>But it's crap. Opera never was just a browser. Anyone who speaks fondly of "the good old days when Opera was just a fast browser" obviously haven't been using Opera for very long, and they are showing some incredible ignorance.
I'm the linked blogger for the entry on Making Opera Look Like A Browser Again, and I've been with Opera since v3. In retrospect, my claim that Opera is "going the Netscape way" was incorrect, especially since much of the bloat about which I complained was in Selector Panels, not in the overall installer size. (Still 3.4MB!) My complaint had nothing to do with ads so much as with the crufty layout of the new interface. While other Opera users may like having IRC, "Notes," and syndication in their sidebar, I was putting forward a way to get all that out of the user's face and putting the browser back at full front and center.
But what you say is quite true, and maybe I should have phrased my blog entry differently. Opera was never just a plain-vanilla browser, but for the time I've used it, I've used it primarily for its browsing capabilities, and nothing else. That's what I love about Opera: the browser, so in my use of Opera, let nothing get in the browser's way.
> I recommend you use one shot from the glock, just because it's funnier
Heh, nothing to do with speedrunning, but I remember once trying to kill Nihilanth by ladning in his brain and using the crowbar, just because I could. Worked, too.
Just watched it pass by from the National Mall in DC. Unfortunately the clouds were obscuring Jupiter, but the station itself emerged from behind them and zoomed straight overhead. Very nice.
There are cases where an unattributed or can be used, such as when abstracting with child selectors, but yes, you're indeed correct in saying that <em> and other such semantic elements mean much more than generic tags.
(I think we're talking in different languages, because as a designer I was thinking of red as an error color for admin purposes only, which would never make it onto the body of the public page itself.):D
Yesterday in the office: I had my iBook beside me, running Celestia. Try this: Current time, realtime, Select ISS, Go to ISS, Sync Orbit. Maneuver a bit around the station till you're where the Destiny module window is, then adjust the viewpoint so you get a nice horizon view. (Or just Track Sol.) Then just leave it running. Voila: anytime you feel like seeing what the ISS crew can see from Destiny, just look at Celestia.:)
(Interestingly enough, comparing the Celestia ISS view with the Station Location website, I found that Celestia's synchronization is a teeny bit off, but not by much. Nice work!)
That was the three-armed, three-legged Lt. Arex. He came up in the ST comics a lot, too, where he filled the Navigator position (since Chekov was Tactical chief).
Wiggled! Thank you, thank you, JPL, for making mission photos so available to everyone. This is exciting stuff.
<font> is just as useless in Lynx/Google
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If this were XML, we could define an or tag or even ; but this being X/HTML, we want to use id and class attributes to identify a line of text/code within given standards. The example given in parent, , usually means "error" or "important," so using class="error" or class="important" is far more meaningful to the coder than a deprecated tag, and can be made meaningful in any manner to the general audience with CSS.
>How useful is the meaningless element type in situations where CSS is not used (Lynx, Google, etc)?
- In Lynx, about as useful as the <font> tag, eh? But proper structure and hierarchical markup with headers, paragraphs, and properly identified <div> blocks will work wonders: making clear to searchbots what text is important, and giving disabled users an easily-navigable nonvisual UI. Then, the document can be easily (?) styled for prettiness in normal browsers, while still retaining an intelligible structure for other environments.
Even plain, unclassed <span> tags are useful when nested inside parent blocks, since these can be styled as descendant CSS selectors without suffering from acute classitis. Plus, <span> is standards-compliant, and <font> is deprecated.
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Ah, but is far more semantic, and with a declaration of span.error{color: red;} , you can change any of the error spans to any color, font, or style you wish with just a line of text, instead of hunting through KBs and KBs of code to search/replace any tags you might have missed.
...the general expectation is that their email program will be a full PIM suite....
I have no such expectations; Thunderbird is my main email client precisely because it doesn't try to be a full PIM suite. I manage my own calendar, contacts, and To-Do lists by other means, and I don't want yet more do-everything-for-you bloatware when all I really need is plain old email functionality.
"...take the easy path: I brought you a suite of applications that all work together." - Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light
Of course, we all know from the cool CG pictures what buckyballs/tubes look like as molecules, but what does the stuff look like to the naked eye, e.g. in a test tube? Is it a vapor, or does C60 form into a gray "buckygoo," or does it exist as a powder or solid? Anyone have pictures of that?
It's a matter of probability; it's the the large, boring expanses of Earth that are more likely to get meteor strikes: e.g.: Pacific Ocean, Siberia, Canada...
Shamelessy reposted with some edits from Metafilter.......But what is that glint to the left side?
I thought at first it was just a digital photo artifact, but seeing as how the flash of white appears in several photos from Spirit's navcam on Sol66, my next thought was ALIEN BUILDINGS!!!
Okay, not really. My next thought was that it might be the lander's backshell or heatshield. So I looked up a map of the rover's intended route, and orbital images of the landing site with labels. Take a look at the photos, the maps, and the scales. Apparently the lander's heatshield had impacted a nearby crater; that's Bonneville.
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Duh.
- Just press G, and images are toggled on/off/cached for slow connections.
- Ctrl-G, and styles are toggled on/off to see page structure on CSS layouts. (Also great for unreadable white-on-black 9px Verdana websites)
- Ctrl-Alt-J, and IRC is there to distract me from design.
- 1 and 2, and I can switch between tabs.
I love this browser's functionality via keyboard alone (I don't even use mouse gestures). You don't get all that from Firefox right out of the box.Two questions: was the cockpit door open, and were there any unruly children or frat brats with laser pointers near the front of the plane?
Oops, it's for Zire 72. Must RTFA next time. Sorry.
You'll definitely need this to HotSync your Zire 71 when the stupid internal sync/charge cable problem starts kicking in as it has on mine.
