it to a col element.
Side notes: Now that I can test Safari on Windows, it doesn't support it either.
Another side note: IE6 and IE7 are the only browsers to support the CSS text-align on a element. By definition, this also means that Firefox, Opera, and Safari still don't support all of HTML4 and CSS1.
I have a completely different list of words from the Internet that irritate me.
For example, my list starts out with "u" and "r" and continues with other words that are caused by people being too lazy to type the extra few characters that real words contain.
"I will never own a Mac until Steverino departs the scene..."
So, you have an older PowerMac, then right? Scully was more your cup of tea?
I don't see in that quote anywhere where it says the poster owns a Mac, and the topic "Apple on Windows" seems to imply that he doesn't.
I've never seen this itunes error, and I use fast user switching all the time. On OSX it just simply works.:)
It isn't Windows issuing this error, though. Windows itself doesn't care if you have 5 copies of a program running at the same time. Heck, I can run 5 copies of other music players over top of one another and Windows just doesn't care. It proceeds to play all of them at once. It's the player that has the toggle (usually turned on) that prevents multiple copies of the same program from running at once.
Of course, that's part of why I think Safari on Windows is silly - itunes on Windows is silly too. Broken crap under Windows doesn't convert people to use Mac, it just pisses them off.
I'm only going to address points I disagree with or someone else hasn't covered.
1. More elegant UI (I admit, this is mostly preference. Firefox isn't bad, and *much* better on Windows at this point. Safari needs a lot of UI work on Windows.)
This works fine on Macs, but it sticks out like a sore thumb in Windows. Plus, Firefox is themeable.
3. Close buttons for each tab in each tab (yes, I know Firefox finally got on board with this in v2.0)
4. Integrates with Apple's Keychain, so I only have to set up my encryption certificates once for both Mail.app and Safari.
OS specific; doesn't apply to Safari for Windows.
5. Safari is better at resuming stalled downloads.
I've never really noticed Firefox having problems resuming stalled downloads. Plus, with Firefox, I can install Addon: DownThemAll! and have it download multiple fragments of the same file simultaneously.
The GP was comparing the Safari beta to the original releases of Firefox, which is a fair comparison. Pre-release builds of Firefox 3 are not a fair comparison. First, Mozilla started out with a stable product. Secondly, they don't even put unstable features on the trunk. You'd have to be building a branch for it to be unstable -- and it would still be based on a stable product.
Are you implying that Safari for Mac, what Safari for Windows is based upon, is unstable?
My point is that the interface of the app window is identical or near-identical on both platforms, so some dipshit whining that it's "not windows enough" is a moot point, since Safari isn't trying to be "windows" at all.
Then why does it have the usual Windows minimize, maximize, and close buttons rather than the green, yellow, and red buttons that OSX has?
No, to some extent it tries to behave like a Windows application. The problem is that it only does a half-assed job of it.
There's a difference between forcing people to do something and them doing what they want.
For instance, if I own an iPod, I'm forced to use iTunes to update it. I don't even have to download it, because it comes on a CD with the iPod, which makes your "fact" highly misleading at best.
Downloading a new web browser because it looks like the one on my iPhone isn't in the same category.
Then what's the point of using Firefox? It isn't any faster or less of a memory hog than Safari, but Safari has better standards compliance and faster JavaScript.
The frist two points are part of the reason I use Opera... it uses less memory and, in most instances, is faster than Firefox. I don't know about Javascript execution speed, but it does have better standards support than Firefox.
I only dabble in page design, but I have to keep Firefox because every time I try to create a new layout for my personal site, I seem to find things that IE6 supports but Firefox doesn't, which I find unreasonable considering how buggy IE is.
Seriously, there was a time when Firefox nee Firebird nee Phoenix was the "streamlined" version of Mozilla. Then it was a simple browser. Now, even without any extensions installed, it's a hog as much as Mozilla was then.
I personally haven't tested it, but one of my friends mentioned to me that Seamonkey (the new Mozilla suite) runs faster on his computer than Firefox does.
It's not what I would call "XSS" (those, I thought, had to do with code on one frame or tab accessing objects on another, and are therefore browser problems, not site problems)
As I understand XSS, it is any vulnerability that lets one inject code, usually javascript, into output from one site, causing data to be sent to another site. In my experience, it is usually caused by a site not filtering input correctly rather than a problem with a browser.
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I agree, mod grandparent up.
Yes.
Too bad I'm out of mod points, or else this would get a +1, Funny.
Get your prejudices straight. EverQuest and Ultima Online are pretty old... and still in operation for that matter. EQ turned eight this year, Ultima Online turns ten in a few months.
WoW and EQ2 are fairly young in comparison at just over two and a half years old.
Opera Mini vs. iPhone is my favorite iPhone video.
Seriously, though, I don't have a cellphone, but this doesn't look like it's Watered Down to me.
The normal graceful fail would also be acceptable.
