If every website used XHTML and linked CSS stylesheets then the world would be a much better (and faster!) place.
For exanple, take a site like this: http://www.nthwclan.com/ut2004/
It's written in XHTML and the code is lightweight, averaging about 3K per page.
You also have: http://www.nthwclan.com/ut2004/?no_css ...which is about 500 bytes less, for mobile platforms.
Such a site can be viewed on literally any device because the code is so lightweight.
If this were done in Slashdot-style HTML 3.x markup then the page would probably be in excess of 20 KB and therefore useless for mobile browsing.
In all seriousness, I definitely like the new "PSSU" (Post-Setup Security Updates) feature. Awful name, but it does the following when someone first installs Windows 2003:
1.) Blocks all incoming traffic.
2.) Immediately guides the first person who logs on through downloading updates.
This would be such a terrific blessing for new XP users: block traffic and immediately send them off to the update site. Excellent idea.
It's not such a great idea if the only access you have to the machine is by Remote Desktop.
This is due to NTLM authentication, I work as a web developer in a corporate environment and always check my HTML/CSS output in Firefox first.
Only problem is, you need to input your Windows domain username/password before viewing any internal page served up by IIS.
IE (as per usual) happily gives the server my authentication data...this is why IE is unfortunately here to stay in the office environment, unless you run Apache.
Maybe I'm old, but Netscape stored its bookmarks in an HTML file you could regularly FTP up to your homepage, or something similar. Oh, and back in the day, if you had the time, you could update your homepage a lot.
Firefox (and Mozilla) still store bookmarks as HTML.
Somehow I don't think they'd wait until 3 weeks before it goes on air to perform the final edit.
The majority of series are finished (filming and editing) months before release and I know they did, because the last bits of the episode (Queens Arcade and the area when she joins the Dr at the end) were filmed in my home city of Cardiff.
Due to all the flaws in IE that pop up so often, I'm always very tempted to use something else other than my IE as my main browser. But, until Firefox decides to start supporting things like scrollbar colors, give it somewhat more configurable toolbars, and perhaps optimize it a bit better for speed in Windows, I'm just not going to switch.
It never will support scrollbar colours, thank god.
I hate developers who try to take over the UI of somebody's web browser, it almost as bad as popup windows.
I can tell by that statement that you are obviously an IE fanboy who only codes for that browser.
Just FYI, I'm also a web developer who uses PHP or VB.NET with XHTML Strict & CSS 1-2 and I'd never dream of enforcing crappy colours on my users.
"The original company was bought by America Online and its Web browser gradually faded into irrelevance, but a group of programmers took the guts of Netscape and created a new browsing "engine" called Gecko, one that was developed in a co-operative fashion along with the "open-source" software community. That engine forms the basis for a new browser called Firefox, which is free for Windows and Mac users."
This'll probably get me modded down, but I was once asked to create a spim Perl script for somebody (for money) and here's the source:
#!usr/bin/perl
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET')
{
@pairs = split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
}
elsif ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST')
{
read (STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
if ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'})
{
@getpairs = split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
push(@pairs,@getpairs);
}
} else {
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Use the POST or GET methods."; }
foreach $pair (@pairs) { ($key, $value) = split (/=/, $pair); $key =~ tr/+//; $key =~ tr/+//; $key =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; $value =~ tr/+//; $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg ; $value =~ s///g; if ($formdata{$key}) { $formdata{$key}.= ", $value"; } else { $formdata{$key} = $value; } } 1; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "Sent message from $formdata{'sendername'}, to $formdata{'recipient'}!"; use lib '.'; use Net::AIM; $aim = new Net::AIM; $conn = $aim->newconn (Screenname => $formdata{'sendername'},
Password => $formdata{'password'}); foreach my $i (0..4) {
$aim->do_one_loop || last;
sleep 1; } $aim->send_im ( $formdata{'recipient'},$formdata{'message'}); sle ep 1; print "";
It takes the following variables: $sendername, $password (for AOL login), $recipient and $message by either POST or GET. I kinda regret doing it now but it paid the rent at the time...
In my experience, AMD Athlon CPUs tend to perform better at video editing which is why I chose an FX-53 over a P4EE - it has much better memory bandwidth due to the memory controller being on the CPU instead of the northbridge and the FPU performance is usually superior.
Of course, there's always the 64-bit thing to take into consideration (and the no-execute extensions in Windows XP SP2).
Intel themselves admit that the only way they could make 64-bit desktop chips was by copying the AMD 64-bit extensions.
Mozillas default interface also resembles the old Netscape Navigator interface wich feels kinda old to the people that switched over to IE back in 1996.
I know, they are really holding themselves back over this one - a lot of people don't actually realise that they can change to another theme.
