Never. It was the initial plan to rename it to Mozilla Browser, but now they have settled on Mozilla Firefox as the permanent name (it no longer remains simply the codename).
Hmm, was it really irresponsible? If they did not go ahead with a new release, the bug would still be around in FC1. But they did go ahead with it, and it's still around in FC2. Whether they made a new release or not, the bug is there, but by releasing FC2, there's fewer other bugs. I don't see how it's irresponsible to go ahead with a release, but I can see how it's irresponsible to not have it fixed yet.
I was reading a post made on a forum I frequent in which a member claimed that, during a chat with the group project manager for IE, it was said that the IE team is working on getting IE up to web standards and PNG transparency.
By the way, on the topic of Internet Explorer standards, I was having a chat with, Tony Chor, the group project manager for the Windows Internet Explorer team. He told me: with GDI it was difficult to properly implement alpha transparency years ago, the IE team was split up after IE6 was released and the new IE team is working on getting IE up to par with standards. I didn't ask what version standards support would be improved in as I was jumping for joy over that. My guess is Longhorn. -Shining Arcanine
No, MNG support is still gone. Who really knows why. They say its to make it smaller and faster . . . It's not worth the cut. Hey, let's cut out HTML support - that'll make it faster too!:(
In general I'd have to agree, but in this case seeing as Salon was simply trying to get money by having one of their own staffers(?) submit the article here, I think it would be well deserved.;)
This being the open source loving community it is, I'm pretty surprised to see diappointment at people doing work for a piece of software that the actual developers themselves did not or could not do. This is very often the way things are done in the open source world. Sure, this browser is not open source by any means, but still...
I got my parents, particularly my dad, Firefox. My dad was always plauged with spyware and such things when he browsed with Internet Exploiter. Now he uses Firefox which doesn't allow all of that crap to automatically install itself. Also because he's using Firefox, system updates aren't always as urgent as they would be if he actually used IE.
Microsoft however, with it's deep pockets, would be able to fairly easily maneuver around this regulation with little-to-no hassle, paying people to overlook it or otherwise passing laws to alleviate the weight of the law on companies such as themselves.
Nor do I. The use of contractions in a formal letter or essay is generally really looked down upon. Words like "haven't" are commonplace in there.
They also "shout", using words in all caps like "Furthermore, some of the images released WERE photographs. You ASSUMED they were only 3D prototypes and not photographs". Also in a legal letter you should not go asking questions, such as "Who was this 'volunteer'?"
It also threatens that he did not tell enough of the story. Who cares? That is not up to them to decide how much of the story they tell.
But by this point their goal isn't necessarily to win, or at least I wouldn't think. They know that they're going down, and they want to go down tearing Linux off its high perch along with them. Sueing a Fortune 1000 company is a good way to make a high profile case against Linux very popular, thus spreading further FUD everywhere.
Why doesn't Slashdot link to Google cached versions of pages instead of slamming webmasters using little Earthlink accounts with ~10 MB of bandwidth? Oh well. There's the google version.
Windows users can use K-Meleon which is very stripped down, but Windows only. Hellishly fast.
XUL is getting faster with each progressive release. A few days ago there were some string changes made in Fx that made everything 3% faster, and we'll be seeing more such string changes in the near future, so Fx 0.9 should be much faster.
I can't believe one of my posts in this "thread"-type thing was modded as -1, Troll. Clearly done by a FirebirdSQL fan, because it was anything but a troll.
There's far more to a browser than it's rendering engine. Mozilla had all of its extras, an email client, composer, address book, etc. built right into the same app, which slowed down response time of the program especially at startup. Fx has been stripped of all of that bloat.
To each his own. Firefox is definitely faster than the Mozilla Suite, aka Seamonkey. You haven't really used it have you? Firefox not useful and extensible? Are you kidding? With XUL and its extension engine it is incredibly extensible. Note that in my comments about FirebirdSQL, I only mentioned the company. I haven't used the database and so I will acknowledge that it may very well be a great database, whereas it would appear that you clearly have not used Fx if you honestly think it's not extensible. And if it is the case that you haven't used it, you can hardly call it a poor excuse for a software package.
This is obviously going to get modded down as flamebait or trolling, as is always the case on Slashdot when a good debateable topic comes up.
It may very well be, but I wouldn't use a database backed by people who are so immature and whiny as that, and who went through the whole naming fiasco entirely to gain publicity. Even if the product is good, having a company like that backing it is a very valid reason to not use their products. There is a certain level of professionalism and respect a company must maintain if they want people to use their products.
Flamebait? Maybe. I don't think there's enough support of the FirebirdSQL system here to really be a successful bait of any flame. Though of course what I said is very true, regardless of whether or not it's negative towards the FirebirdSQL people. They gained incredible publicity through this. It's doubtful that this news post would be here today had it not been for the naming conflict, because no one would even care.
