WMP technically looks very good - same algorithm can do losless and lossy compression, does not use division (very important for tiny chips), supports any number of channels (including optional Alpha and CMYK), can store HDRI images and has little goodies like chunked container format and rotation flags.
If it was open and patent-free format I'd be drooling and starting war against JPEG already.
Why create new sub-web when it already starts becoming obsolete?
Look at mobile web browsers like Opera/Opera Mini - you can access most dotcoms from it today. Minimo is coming. Nokias WebKit is coming. Adobe/Macromedia is working on mobile version of Flash.
Soon after all registrars earn their money,.mobi will be useless (everyone will pay their mobi-tax and point domain to.com version with handheld stylesheets).
And OSes should come without memory protection, garbage collection and all that stuff that makes programmers lazy! They should work much much harder to create solid programs that don't crash! Ever!
To hell with Andrew Tanenbaum's world! We want to reboot machine everytime we encounter a bug!
I don't like being forced to watch copyright warnings, stupid "don't steal" commercials and having trouble with archiving movies, so I prefer watching 'stolen' copies, which don't have any added crap.
Working on Firefox and IE6 only isn't highly cross-platform (and that's the case with most of these apps). That's Medieval Internet ruled by NN+IE.
Google's apps turn out to be more challange than Acid2 test (Safari and Opera are constantly screwed by not-so-standard and not-so-valid "OMG AJAX" code).
I ran "Check for updates" in 1.5.0.1/win and it has chosen to download 6.1MB (even if.1->.3 is not available, FF could have downloaded incremental.2 version first...)
Not true. Opera is developed since 1995 (about the same time as IE). Mozilla is Netscape's project. So if there wasn't IE, we'd have... guess what, Firefox and Opera! Probably a lot more advanced websites using XHTML/CSS as well.
Most users/systems don't set their real monitor DPI, so all these "device independent" units are useless (and there's huge difference between defaults on MS Windows and X11).
Images are pixel-based and they don't scale well (most browsers have still same crap scaling algorithm since early '90).
CSS image backgrounds can't be scaled at all.
Support for SVG in current browsers is very limited
and that's the problem - even if I wanted scallable website, I can't reliably implement it using current technologies/browsers.
SVG solves scaling problem. Scaling up "pixel" will give backwards compatibility with websites designed for low DPI screens.
You can preview where it's going using OS X Tiger. In QuartzDebug you can find "hidden" setting that lets you change ratio between logical and physical pixel size (it's buggy, but I expect that next version will have that fully implemented).
That would suck. Apple has pretty good interface guidlines. "Preferences" is 3rd option in App menu. It's not Tools->Prefs, View->Options, File->Properties, View->Customize, Edit->Configuration, etc.
DarWINE is fine, but I don't want Windows app and their (un)usability officialy made "native" for OS X.
People don't install adblockers because they want to be evil bandwidth-suckers, they just don't want to be annoyed with all that flashing crap.
Content/ad providers should just figure out better, less intrusive ads.
I wonder how long Google would last if they had fullscreen flash instead of adwords (big flashy ads get more attention, so they work better, right?)
Again whole XMLHTTPRequest is an example of IEs poor standards support. There is DOM Level 3 Load and Save module developed since 2000. Pretty powerful. Doesn't work in IE.
This flaw doesn't really matter. Attackers don't need to spoof URL because users don't know what's the role of URL, how domains work and why https is important.
Recent phishing study (covered on/.) shows that people think IP is "redirection number", padlock is for blocking cookies and any website that looks polished and says it's genuine and secure, really is.
I know he's right, but if didn't know this before, after reading TFA I'd think he's been smoking something.
How suits in management are supposed to believe what he's saying and dump MS Office? Will anyone drop enterprise Java because it's evil as in Vi-Vi-Vi?
OS X is not perfect, but here's some free technical support: * You can share CD's by linking them (adding alias) somewhere in your home directory. * There is software to fight Finder's.DS_Store plague * You can drag'n'drop directories to Terminal * Hold Alt when selecting "Get Info" to see info for all files together. Try PathFinder. * Rotation works for me. Maybe it has to be software emulated for your gfx card? * How about creating your own applications folder with aliases? If you drag it to dock, you'll get almost Windows Start Menu. * Before dragging text in Cocoa you need to hold mouse button for 0.5 sec. This is 'configurable' via power toys/terminal. * Stuffit sucks. Download something else.
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WMP technically looks very good - same algorithm can do losless and lossy compression, does not use division (very important for tiny chips), supports any number of channels (including optional Alpha and CMYK), can store HDRI images and has little goodies like chunked container format and rotation flags.
If it was open and patent-free format I'd be drooling and starting war against JPEG already.
Why create new sub-web when it already starts becoming obsolete?
Look at mobile web browsers like Opera/Opera Mini - you can access most dotcoms from it today. Minimo is coming. Nokias WebKit is coming. Adobe/Macromedia is working on mobile version of Flash.
Soon after all registrars earn their money, .mobi will be useless (everyone will pay their mobi-tax and point domain to .com version with handheld stylesheets).
It's a matter of using proper tools that don't let you break the code.
