Excellent. Plenty of truth in your post. It is understandable that big name sites must allow IE7, but a good step in the right direction is to have small time sites start doing this. People are willing to change browsers if their old one can't do the job anymore (I noticed no refusals to upgrade when our department said this about NS4.7). If the smaller sites start getting people to use something better, this will filter through to the big name sites.
Are there any "best viewed using a standards compliant browser" buttons out there?
I visit several forums everyday, and I open up many threads in succession... and I do so with SHIFT-CLICK, then ALT-TAB to go back to the thread listings, and repeat.
See, you've never really used Firefox's tabbed browsing to it's full potential. You can do the exact same procedure in Firefox, but all you have to do is press the middle mouse button. That is it. No need to use two hands (shift + click), and no need for the additional Alt+tab to get back to your forum listing. Just middle click all the links you want in succession, then close the tab to continue on.
I understand using the taskbar does have advantages over a tab bar (especially in your case), but it doesn't outweigh the other benefits like the simplicity of opening new tabs.
Also, "find as you type" is without a doubt the greatest feature present in Firefox and not in IE.
IE also has no form of adblocking. I get so sick of seeing those animated gifs and it feels great to never see them again.
You have never really experienced a true browser until you've taken advantage of those features.
The Danes can have Hans Island if they give us Greenland. It'll help satisfy our expansionistic tendancies and we'll make the Russians uneasy. Look out Alaska!
Little known fact, the Alaskan panhandle is American simply because the Brits felt giving it to the U.S. would help encourage them to join a war against the Kaiser. Course they balked on the deal and didn't show up until 3 years into it. America should give it back.
Except that your taskbar has much more than IE windows in it. Taskbar, quick launch, other apps etc. When all is running as usual, you can only fit two or three IE windows in your taskbar. Then you have no idea what you are clicking on. Then you start grouping them together which is an extra click and a headache.
Also, opening a fresh window instead of a tab is resource consuming.
You can't middle click on link in IE and expect the page to be ready when you come to it.
You can't pick up windows and rearrange them in the taskbar while you can do that with tabs (at least in many applications).
The taskbar just doesn't suit as a tab bar replacement. It just doesn't.
Except that Microsoft's target demographic (Blue e == Internet) still has no idea google maps exists or that Microsoft's virtualearth is inferior to it.
Tell me about it. I hope I graduate and get a real job before I have to ask someone to log in to WebCT Vista only to hear them respond with "I'm already logged in to Windows Vista. What do you mean my philosophy course should be in the list? What is java? Do you mean javascript? What's javascript?" *bang* *bang* *bang*
The whole WebCT vista system is pretty good, but it REQUIRES a perfectly configured system which NOBODY has.
Oh yeah, I wouldn't object to mozilla distributing versions which have the popular extensions (or popular combinations of extensions). Throwing together a configured adblock/greasemonkey/noscript version would be great for administrators. But Mozilla should never take away the entirely stripped down version they have now, nor should they remove it as the default
1 was my mistake. I thought it was meant to block flash but I'm thinking of a different extension. However, this is a bloated extension that isn't a necessity.
In the case of 2-4, they adjust the way a web page is meant to function so isn't worth a risk. Google may be fine with CustomizeGoogle, but if their site starts suggesting yahoo results and blocking Google AdSense by default, they won't be pleased. On a personal note, I'm glad this is through extension because then it isn't the majority. If AdBlock got very popular, web developers would find ways around it and it'd stop working.
This is antithetical to Firefox's mission. Give the user a capable browser that contains no bloat (ie. stuff some users don't want).
I looked at the 5 most popular extensions on mozilla's update site. The top 4 may be pretty popular but that's a bad idea since Mozilla would be guaranteed a lawsuit.
The fifth is ForecastFox and a lot of people (myself included) don't want it in there.
If the slashdot search was worth a damn, a simple search for similar terms would prevent dupes. Hell, one could automate that like bugzilla does. But we'd lose the chance to be the first to claim "dupe!"
I don't know if anyone else had the thought, but when I read the question I had visions of the film Independance day where they pull up the car next to the White house, he sets up an antenna and determines the exact point in the building his ex-wife is.
I'm no network security expert, but you could scan all machines for those with abnormal ports open. You could look for 80 or 8080. I think XP machines do not listen on port 113 while off the shelf wireless routers do. Then just cut off that user. Obviously it won't help you FIND the person, but the user might call in wondering why he/she can't connect anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
Excellent. Plenty of truth in your post. It is understandable that big name sites must allow IE7, but a good step in the right direction is to have small time sites start doing this. People are willing to change browsers if their old one can't do the job anymore (I noticed no refusals to upgrade when our department said this about NS4.7). If the smaller sites start getting people to use something better, this will filter through to the big name sites.
Are there any "best viewed using a standards compliant browser" buttons out there?
What is a typical working day for you?
I visit several forums everyday, and I open up many threads in succession... and I do so with SHIFT-CLICK, then ALT-TAB to go back to the thread listings, and repeat.
