Maybe Motorola has sabotaged Apple Phone? Motorola has other, better products, so can let ROKR fail to show consumers that iPods should stay away from their phone market.
I hate noisy computers. I've spent a lot on making my PC quiet, but still it wouldn't let me sleep in same room with PC downloading overnight (no, not because of nightmares about RIAA/MPAA).
Mac Mini is really whisper quiet and not much more expensive than Wintel box with passive PSU, etc.
Opera in US has marginal share, so there is nothing to take. OTOH in Poland Opera has 6.5% market share and Firefox almost 16%. Since Firefox hype started Opera didn't lose market share and it usage still grows, although much slower (last year Opera had 4% while FF had 0.5%).
Imagine system that can spread malicious code world-wide. System that can bypass all firewalls, antivirus software and locked-down accounts. System that can install any code without much suspition. Imagine Windows Update.
Take a picture of white sheet of paper and a flashlight turned on. Decrease brightness by ten. With regular picture (brightness 0-255) paper will look as dim as flashlight. With HDRI (0-gazillion) actual brightness of flashlight will be preserved and look much brighter than white sheet of paper.
BTW: Quake1 had poor mans HDR - palette with few colors which weren't affected by lightmaps.
The entire.mobi thing is stupid. In few years it will be completely useless:
Decent mobile browsers can open most regular dotcom pages already[1]
Macromedia is working on portable Flash player
Mobile phones and browsers get more powerful every year
You can cheaply support mobile browsers today - just code more-or-less properly (nobody requires 100% valid XHTML). You can get prettier looks by writing stylesheet for handheld media. That's easy and done once.
OTOH.mobi suggests having separate website, with it's own design and tailored content. Hello? That doubles costs!
Does it offer something in return? Longer address? Unfamilar name? Moderation and restrictions? Yeah, certainly worth it...
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1) Opera Browser for Mobile devices (and soon Gecko-based Minimo and Nokia's KHTML browser) handles table tagsoup, scripts, CSS, AJAX - everything that desktop version does (sans plugins). In already handles more CSS than desktop Internet Explorer 7 is said to support in Vista.
IMHO Opera stats can be skewed in a different way.
It is plausible that some IE users have BCC homepage set as browser's start page and create large number of hits.
but other browsers have alternative mechanisms, that allow user to visit homepage even less often than usual. For example Opera on each start reopens previously open tabs, from cache, so rarely anyone uses start page feature. Opera and FF have RSS that leads users directly to articles, etc.
And now try to make this code secure, prevent header injection, add attachments, etc. You'll find that you're importing PEAR classes and doing it all Java way.
PHP is simple for simple things. It requires a lot of skill and attention in large projects.
C'mon, there is no Web 2.0. There are some new services and webmasters finally figured out how to do some things better, but that's evolution, not revolution.
And all of "Web 2.0" - which works in IE - was possible 4-5 years ago, when "Web 1.0" was around.
It's enough to make JS do more than just rollovers and people call it AJAX. I hate that. Not everything that has draggable pseudowindows is "AJAX application". DHTML used to be name for those, but it's not cool anymore... heh
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You get all useful functionality out of the box, all tightly integrated and working smoothly. No problems with incompatibilities, upgrades, etc.
Opera is pretty fast.
No extension system doesn't mean no extensibility. You can add functionality using UserJS, Opera's scriptable buttons, favelets, panels, user css and ini tweaks.
* There are some AdBlock-like Opera hacks (filter.ini, user.css/user.js) or you can use external software, like AdMuncher * You can customize searches, google Opera Search ini editor. * BugMeNot, Nuke Anything and alike are available as favelets, which you can drag as buttons on toolbar. * Greasemonkey is built-in, known as UserJS and Opera software maintains scripts that fix many lame websites (IEisms, NN4-era menus, etc). * Plain Text Links = doubleclick, choose "go to url".
Plus you may find some unique features that will keep you from using Firefox:)
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Don't.
Please stop that crap. AJAX is not responsible for drag'n'drop, dropdowns.
Maybe Motorola has sabotaged Apple Phone? Motorola has other, better products, so can let ROKR fail to show consumers that iPods should stay away from their phone market.
