My ISP here in France already offers that. I have a port of VLC able to view the TV-over-DSL channels streams on any computer of the house, record, transcode on the fly and so on.
What does your boss think about desktop linux, UI inconsistencies, geeky interfaces?
Not my boss. My customer. And they agree with me but are not responsible for the fact that there's not a single beginner out there able to find how to drow a rectangle in the Gimp (select a region, select a pencil, stroke). And Linspire supports many OSS initiatives for the benefit of Desktop Linux.
I spent a lot of time attempting to make some basic changes to mozilla, but I was never able to get it to compile properly
Then you did not read correctly the "Win32 Build" page:-)
Installing the build environment is a (very little) bit harder on Windows than on Linux, but I must say that debugging Mozilla from Windows and MS Visual Studio is considerably easier than doing it from Linux and gdb (or others). Of course, even Visual Studio is far away from MacOS 9/CodeWarrior, but still, it's a really workable environment...
You can't expect the members of the FOSS community to endorse that.
And who the hell are you to speak in the name of the whole community?!?
The article's author asks an intelligent question, you reply with stoopid fanatism. In the case of Nvu (I am the lead developer), the availability of Nvu on Windows was the right thing to do, it brought success. There are far more Nvu/Windows users than Nvu/Linux users.
Desktop Linux is still a dream for the time being, and UI inconsistencies, geeky interfaces, plus lack of common peripheral drivers (although the situation considerably improved compared to 2000) are still a plague in the Linux world.
There's a line there that says something very close to "You are not bound by this, since you did not sign it. However, nothing else gives you the right to distribute this code."
And of course, that line is available in all source packages in all the languages of the world...
I remind you that english is not an official language everywhere. Hence a legal null-value of an english-speaking GPL in countries where english is not official.
Furthermore, as gnu.org says it, "The reason the FSF does not approve these translations as officially valid is that checking them would be difficult and expensive". So translations of the GPL are not official. Goes direct to/dev/null, from a legal point of view.
...prompting the W3C to go to bat for the software giant
Not really... The W3C and TBL went in because EOLAS claims were a threat for the whole World Wide Web. And an closer look at the legal process day per day will show you TBL's public address was far from the kind of present Microsoft was waiting for at that time. Even it TBL expressed opinions that were against EOLAS, and then in favor of Microsoft, it came at a very bad time from a legal perspective...
And I bet the slashdotting you are receiving is really helping, huh?
I hope you find some pleasure attacking people without knowing them. Just ask other Mozillians, or my former Netscape colleagues : when I say the _only_ reason is time, the _only_ reason is time. The decision to make the source available with 0.1 was taken long before this/. post and your so friendly answer.
Hi there; I am Daniel Glazman, the lead engineer on Nvu project. The only reason why the source is not here _today_ is because we are totally overloaded. We got, in the last weeks, a so increasing number of requests for a preview version that we wanted/needed FIRST OF ALL to address that request. Hey, if we release nothing,/.ers say it's a fake project and when we release something, I read complaints;-)
More seriously, we're only humans and we gave higher priority to the test package, just because much more people care about that... We hope to be able to release the source by the end of this week.
More info about the missing Windows dlls or linux libs is available from my blog. Thanks.
> If you don't know how to do these things, you hire someone who does.
This assertion is just ridiculous.
Tell that to Mr Smith who just wants to set up a page with directions to his house, pictures of his gran'children and a few links to things he likes.
And Mr Smith wants that page(s) to be sexy a bit, because it's his right to ask for that.
Tell that to a secretary when her/his boss has asked her to put online some information about the next corporate meeting.
Read me well : the problem is not users' side who are so stupid they can't make a site like the 8 years old other's nephew, the problem is on OUR SIDE, software engineers stupid enough we are unable to make a good web editing environment for normal people.
Wrt an HTML editing product,/.ers are just aliens.
Sorry to say, but this is big news to me ; and I am listed in the authors of the HTML 4 spec...
You can always change de default charset of your doucment and type your document using that charset. Switch to iso-8859-1 (aka isoLatin-1) and you'll be able to save your docs as your type them without having to use entities for diacritics.
Yes. In case you did not hear about it, which I doubt, Netscape has been _a little bit_ under pressure between july 2002 and now... It's only a question of priorities, like everywhere in the industry. Filing a bug does not mean the resources for fixing the bug automagically appear next door, right ?
Colouring the source is easy. Keeping the colours
correct while the source is edited is MUCHO harder.
This is one of the things I plan to work on in a close future.