That's usually having the item that spawns the drop-down menu being a link to some sort of top-level page that also lists the items that were in the menu.
Oops, forgot to escape in the last sentence. It should read:
IE6 and IE7 are the only browsers to support the CSS text-align on a <col> element. By definition, this also means that Firefox, Opera, and Safari still don't support all of HTML4 and CSS1.
Now that you've said that, I'm going to point out that Firefox is the reason that I have to assign an align to every td in a table rather than just applying it to a col element.
Side notes:
Now that I can test Safari on Windows, it doesn't support it either.
Another side note:
IE6 and IE7 are the only browsers to support the CSS text-align on a element. By definition, this also means that Firefox, Opera, and Safari still don't support all of HTML4 and CSS1.
Safari 3.0.1 beta for Windows Results:
From the 43 selectors 25 have passed, 9 are buggy and 9 are unsupported (Passed 346 out of 578 tests)
I have a completely different list of words from the Internet that irritate me.
For example, my list starts out with "u" and "r" and continues with other words that are caused by people being too lazy to type the extra few characters that real words contain.
As a non-Mac user, I'm curious as to which programs utilize Address Book?
I don't see in that quote anywhere where it says the poster owns a Mac, and the topic "Apple on Windows" seems to imply that he doesn't.
It isn't Windows issuing this error, though. Windows itself doesn't care if you have 5 copies of a program running at the same time. Heck, I can run 5 copies of other music players over top of one another and Windows just doesn't care. It proceeds to play all of them at once. It's the player that has the toggle (usually turned on) that prevents multiple copies of the same program from running at once.
This is something I agree with.
Simple, it should check to see if the first word is an adjective!
While we're at it, iTunes should spellcheck all field tags and automatically fix them. I'm sure that wouldn't cause any problems!
This works fine on Macs, but it sticks out like a sore thumb in Windows. Plus, Firefox is themeable.
Addon: Tab Mix Plus
OS specific; doesn't apply to Safari for Windows.
I've never really noticed Firefox having problems resuming stalled downloads. Plus, with Firefox, I can install Addon: DownThemAll! and have it download multiple fragments of the same file simultaneously.
Clear Private Data, Addon: Stealther
OS specific; doesn't apply to Safari on Windows. Additionally, Firefox has an Addon Category: Bookmarks, many of which deal with synchronizing. A popular one is Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer.
Synchronizing bookmarks should be easier in the next version because it uses an SQLite database as opposed to an HTML file.
P.S. Opera's my default browser, before you accuse me of being a Firefox fanboy.
Are you implying that Safari for Mac, what Safari for Windows is based upon, is unstable?
Right, but AC also said it was one of the greatest audio clips ever.
I probably should have quoted that part in my own post, as I was ignoring the offensive part.
I don't know, Blizzard had some great ones, too.
For example, the human peasants (units that build buildings) in Warcraft II will say, after you've clicked them enough times:
"Now what?"
"More work?!"
"Leave me alone"
"I don't wanna do this"
"I'm not listening"
Alleria, a female elf that only appears in certain levels, has this to say (keeping in mind that the cursor is a hand)
"You never touch the other elves like that"
"Do that again and you'll pull back a stump"
Most of them aren't funny. The really funny ones appear in Starcraft and Warcraft III.
and every time copyright gets extended, expect to see another case similar to Eldred v. Ashcroft until the government finally loses.
This story was posted for all viewers at one point earlier today (before the Ubuntu validates as Windows story).
In fact, some of the comments made then appear to have been deleted.
Then why does it have the usual Windows minimize, maximize, and close buttons rather than the green, yellow, and red buttons that OSX has?
No, to some extent it tries to behave like a Windows application. The problem is that it only does a half-assed job of it.
There's a difference between forcing people to do something and them doing what they want.
For instance, if I own an iPod, I'm forced to use iTunes to update it. I don't even have to download it, because it comes on a CD with the iPod, which makes your "fact" highly misleading at best.
Downloading a new web browser because it looks like the one on my iPhone isn't in the same category.
The frist two points are part of the reason I use Opera... it uses less memory and, in most instances, is faster than Firefox. I don't know about Javascript execution speed, but it does have better standards support than Firefox.
I only dabble in page design, but I have to keep Firefox because every time I try to create a new layout for my personal site, I seem to find things that IE6 supports but Firefox doesn't, which I find unreasonable considering how buggy IE is.
I personally haven't tested it, but one of my friends mentioned to me that Seamonkey (the new Mozilla suite) runs faster on his computer than Firefox does.
Well, the original poster could just choose one from the FSF's list of GPL Compatible Licenses.
As I understand XSS, it is any vulnerability that lets one inject code, usually javascript, into output from one site, causing data to be sent to another site. In my experience, it is usually caused by a site not filtering input correctly rather than a problem with a browser.
There's also this device called a "fax machine" that you could use. That's what people used before email became popular.
That is, unless you were talking about shipping the document via some sort of storage media (diskette/CD/flash drive).