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Never. It was the initial plan to rename it to Mozilla Browser, but now they have settled on Mozilla Firefox as the permanent name (it no longer remains simply the codename).
Hmm, was it really irresponsible? If they did not go ahead with a new release, the bug would still be around in FC1. But they did go ahead with it, and it's still around in FC2. Whether they made a new release or not, the bug is there, but by releasing FC2, there's fewer other bugs. I don't see how it's irresponsible to go ahead with a release, but I can see how it's irresponsible to not have it fixed yet.
It depends on how you look at it. There really is no up and down out there.
Why would you want it? The easiest way to go about this would be to install Firefox with an IE theme and add a little blue "e" icon for it.
No, MNG support is still gone. Who really knows why. They say its to make it smaller and faster . . . It's not worth the cut. Hey, let's cut out HTML support - that'll make it faster too! :(
In general I'd have to agree, but in this case seeing as Salon was simply trying to get money by having one of their own staffers(?) submit the article here, I think it would be well deserved. ;)
This being the open source loving community it is, I'm pretty surprised to see diappointment at people doing work for a piece of software that the actual developers themselves did not or could not do. This is very often the way things are done in the open source world. Sure, this browser is not open source by any means, but still...
I got my parents, particularly my dad, Firefox. My dad was always plauged with spyware and such things when he browsed with Internet Exploiter. Now he uses Firefox which doesn't allow all of that crap to automatically install itself. Also because he's using Firefox, system updates aren't always as urgent as they would be if he actually used IE.
Microsoft however, with it's deep pockets, would be able to fairly easily maneuver around this regulation with little-to-no hassle, paying people to overlook it or otherwise passing laws to alleviate the weight of the law on companies such as themselves.
Don't forget, however, that Microsoft jumped on board with the whole fashionable X in the name thing, with Windows XP.
Nor do I.
The use of contractions in a formal letter or essay is generally really looked down upon. Words like "haven't" are commonplace in there.
They also "shout", using words in all caps like "Furthermore, some of the images released WERE photographs. You ASSUMED they were only 3D prototypes and not photographs". Also in a legal letter you should not go asking questions, such as "Who was this 'volunteer'?"
It also threatens that he did not tell enough of the story. Who cares? That is not up to them to decide how much of the story they tell.
That was awful and so incredibly unprofessional.
What do you mean? This is an awesome way for them to really make people want to buy their licenses. Fucked? Pfft, this was an awesome business move.
But by this point their goal isn't necessarily to win, or at least I wouldn't think. They know that they're going down, and they want to go down tearing Linux off its high perch along with them. Sueing a Fortune 1000 company is a good way to make a high profile case against Linux very popular, thus spreading further FUD everywhere.
Why doesn't Slashdot link to Google cached versions of pages instead of slamming webmasters using little Earthlink accounts with ~10 MB of bandwidth? Oh well. There's the google version.
The most popular "legal" music download service is now taking heat for illegal use of music.
Windows users can use K-Meleon which is very stripped down, but Windows only. Hellishly fast.
XUL is getting faster with each progressive release. A few days ago there were some string changes made in Fx that made everything 3% faster, and we'll be seeing more such string changes in the near future, so Fx 0.9 should be much faster.
I can't believe one of my posts in this "thread"-type thing was modded as -1, Troll. Clearly done by a FirebirdSQL fan, because it was anything but a troll.
There's far more to a browser than it's rendering engine. Mozilla had all of its extras, an email client, composer, address book, etc. built right into the same app, which slowed down response time of the program especially at startup. Fx has been stripped of all of that bloat.
To each his own. Firefox is definitely faster than the Mozilla Suite, aka Seamonkey. You haven't really used it have you? Firefox not useful and extensible? Are you kidding? With XUL and its extension engine it is incredibly extensible.
Note that in my comments about FirebirdSQL, I only mentioned the company. I haven't used the database and so I will acknowledge that it may very well be a great database, whereas it would appear that you clearly have not used Fx if you honestly think it's not extensible. And if it is the case that you haven't used it, you can hardly call it a poor excuse for a software package.
This is obviously going to get modded down as flamebait or trolling, as is always the case on Slashdot when a good debateable topic comes up.
It may very well be, but I wouldn't use a database backed by people who are so immature and whiny as that, and who went through the whole naming fiasco entirely to gain publicity. Even if the product is good, having a company like that backing it is a very valid reason to not use their products. There is a certain level of professionalism and respect a company must maintain if they want people to use their products.
Flamebait? Maybe. I don't think there's enough support of the FirebirdSQL system here to really be a successful bait of any flame. Though of course what I said is very true, regardless of whether or not it's negative towards the FirebirdSQL people. They gained incredible publicity through this. It's doubtful that this news post would be here today had it not been for the naming conflict, because no one would even care.
Most versions of the browser render CSS properly. O_o
I don't think there's enough support for it elsewhere, such as in PHP, for it to be all that useful.
The only reason anyone even knows about them anyway is because of the former Mozilla Firebird. :O