Daniel, Composer module owner
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My ISP here in France already offers that. I have a port of VLC able to view the TV-over-DSL channels streams on any computer of the house, record, transcode on the fly and so on.
http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2005/ 08/13/1165-meteor-impact
Then you did not read correctly the "Win32 Build" page :-)
Installing the build environment is a (very little) bit harder on Windows than on Linux, but I must say that debugging Mozilla from Windows and MS Visual Studio is considerably easier than doing it from Linux and gdb (or others). Of course, even Visual Studio is far away from MacOS 9/CodeWarrior, but still, it's a really workable environment...
Daniel, Nvu lead developer
And who the hell are you to speak in the name of the whole community?!?
The article's author asks an intelligent question, you reply with stoopid fanatism. In the case of Nvu (I am the lead developer), the availability of Nvu on Windows was the right thing to do, it brought success. There are far more Nvu/Windows users than Nvu/Linux users.
Desktop Linux is still a dream for the time being, and UI inconsistencies, geeky interfaces, plus lack of common peripheral drivers (although the situation considerably improved compared to 2000) are still a plague in the Linux world.
VCs should do VC work and let engineers and inventors do their job.
Nothing new here. All in all, I was interviewed/tested by 17 people before I joined Netscape.
Nice troll, indeed :-)
This is excellent news for Nvu, the Wysiwyg HTML editor,since it's v0.70 will be based on Firefox 1.0. Porting it should be reasonably easy now :-)
Daniel, Nvu engineering lead
...in Paris, France, in the asian corner rue Montgallet (paris 12).
Not really... The W3C and TBL went in because EOLAS claims were a threat for the whole World Wide Web. And an closer look at the legal process day per day will show you TBL's public address was far from the kind of present Microsoft was waiting for at that time. Even it TBL expressed opinions that were against EOLAS, and then in favor of Microsoft, it came at a very bad time from a legal perspective...
The title says it all. MPL/GPL/LGPL as promised. Get it there.
And I bet the slashdotting you are receiving is really helping, huh?
I hope you find some pleasure attacking people without knowing them. Just ask other Mozillians, or my former Netscape colleagues : when I say the _only_ reason is time, the _only_ reason is time. The decision to make the source available with 0.1 was taken long before this /. post and your so friendly answer.
Hi there; I am Daniel Glazman, the lead engineer on Nvu project. The only reason why the source is not here _today_ is because we are totally overloaded. We got, in the last weeks, a so increasing number of requests for a preview version that we wanted/needed FIRST OF ALL to address that request. Hey, if we release nothing, /.ers say it's a fake project and when we release something, I read complaints ;-)
More seriously, we're only humans and we gave higher priority to the test package, just because much more people care about that... We hope to be able to release the source by the end of this week.
More info about the missing Windows dlls or linux libs is available from my blog. Thanks.
> In Portuguese (ranking #7 of the most spoken language), caca is a synonym for feces. Not a very fortunate name for a library I would say.
I bet the name was chosen 100% on purpose; it means the same in French.
And the only acronym those imbeciles could find is CSS, standing for Cascading Style Sheets in our world ? Bah.
I joined the CSS Working Group at the beginning of 1997, and am the author of the quite popular CSS editor add-on for Composer called CaScadeS...
So, trust me, CSS is not forgotten.
Daniel Glazman
Show you're a web author who cares about his visitors/readers : why do you think those empty paragraphs are here ?
> If you don't know how to do these things, you hire someone who does.
This assertion is just ridiculous.
Tell that to Mr Smith who just wants to set up a page with directions to his house, pictures of his gran'children and a few links to things he likes. And Mr Smith wants that page(s) to be sexy a bit, because it's his right to ask for that.
Tell that to a secretary when her/his boss has asked her to put online some information about the next corporate meeting.
Read me well : the problem is not users' side who are so stupid they can't make a site like the 8 years old other's nephew, the problem is on OUR SIDE, software engineers stupid enough we are unable to make a good web editing environment for normal people.
Wrt an HTML editing product, /.ers are just aliens.
Sorry to say, but this is big news to me ; and I am listed in the authors of the HTML 4 spec...
You can always change de default charset of your doucment and type your document using that charset. Switch to iso-8859-1 (aka isoLatin-1) and you'll be able to save your docs as your type them without having to use entities for diacritics.
You should take a closer look at the toolbar on screenshot available at http://nvu.com/screenshots.html
Daniel Glazman
This is once again a joke I presume ? When you are editing a paragraph, two hits on the CR key create another paragraph.
Yes. In case you did not hear about it, which I doubt, Netscape has been _a little bit_ under pressure between july 2002 and now... It's only a question of priorities, like everywhere in the industry. Filing a bug does not mean the resources for fixing the bug automagically appear next door, right ?
Colouring the source is easy. Keeping the colours correct while the source is edited is MUCHO harder. This is one of the things I plan to work on in a close future. Daniel, Composer module owner