It is meaningless to comment by saying "hey I use firefox", because the rest of the world is not using it. Now still 25% of my visitors are using IE 5.5, given that IE 6.0 is there 4 years ago.
Yes, it is much easier to make Mozilla/Opera more IE-complaint. [See IE Emu]
It is also quite easy to design a new set of API such that they are deligated to the correct version supported by the browser in runtime. [See DHTMLLib] [See CBE]
But these are just the wrong way.
It gives excuses for IE people to think that they are right. It works well for all sites. (but of course we can't afford IE not supported (tm)
It makes our code bad. We are not coding for the standard, but for the bad browsers. It created the economics that bad browsers will
never be gone.
A patch to IE means:
We are coding for the standard. Sooner or later when there is no more IE, just remove the line and our code works pretty well.
IE works by emulation. This means it will definately be made slower. When there are enough such sites, it gives people one more sites to move away from IE. That is, IE works, but not as good.
IE is considered second class. We focus on standard, and IE just work, by mistake. This is important when IE-to-Mozilla has become 50%-50%. It gives people more comfort to use Mozilla because it has the "brand" to work better.
Be prepared that IE can stop working at any time. When IE-to-Mozilla has become 30%-70%, we can start withdrawing this script, forcing extinction of IE.
It is exactly something like Cygwin, which implies UNIX-style programs are correct programs. When you move to Linux is just your choice.
The plain text mode feature of Outlook Express provides users with the option to render incoming mail messages in plain text instead of HTML. When Outlook Express is running in plain text mode, the rich edit control is used instead of the MSHTML control. You avoid some security issues that result from the use of MSHTML by using the rich edit control."
Coding is very objective. The computer (not human) tells you whether your code is right or wrong. This is science - you can only be right or wrong, not a mixture of both.
If you want to study about human related things, then you need to study business, not science. There are a lot of information systems programmes out there for you to choose. They never require you to be proficient in coding.
Then we see quite some exploits of Apache. ASF also had its time not understanding how not to enable by default features most people never use. Of course privilege separation saved apache so that its exploits are usually not disastrous.
I won't say popularity is a major factor but given bad code, no popularity nearly means no harm. Think of the time Sendmail and Windows are invented, how cares security?
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/communications/0,390 01141,39103280,00.htm
We have been having it for a year already, and we sae the penetration. Would the rest of the world repeat? Maybe it is only economically viable for countries that large. But just wonder, why didn't we trial at outlying islands instead of the middle of the city?
But here in Hong Kong we have been using it for some time. Just no one cares to use the cheaper but slower connection while everyone is having 6+ Mbps via DSL/Ethernet.
But don't forget they are biggest security problems partly because they are famous. If Linux is as famous as Windows, the few root exploits found these days would attract lots of trojans/worms as well.
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I would say postfix, Mr Project, evolution and GNOME. I can't imagine when they can be ported to Windows.
This is the bad with closed-source, free-of-charge or not.
It is meaningless to comment by saying "hey I use firefox", because the rest of the world is not using it. Now still 25% of my visitors are using IE 5.5, given that IE 6.0 is there 4 years ago.
Yes, it is much easier to make Mozilla/Opera more IE-complaint. [See IE Emu]
It is also quite easy to design a new set of API such that they are deligated to the correct version supported by the browser in runtime. [See DHTMLLib] [See CBE]
But these are just the wrong way.
A patch to IE means:
It is exactly something like Cygwin, which implies UNIX-style programs are correct programs. When you move to Linux is just your choice.
Because you never went to rural areas, like HKUST.
What a pity then. But can something open source be very difficult to port, given that they don't intend to do so?
Doesn't FreeBSD have Linux emulation? We emulated before now we see the fruits. Can you?
Coding is very objective. The computer (not human) tells you whether your code is right or wrong. This is science - you can only be right or wrong, not a mixture of both.
If you want to study about human related things, then you need to study business, not science. There are a lot of information systems programmes out there for you to choose. They never require you to be proficient in coding.
Then we see quite some exploits of Apache. ASF also had its time not understanding how not to enable by default features most people never use. Of course privilege separation saved apache so that its exploits are usually not disastrous.
I won't say popularity is a major factor but given bad code, no popularity nearly means no harm. Think of the time Sendmail and Windows are invented, how cares security?
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/communications/0,390 01141,39103280,00.htm
We have been having it for a year already, and we sae the penetration. Would the rest of the world repeat? Maybe it is only economically viable for countries that large. But just wonder, why didn't we trial at outlying islands instead of the middle of the city?
There is power != broadband works
But here in Hong Kong we have been using it for some time. Just no one cares to use the cheaper but slower connection while everyone is having 6+ Mbps via DSL/Ethernet.
But don't forget they are biggest security problems partly because they are famous. If Linux is as famous as Windows, the few root exploits found these days would attract lots of trojans/worms as well.
Customer data shan't be too difficult to retrieve, shall they?
Why? WebDAV also supports multiple repositories well.
Laptop keybords and mouse are silent anyway. At least our IBM is.