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  1. Re:My favourite bug... on Mozilla Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available · · Score: 1

    There's more in only-gecko-doesn't-support-that -basic-thing-for-years-now category: meet lack of soft hyphen support [9101].

  2. Re:Please don't ruin tabbed browsing... on Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Alpha Peeking Out (Or Not) · · Score: 1

    If your hands are well trained, you can use mouse gestures.

  3. Dream job on DoJ Following Porn Blocker Advances? · · Score: 1

    Being paid to surf pr0n at work... oh, wait.

  4. Re:ACID 2.0 Test on Internet Explorer Not Dead Yet · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Acid2 does not guarantee conformance with any specification"

    But conformance with W3C specifications guarantees passing Acid2 test.

    Acid2 is not the ultimate goal, but it's a pretty and easy to understand by non-techies indicator of progress in HTML/CSS support.

  5. Re:Interesting ... on French Parliament Fights iPod and iTunes · · Score: 1

    and iTunes won't sell anything other than locked Apple formats. Who's fault is that?

  6. 3d iMarks on Build a Quiet Gaming System · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How many 3D Marks Intel iMac gets (or will get when someone hacks drivers)? It's super silent and cheaper than that...

  7. Security is *advanced*!? on Recommended Reading List for PHP · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If security is threated as advanced topic in PHP, no wonder this language has such lousy reputation.

  8. It doesn't work for HTML on Opera 9.0 Fully Passes ACID2 Test · · Score: 2, Insightful
    1. Explorer is happy to render all crap thrown at it.
    2. Webmasters write crap, because it's compatible with crap-rendering browser.
    3. Other vendors not only have to implement HTML/CSS/JS, but also all bugs and quirks of Explorer's error (mis)handling to have crap-compiliant browser.
    4. No profit.
  9. Re:Coloured URLs and URLs displayed always on Firefox 2 To Have Anti-Phishing Technology · · Score: 2, Informative

    Opera solves it by displaying "You're about to go to address containing username" and displays which one is username and which is server name.

  10. Kernel Fuck Count on LAMP Lights the OSS Security Way · · Score: 1

    Maybe they've measured in a specific way?

  11. Re:Simple solution: on ODF Alliance, Who, What, Where (and Why?) · · Score: 1

    and ASCII art.

  12. Re:Note About Opera on Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners · · Score: 1

    Yup, latest technology previews with thumbs, widgets, site prefs, etc. seem like Opera had their own internal extensions contest.

  13. Re:RFC 2557 - MHTML on Unipage - A PDF Alternative? · · Score: 1

    Support? As usual - by every current browser except IE. IE6 sp2 dropped support for XBM (which was poor man's canvas in IE).

  14. Re:RFC 2557 - MHTML on Unipage - A PDF Alternative? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or you can use HTML and embed everything using data: URLs - RFC 2397

  15. "REXX" with hooks on modern OS on Keeping the OS/2 Flame Alive · · Score: 1

    On OS X AppleScript works much like REXX and lots of apps have hooks for it.

  16. Re:IE 7's Rendering Abilities seem worse on Microsoft IE 7 Goes (More) Beta · · Score: 3, Informative

    IE7 isn't compatible with IE6 bugs and hacks anymore, but it's still far behind other browsers in standards compiliance. That's going to be a real plain for web developers - both IE and non-IE code breaks in IE7.

  17. Re:XHTML 2.0 is the future, and will always be on The Future is XHTML 2.0 · · Score: 1

    It's pain in the ass to generate proper heading levels using XSLT. It's also hard to get certain section using DOM. Authors usually confuse heading numbers with importance instead of pseudo-nesting level, so IMHO <section>+<h> seems to be quite good solution to these problems, especially that many authors already use <div>+<hx>

  18. Memory protection'n'stuff? on Rootkits Head for Your BIOS · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't operating system be able to block BIOS updates?

  19. Re:AvantGo? on Opera Mini Mobile Browser Officially Released · · Score: 1

    It's very different. It's not yet another "we gzip HTML" service. In this setup entire pages are actually rendered on server (including Javascript, CSS) and reformatted using Opera's Small Screen Rendering (try it out: Shift+f11 in desktop Opera). Phone just receives visible result using special thin protocol (so it's more like optimized VNC client than a browser).

  20. Nothing. on Opera Mini Mobile Browser Officially Released · · Score: 1

    "We believe in respect for our users". "We believe in privacy" - http://www.opera.com/company/vision/

    I can believe that their statement is true. They say they support open standards and they do (Opera helps W3C and WHATWG), they say they dislike patents and they haven't patented anything they've invented. Opera seems to be quite honest company.

  21. Re:Development on Other Uses for Wiki Software? · · Score: 1

    From my experience Wiki syntax generally works well for webistes' CMS. Unlike JS-based WYSIWYG editors Wiki makes users think about text structure rather than just pretty colors and pictures.

  22. Re:About the Patch on KDE Heap Overflow Vulnerability Found · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey! But I have Konqueror compiled for OS X. Now I'll have to recompile everything using my half-speed single-core G5 :(

  23. Here's what I do on When Should You Stop Support for Software? · · Score: 3, Interesting


    You don't have to drop support for any browser. HTML is backwards compatible and you can even write "AJAX" stuff that degrades nicely.

    1. Code website that works with no JS and no CSS support. It doesn't have to be pretty (no <font>, just semantic HTML) nor work smootly (just use regular forms).
    2. Add styling designed for modern browsers like Firefox, Opera, Safari and hide these stylesheets from junk like Netscape 4 (@import trick).
    3. Add CSS hacks for IE (use HTML conditional comments, because IE7 breaks most hacks)
    4. Modify document using JS and DOM to add handlers for all dynamic, ajaxy flashy stuff. That's progressive enhancement.

  24. ASS, indeed on Apple Breaks RSS with Photocasting · · Score: 1

    After reading detailed description of the problem I agree that ASS is best way to describe it.

    To sum up, the "photocasting" feature centers around a single undocumented extension element in a namespace that doesn't need to be declared. iPhoto 6 doesn't understand the first thing about HTTP, the first thing about XML, or the first thing about RSS. It ignores features of HTTP that Netscape 4 supported in 1996, and mis-implements features of XML that Microsoft got right in 1997. It ignores 95% of RSS and Atom and gets most of the remaining 5% wrong.

  25. Re:RSS 3.0 on Apple Breaks RSS with Photocasting · · Score: 1

    No, they should switch to ATOM 1.0 and don't mess it up. ATOM seems to be more suitable for Photocasting anyway.