If you chaotically spit code fragments, you're likely not only to create invalid code, but you also risk XSS attacks.
Use server-side XSLT or some error-checking template system and half of the problem goes away.
CSS defines strict error handling for forward compatibility. CSS3 will look like invalid markup to CSS1/2 browsers.
It's not pages that are bad, but implementation of garbage collector that can't handle circular references.
And OSes should come without memory protection, garbage collection and all that stuff that makes programmers lazy! They should work much much harder to create solid programs that don't crash! Ever!
To hell with Andrew Tanenbaum's world! We want to reboot machine everytime we encounter a bug!
This code is crap. Use of <a href="javascript:"> makes it same quality as <marquee><font color="#ggggg">OMG Web 2.0!</td></font>
Unlike TFA, here are some resources worth reading:
Saying that anti-virus is vital piece of protection on platform that hasn't yet seen any serious viruses IS spreading FUD.
I don't like being forced to watch copyright warnings, stupid "don't steal" commercials and having trouble with archiving movies, so I prefer watching 'stolen' copies, which don't have any added crap.
Working on Firefox and IE6 only isn't highly cross-platform (and that's the case with most of these apps). That's Medieval Internet ruled by NN+IE.
Google's apps turn out to be more challange than Acid2 test (Safari and Opera are constantly screwed by not-so-standard and not-so-valid "OMG AJAX" code).
I ran "Check for updates" in 1.5.0.1/win and it has chosen to download 6.1MB (even if .1->.3 is not available, FF could have downloaded incremental .2 version first...)
Not true. Opera is developed since 1995 (about the same time as IE). Mozilla is Netscape's project. So if there wasn't IE, we'd have... guess what, Firefox and Opera! Probably a lot more advanced websites using XHTML/CSS as well.
Unfortunately it's not that easy.
and that's the problem - even if I wanted scallable website, I can't reliably implement it using current technologies/browsers.
SVG solves scaling problem. Scaling up "pixel" will give backwards compatibility with websites designed for low DPI screens.
You can preview where it's going using OS X Tiger. In QuartzDebug you can find "hidden" setting that lets you change ratio between logical and physical pixel size (it's buggy, but I expect that next version will have that fully implemented).
Yup. In 1995 we've had bunch of stupid ideas like "selling dog food on the web!". Now we have "selling dog food, on the web, with AJAX!".
That would suck. Apple has pretty good interface guidlines. "Preferences" is 3rd option in App menu. It's not Tools->Prefs, View->Options, File->Properties, View->Customize, Edit->Configuration, etc.
DarWINE is fine, but I don't want Windows app and their (un)usability officialy made "native" for OS X.
People don't install adblockers because they want to be evil bandwidth-suckers, they just don't want to be annoyed with all that flashing crap.
Content/ad providers should just figure out better, less intrusive ads. I wonder how long Google would last if they had fullscreen flash instead of adwords (big flashy ads get more attention, so they work better, right?)
Is there a free, small and easy to install plug-in that provides ODF import in popular versions of MS Office?
I can't just send ODF files to people with attached note "Download 50MB of OpenOffice or switch to Linux and KOffice".
Again whole XMLHTTPRequest is an example of IEs poor standards support. There is DOM Level 3 Load and Save module developed since 2000. Pretty powerful. Doesn't work in IE.
This flaw doesn't really matter. Attackers don't need to spoof URL because users don't know what's the role of URL, how domains work and why https is important.
Recent phishing study (covered on /.) shows that people think IP is "redirection number", padlock is for blocking cookies and any website that looks polished and says it's genuine and secure, really is.
(IE sucks anyway)
These are old security problems in new cooler, faster, better package.
AJAX seems to be hidden and because of that is as deceptive to n00bs as <input type=hidden> is.
Security by obscurity is no security at all.
Patented - no. Copyrighted - yes.
You probably don't realize how much skill and effort it takes to design perfectly proportional, legible font and hinting it for on-screen rendering.
Some guy who looks like a crossbreed of hippie and tibetan monk tells that Flash is taking our freedom because his software is lagging behind...
I know he's right, but if didn't know this before, after reading TFA I'd think he's been smoking something.
How suits in management are supposed to believe what he's saying and dump MS Office? Will anyone drop enterprise Java because it's evil as in Vi-Vi-Vi?
Ogg Vorbis support in iTunes and other QT-based apps. Unfortunately OGG is still second-class citizen in iTunes, but at least it plays.
Hey! That's your problem! Obviously you're not running Linux on your iPod.
OS X is not perfect, but here's some free technical support: .DS_Store plague
* You can share CD's by linking them (adding alias) somewhere in your home directory.
* There is software to fight Finder's
* You can drag'n'drop directories to Terminal
* Hold Alt when selecting "Get Info" to see info for all files together. Try PathFinder.
* Rotation works for me. Maybe it has to be software emulated for your gfx card?
* How about creating your own applications folder with aliases? If you drag it to dock, you'll get almost Windows Start Menu.
* Before dragging text in Cocoa you need to hold mouse button for 0.5 sec. This is 'configurable' via power toys/terminal.
* Stuffit sucks. Download something else.