IIRC, the only reason why this is the default theme is because the "modern" theme doesn't display properly in 256 colours on certain systems.
I know, it's a bit silly really.
True, but the open source model is perfectly suited to the actual game engines.
You could have a system similar to Mozilla Firefox (the runtime environment) and then people would come along and make their own games our of it by creating content (like the extensions).
How is this redundant?
I am a pure 100% Mozilla supporter but merely pointing out that the guy probably uses IE most of the time because he's an M$ employee - nice moderation folks...
Slashdot Mirror
The ./ post said this:
More and more companies are starting to use internal content distributed in the form of RSS.
It's obvious that they are talking about a LAN here...
If every website used XHTML and linked CSS stylesheets then the world would be a much better (and faster!) place.
...which is about 500 bytes less, for mobile platforms.
For exanple, take a site like this:
http://www.nthwclan.com/ut2004/
It's written in XHTML and the code is lightweight, averaging about 3K per page.
You also have:
http://www.nthwclan.com/ut2004/?no_css
Such a site can be viewed on literally any device because the code is so lightweight.
If this were done in Slashdot-style HTML 3.x markup then the page would probably be in excess of 20 KB and therefore useless for mobile browsing.
I've never had a problem with Halo on XP SP2, even with NX enabled.
No problems running it under XP x64 either.
And with ASP:
This is due to NTLM authentication, I work as a web developer in a corporate environment and always check my HTML/CSS output in Firefox first.
Only problem is, you need to input your Windows domain username/password before viewing any internal page served up by IIS.
IE (as per usual) happily gives the server my authentication data...this is why IE is unfortunately here to stay in the office environment, unless you run Apache.
Somehow I don't think they'd wait until 3 weeks before it goes on air to perform the final edit.
The majority of series are finished (filming and editing) months before release and I know they did, because the last bits of the episode (Queens Arcade and the area when she joins the Dr at the end) were filmed in my home city of Cardiff.
In the UK, the framerate is 25fps.
It never will support scrollbar colours, thank god.
I hate developers who try to take over the UI of somebody's web browser, it almost as bad as popup windows.
I can tell by that statement that you are obviously an IE fanboy who only codes for that browser.
Just FYI, I'm also a web developer who uses PHP or VB
*ahem*
Care to include Linux in that?
This'll probably get me modded down, but I was once asked to create a spim Perl script for somebody (for money) and here's the source:
/; $key =~ tr/+/ /; /; $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",g ; .= ", $value";e ep 1;
#!usr/bin/perl
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET')
{
@pairs = split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
}
elsif ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST')
{
read (STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
if ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'})
{
@getpairs = split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
push(@pairs,@getpairs);
}
}
else
{
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Use the POST or GET methods."; }
foreach $pair (@pairs) { ($key, $value) = split (/=/, $pair);
$key =~ tr/+/
$key =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
$value =~ tr/+/
hex($1))/e
$value =~ s///g; if ($formdata{$key}) { $formdata{$key}
}
else { $formdata{$key} = $value; } } 1;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Sent message from $formdata{'sendername'}, to
$formdata{'recipient'}!";
use lib '.';
use Net::AIM;
$aim = new Net::AIM;
$conn = $aim->newconn (Screenname => $formdata{'sendername'},
Password => $formdata{'password'});
foreach my $i (0..4) {
$aim->do_one_loop || last;
sleep 1;
}
$aim->send_im ( $formdata{'recipient'},$formdata{'message'});
sl
print "";
It takes the following variables:
$sendername, $password (for AOL login), $recipient and $message by either POST or GET.
I kinda regret doing it now but it paid the rent at the time...
...and what about the that he fails to mention then eh? http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2004/May/04/the_input_ type_crash_bug.html
I know, I submitted this days ago when the news broke but the editors took too long in posting it...
In my experience, AMD Athlon CPUs tend to perform better at video editing which is why I chose an FX-53 over a P4EE - it has much better memory bandwidth due to the memory controller being on the CPU instead of the northbridge and the FPU performance is usually superior.
Of course, there's always the 64-bit thing to take into consideration (and the no-execute extensions in Windows XP SP2).
Intel themselves admit that the only way they could make 64-bit desktop chips was by copying the AMD 64-bit extensions.
Google cache.
The theory that the decoded alien messages read "V1aGr4 4 ultra low prices!!!!1" is pure speculation...
The proper way now is via update.mozilla.org.
True, but the open source model is perfectly suited to the actual game engines. You could have a system similar to Mozilla Firefox (the runtime environment) and then people would come along and make their own games our of it by creating content (like the extensions).
How is this redundant? I am a pure 100% Mozilla supporter but merely pointing out that the guy probably uses IE most of the time because he's an M$ employee - nice moderation folks...