From an outsiders perspective I'd say Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software ticks all of the boxes, e.g. "The Development Abstraction Layer". It's such a shame that they can't clone him on demand and ship him worldwide in 48 hours:(
With Opera 9 it's fairly simple to stop Google tracking you via cookies:
Browse to the Google domain you use most often
Bring up the context menu
Select 'Edit Site Preferences' then the 'Cookies' tab.
Displayed are the cookies Google currently has set for you at this domain. You have a number of choices at this point depending on your paranoia level, the most useful ones being:
Delete the cookies listed and tick 'Never accept cookies' (this only applies to this domain). You can still keep some of your Google search preferences (e.g. results per page, etc.) by bookmarking preference options in a Google querystring.
If you're only slightly paranoid then you may wish to have a bit of control over Google cookies without being overly inconvenienced. You see Opera lets you edit cookies - individual cookie names, values and expiry dates can be edited directly from within the GUI. Pick a cookie from the list and double-click or choose 'Edit', then set the expiry date to something a little less distant, say 2007-01-01.
Caveats OK, so you're still browsing with your IP visible, but that's never been a 100% reliable way to track a person anyway, even with a static or long-lived IP. You'll need Google cookies to use Google services that require a Google Account so you probably can't realistically stop being tracked if you wish to continue using those services. Previous versions of Opera can do most of the above too but the procedure is different. Tin foil can chafe.
Like any tool, CSS can be abused. Absolute positioning is a powerful tool that is easy to misuse in WWW environments because it tends to be used with pixel units to create print-centric, rigid designs that can't be scaled/zoomed (e.g. in pre-IE7 browsers, Firefox). Pixels may be great for kiosks and other fixed width/height environments but there're not good for use with current mainstream browsers - but use 'em' and 'percentage' units and you can automatically create designs that resize to the viewport and the user's preferred font size without the problems you describe.
Something I advise developers new to CSS is to avoid using absolute positioning until they clearly understand the side-effects of applying it and to generally treat it as a last resort in the CSS toolbox - kind of like 'if-all-else-fails try the sledgehammer'. With a well structured document as a foundation (headings, lists, et al) then a good understanding of floats, margins and clear can do most layout tricks for you, but if there's no other way but to use absolute positioning then use it with 'em' and 'percentage' units again to keep it scaling. Granted that this is difficult to do if developers use todays WYSIWYG authoring tools - almost by definition.
Not a giant step backwards by any means, developers of problematic sites just need to think a bit more about the best use of the tools in the CSS toolbox and a bit more about designs that scale. After-all, it's possible to create rigid layout problems with table-based design too.
If the net result is to increase the chance of being eaten, this explains Steve Irwin!
Seriously though, it'd be interesting to see if there's statistical evidence that Toxoplasma is more common in adrenaline junkies than stay-at-home types.
Opera 8.0 beta (build 7401) on Win2K here (cough) but haven't been able to replicate this so far. JS-enabled and 'Block unwanted pop-ups' set. Drudgereport.com throws a js error but no pop-up/under. Deleting any drudgereport cookies and visiting from the address bar again generates a js error but no pop-up or pop-under. I do have 3rd-party cookies turned off so that could be a factor plus the 'advanced opera workspace' option is enabled. So for the time-being I'm still browsing pop-up free.
Out of interest the contents of the js file that's being served for drudgereport can be seen here.
Thanks for the reply aok, I was worried that that was going to be explanation:-(
AFAICR there were quite a few requests for the many-to-one behaviour on an official TB feature request list a while back, so there's a chance it might get implemented in the future.
Thunderbird now supports a user interface for creating multiple identities per e-mail account. This makes it easy to have several e-mail addresses which end up going into the same account.
Has anyone found any documentation on how to achieve this?
If I import my Outlook Express (OE) accounts I get a veritable shed load of multiple accounts each with their own inbox. As I have a lot of email accounts I prefer OEs many-to-one behaviour - many email accounts piped to one inbox with a column in the message index pane indicating the account each message came from.
If I create one Thunderbird 'account' and add multiple identities (each with its own email address) then Thunderbird doesn't seem to have a means to query the mail server for each additional identities address, it never queries the mailboxes of those aliases.