>But it's crap. Opera never was just a browser. Anyone who speaks fondly of "the good old days when Opera was just a fast browser" obviously haven't been using Opera for very long, and they are showing some incredible ignorance.
I'm the linked blogger for the entry on Making Opera Look Like A Browser Again, and I've been with Opera since v3. In retrospect, my claim that Opera is "going the Netscape way" was incorrect, especially since much of the bloat about which I complained was in Selector Panels, not in the overall installer size. (Still 3.4MB!) My complaint had nothing to do with ads so much as with the crufty layout of the new interface. While other Opera users may like having IRC, "Notes," and syndication in their sidebar, I was putting forward a way to get all that out of the user's face and putting the browser back at full front and center.
But what you say is quite true, and maybe I should have phrased my blog entry differently. Opera was never just a plain-vanilla browser, but for the time I've used it, I've used it primarily for its browsing capabilities, and nothing else. That's what I love about Opera: the browser, so in my use of Opera, let nothing get in the browser's way.
Also see SpaceflightNow's Live Status Report.
> I recommend you use one shot from the glock, just because it's funnier
Heh, nothing to do with speedrunning, but I remember once trying to kill Nihilanth by ladning in his brain and using the crowbar, just because I could. Worked, too.
Sometimes Barney starts playing Peekaboo on his own.
Sadly, still no answer to the unanswerable question: what state is Springfield in? Because Northern Kentucky sure doesn't have a coastline.
This is real plogging, and it's way better.
(Source permalink -- large archive page)
Just watched it pass by from the National Mall in DC. Unfortunately the clouds were obscuring Jupiter, but the station itself emerged from behind them and zoomed straight overhead. Very nice.
There are cases where an unattributed or can be used, such as when abstracting with child selectors, but yes, you're indeed correct in saying that <em> and other such semantic elements mean much more than generic tags.
:D
(I think we're talking in different languages, because as a designer I was thinking of red as an error color for admin purposes only, which would never make it onto the body of the public page itself.)
Current ISS position, updated every minute.
:)
Yesterday in the office: I had my iBook beside me, running Celestia. Try this: Current time, realtime, Select ISS, Go to ISS, Sync Orbit. Maneuver a bit around the station till you're where the Destiny module window is, then adjust the viewpoint so you get a nice horizon view. (Or just Track Sol.) Then just leave it running. Voila: anytime you feel like seeing what the ISS crew can see from Destiny, just look at Celestia.
(Interestingly enough, comparing the Celestia ISS view with the Station Location website, I found that Celestia's synchronization is a teeny bit off, but not by much. Nice work!)
That was the three-armed, three-legged Lt. Arex. He came up in the ST comics a lot, too, where he filled the Navigator position (since Chekov was Tactical chief).
Wiggled! Thank you, thank you, JPL, for making mission photos so available to everyone. This is exciting stuff.
If this were XML, we could define an or tag or even ; but this being X/HTML, we want to use id and class attributes to identify a line of text/code within given standards. The example given in parent, , usually means "error" or "important," so using class="error" or class="important" is far more meaningful to the coder than a deprecated tag, and can be made meaningful in any manner to the general audience with CSS.
>How useful is the meaningless element type in situations where CSS is not used (Lynx, Google, etc)?
- In Lynx, about as useful as the <font> tag, eh? But proper structure and hierarchical markup with headers, paragraphs, and properly identified <div> blocks will work wonders: making clear to searchbots what text is important, and giving disabled users an easily-navigable nonvisual UI. Then, the document can be easily (?) styled for prettiness in normal browsers, while still retaining an intelligible structure for other environments.
Even plain, unclassed <span> tags are useful when nested inside parent blocks, since these can be styled as descendant CSS selectors without suffering from acute classitis. Plus, <span> is standards-compliant, and <font> is deprecated.
Ah, but is far more semantic, and with a declaration of span.error{color: red;} , you can change any of the error spans to any color, font, or style you wish with just a line of text, instead of hunting through KBs and KBs of code to search/replace any tags you might have missed.
...the general expectation is that their email program will be a full PIM suite....
I have no such expectations; Thunderbird is my main email client precisely because it doesn't try to be a full PIM suite. I manage my own calendar, contacts, and To-Do lists by other means, and I don't want yet more do-everything-for-you bloatware when all I really need is plain old email functionality.
"...take the easy path: I brought you a suite of applications that all work together." - Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light
Hold The Button? Now they're in trouble.
Of course, we all know from the cool CG pictures what buckyballs/tubes look like as molecules, but what does the stuff look like to the naked eye, e.g. in a test tube? Is it a vapor, or does C60 form into a gray "buckygoo," or does it exist as a powder or solid? Anyone have pictures of that?
I love how you consider it a quandary for religion first before a breakthrough for science. It sure ain't a quandary for my religion.
It's a matter of probability; it's the the large, boring expanses of Earth that are more likely to get meteor strikes: e.g.: Pacific Ocean, Siberia, Canada...
;)
(Earth, after all, is "mostly harmless."
Shamelessy reposted with some edits from Metafilter... ....But what is that glint to the left side?
I thought at first it was just a digital photo artifact, but seeing as how the flash of white appears in several photos from Spirit's navcam on Sol66, my next thought was ALIEN BUILDINGS!!!
Okay, not really. My next thought was that it might be the lander's backshell or heatshield. So I looked up a map of the rover's intended route, and orbital images of the landing site with labels. Take a look at the photos, the maps, and the scales. Apparently the lander's heatshield had impacted a nearby crater; that's Bonneville.
Inspired by danielroot's and kokogiak's Martian stereo wiggles I've made a few Mars Wiggles of my own. No funny colored glasses required.