I hate noisy computers. I've spent a lot on making my PC quiet, but still it wouldn't let me sleep in same room with PC downloading overnight (no, not because of nightmares about RIAA/MPAA). Mac Mini is really whisper quiet and not much more expensive than Wintel box with passive PSU, etc.
Rrrriiight, XMLHTTPRequest is soo much faster than HTTP Request for HTML/XML document. AJAX is so cool that is superconductive.
Opera in US has marginal share, so there is nothing to take. OTOH in Poland Opera has 6.5% market share and Firefox almost 16%. Since Firefox hype started Opera didn't lose market share and it usage still grows, although much slower (last year Opera had 4% while FF had 0.5%).
Imagine system that can spread malicious code world-wide. System that can bypass all firewalls, antivirus software and locked-down accounts. System that can install any code without much suspition. Imagine Windows Update.
Apple managed to do it despite all moms.
Take a picture of white sheet of paper and a flashlight turned on. Decrease brightness by ten. With regular picture (brightness 0-255) paper will look as dim as flashlight. With HDRI (0-gazillion) actual brightness of flashlight will be preserved and look much brighter than white sheet of paper.
BTW: Quake1 had poor mans HDR - palette with few colors which weren't affected by lightmaps.
The entire .mobi thing is stupid. In few years it will be completely useless:
You can cheaply support mobile browsers today - just code more-or-less properly (nobody requires 100% valid XHTML). You can get prettier looks by writing stylesheet for handheld media. That's easy and done once.
OTOH .mobi suggests having separate website, with it's own design and tailored content. Hello? That doubles costs!
Does it offer something in return? Longer address? Unfamilar name? Moderation and restrictions? Yeah, certainly worth it...
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1) Opera Browser for Mobile devices (and soon Gecko-based Minimo and Nokia's KHTML browser) handles table tagsoup, scripts, CSS, AJAX - everything that desktop version does (sans plugins). In already handles more CSS than desktop Internet Explorer 7 is said to support in Vista.
It is plausible that some IE users have BCC homepage set as browser's start page and create large number of hits.
but other browsers have alternative mechanisms, that allow user to visit homepage even less often than usual. For example Opera on each start reopens previously open tabs, from cache, so rarely anyone uses start page feature. Opera and FF have RSS that leads users directly to articles, etc.
And now try to make this code secure, prevent header injection, add attachments, etc. You'll find that you're importing PEAR classes and doing it all Java way.
PHP is simple for simple things. It requires a lot of skill and attention in large projects.
And all of "Web 2.0" - which works in IE - was possible 4-5 years ago, when "Web 1.0" was around.
They need really, really advanced distribution system to mail copy of Google to everyone.
Yes, that's exactly where MS OS and apps should be improved!
Try emailing "Britney spears naked sex pictures.mpeg.app" to OS X users and see how much success you get.
Damn, I've bought "Rev 1" model. Now I have to buy another one!
It's enough to make JS do more than just rollovers and people call it AJAX. I hate that. Not everything that has draggable pseudowindows is "AJAX application". DHTML used to be name for those, but it's not cool anymore... heh
md5(master_password + website_domain);
Type "n stuff" in addressbar and you get google news. In search.ini you can add your own. Find Opera Search ini editor to do this for you.
Opera's internal buils are very close to passing Acid2.
Opera 9, AKA Merlin, is adding XSLT, designMode, more CSS3 stuff and "HTML5".
Compare it with Google cache while you can.
HTML alone is 10%-30% smaller.
Did you patch and compile your Firefox? Or did you just download binary like 80 millions other users?
Opera is Apple-style "it just works" solution.
You get all useful functionality out of the box, all tightly integrated and working smoothly. No problems with incompatibilities, upgrades, etc.
Opera is pretty fast.
No extension system doesn't mean no extensibility. You can add functionality using UserJS, Opera's scriptable buttons, favelets, panels, user css and ini tweaks.
* There are some AdBlock-like Opera hacks (filter.ini, user.css/user.js) or you can use external software, like AdMuncher
:)
* You can customize searches, google Opera Search ini editor.
* BugMeNot, Nuke Anything and alike are available as favelets, which you can drag as buttons on toolbar.
* Greasemonkey is built-in, known as UserJS and Opera software maintains scripts that fix many lame websites (IEisms, NN4-era menus, etc).
* Plain Text Links = doubleclick, choose "go to url".
Plus you may find some unique features that will keep you from using Firefox