So has anyone managed to get Thunderbird to work with a single account/inbox that pulls in mail from multiple mail servers like OE does? It's the one thing that stops me from migrating from malware OE.
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From an outsiders perspective I'd say Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software ticks all of the boxes, e.g. "The Development Abstraction Layer". It's such a shame that they can't clone him on demand and ship him worldwide in 48 hours :(
With Opera 9 it's fairly simple to stop Google tracking you via cookies:
Displayed are the cookies Google currently has set for you at this domain. You have a number of choices at this point depending on your paranoia level, the most useful ones being:
Caveats
OK, so you're still browsing with your IP visible, but that's never been a 100% reliable way to track a person anyway, even with a static or long-lived IP. You'll need Google cookies to use Google services that require a Google Account so you probably can't realistically stop being tracked if you wish to continue using those services. Previous versions of Opera can do most of the above too but the procedure is different. Tin foil can chafe.
Like any tool, CSS can be abused. Absolute positioning is a powerful tool that is easy to misuse in WWW environments because it tends to be used with pixel units to create print-centric, rigid designs that can't be scaled/zoomed (e.g. in pre-IE7 browsers, Firefox). Pixels may be great for kiosks and other fixed width/height environments but there're not good for use with current mainstream browsers - but use 'em' and 'percentage' units and you can automatically create designs that resize to the viewport and the user's preferred font size without the problems you describe.
Something I advise developers new to CSS is to avoid using absolute positioning until they clearly understand the side-effects of applying it and to generally treat it as a last resort in the CSS toolbox - kind of like 'if-all-else-fails try the sledgehammer'. With a well structured document as a foundation (headings, lists, et al) then a good understanding of floats, margins and clear can do most layout tricks for you, but if there's no other way but to use absolute positioning then use it with 'em' and 'percentage' units again to keep it scaling. Granted that this is difficult to do if developers use todays WYSIWYG authoring tools - almost by definition.
Not a giant step backwards by any means, developers of problematic sites just need to think a bit more about the best use of the tools in the CSS toolbox and a bit more about designs that scale. After-all, it's possible to create rigid layout problems with table-based design too.
If the net result is to increase the chance of being eaten, this explains Steve Irwin!
Seriously though, it'd be interesting to see if there's statistical evidence that Toxoplasma is more common in adrenaline junkies than stay-at-home types.
Opera 8.0 beta (build 7401) on Win2K here (cough) but haven't been able to replicate this so far. JS-enabled and 'Block unwanted pop-ups' set. Drudgereport.com throws a js error but no pop-up/under. Deleting any drudgereport cookies and visiting from the address bar again generates a js error but no pop-up or pop-under. I do have 3rd-party cookies turned off so that could be a factor plus the 'advanced opera workspace' option is enabled. So for the time-being I'm still browsing pop-up free.
Out of interest the contents of the js file that's being served for drudgereport can be seen here.
Thanks for the reply aok, I was worried that that was going to be explanation :-(
AFAICR there were quite a few requests for the many-to-one behaviour on an official TB feature request list a while back, so there's a chance it might get implemented in the future.
If I import my Outlook Express (OE) accounts I get a veritable shed load of multiple accounts each with their own inbox. As I have a lot of email accounts I prefer OEs many-to-one behaviour - many email accounts piped to one inbox with a column in the message index pane indicating the account each message came from.
If I create one Thunderbird 'account' and add multiple identities (each with its own email address) then Thunderbird doesn't seem to have a means to query the mail server for each additional identities address, it never queries the mailboxes of those aliases.
So has anyone managed to get Thunderbird to work with a single account/inbox that pulls in mail from multiple mail servers like OE does? It's the one thing that stops me from migrating from malware OE.
A few folks have a contrary opinion on the use of Verdana and fixed font sizes when applied to the web:
A popular article on the differences in designing for printed media and the web at Web Pages aren't Printed on Paper. Check out the global comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets for further resources.
Oh, you mean: "teach them C++"
How are you meant to sow the plant without blowing your limbs off?
Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device, or "B.O.O.K." as it is sometimes known.