See, you've never really used Firefox's tabbed browsing to it's full potential. You can do the exact same procedure in Firefox, but all you have to do is press the middle mouse button. That is it. No need to use two hands (shift + click), and no need for the additional Alt+tab to get back to your forum listing. Just middle click all the links you want in succession, then close the tab to continue on.
I understand using the taskbar does have advantages over a tab bar (especially in your case), but it doesn't outweigh the other benefits like the simplicity of opening new tabs.
Also, "find as you type" is without a doubt the greatest feature present in Firefox and not in IE.
IE also has no form of adblocking. I get so sick of seeing those animated gifs and it feels great to never see them again.
You have never really experienced a true browser until you've taken advantage of those features.
The Danes can have Hans Island if they give us Greenland. It'll help satisfy our expansionistic tendancies and we'll make the Russians uneasy. Look out Alaska!
Little known fact, the Alaskan panhandle is American simply because the Brits felt giving it to the U.S. would help encourage them to join a war against the Kaiser. Course they balked on the deal and didn't show up until 3 years into it. America should give it back.
Except that your taskbar has much more than IE windows in it. Taskbar, quick launch, other apps etc. When all is running as usual, you can only fit two or three IE windows in your taskbar. Then you have no idea what you are clicking on. Then you start grouping them together which is an extra click and a headache.
Also, opening a fresh window instead of a tab is resource consuming.
You can't middle click on link in IE and expect the page to be ready when you come to it.
You can't pick up windows and rearrange them in the taskbar while you can do that with tabs (at least in many applications).
The taskbar just doesn't suit as a tab bar replacement. It just doesn't.
Yeah that's the one.
I just touched her hand, and her hand touched her boob. By the transitive property, I just scored!
Except that Microsoft's target demographic (Blue e == Internet) still has no idea google maps exists or that Microsoft's virtualearth is inferior to it.
Oh Man!
Turn the lights out and make sure this is the last thing you listen to before you go to bed!
Sweet Dreams!
Add a CSS tag to highlight .pdf links:
a[href$="pdf"]{
background-color: red;
}
Pretty much every browser has this kind of capability.
Oh, the horrors of the occursed name continue...
Tell me about it. I hope I graduate and get a real job before I have to ask someone to log in to WebCT Vista only to hear them respond with "I'm already logged in to Windows Vista. What do you mean my philosophy course should be in the list? What is java? Do you mean javascript? What's javascript?"
*bang* *bang* *bang*
The whole WebCT vista system is pretty good, but it REQUIRES a perfectly configured system which NOBODY has.
Oh yeah, I wouldn't object to mozilla distributing versions which have the popular extensions (or popular combinations of extensions). Throwing together a configured adblock/greasemonkey/noscript version would be great for administrators. But Mozilla should never take away the entirely stripped down version they have now, nor should they remove it as the default
1 was my mistake. I thought it was meant to block flash but I'm thinking of a different extension. However, this is a bloated extension that isn't a necessity.
In the case of 2-4, they adjust the way a web page is meant to function so isn't worth a risk. Google may be fine with CustomizeGoogle, but if their site starts suggesting yahoo results and blocking Google AdSense by default, they won't be pleased. On a personal note, I'm glad this is through extension because then it isn't the majority. If AdBlock got very popular, web developers would find ways around it and it'd stop working.
This is antithetical to Firefox's mission. Give the user a capable browser that contains no bloat (ie. stuff some users don't want).
I looked at the 5 most popular extensions on mozilla's update site. The top 4 may be pretty popular but that's a bad idea since Mozilla would be guaranteed a lawsuit.
The fifth is ForecastFox and a lot of people (myself included) don't want it in there.
Browse comments at plus 1 or plus 2.
I have seen Firefox users highlight the same features Opera had before Firefox, but I have never seen anyone claim Firefox developers invented them.
You are thinking of this page.
If the slashdot search was worth a damn, a simple search for similar terms would prevent dupes. Hell, one could automate that like bugzilla does. But we'd lose the chance to be the first to claim "dupe!"
Tell me about it. Slashdotted off it's motherfucker. Anyone with a mirror, or at least the list 1-5?
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/0 7/10/1924256&from=rss
I don't know if anyone else had the thought, but when I read the question I had visions of the film Independance day where they pull up the car next to the White house, he sets up an antenna and determines the exact point in the building his ex-wife is.
I'm no network security expert, but you could scan all machines for those with abnormal ports open. You could look for 80 or 8080. I think XP machines do not listen on port 113 while off the shelf wireless routers do. Then just cut off that user. Obviously it won't help you FIND the person, but the user might call in wondering why he/she can't connect anymore.
No amount of life loss is worth a loss of someones life?
There are some who would argue that but I don't think ANYONE in their right mind truly feel loss of money is worth the loss of someone's life.
I wish I could put a bounty on people who made me look stupid.
Yeah, I usually use NVU to build a base page, but then I used jed to fix up the code so it works and looks perfectly.
What's wrong with that?! I single handedly introduced the word "guesstimate" to the English language.
*ducks* *runs*
Replace DramaticMusic with old 8-Track tunes:
Bad Moon Rising