"The choice to wed slashdot to CSS is slashdot's problem, not any browser's."
This made me curious and i turned off CSS in firefox. Guess what ? it is very usable. I thought, this might be FF only so I tried w3m, wow it's very usable. w3m is a very advanced console browser, so I have tried lynx and it is still usable.
The current implementation is very much what I understand as "best viewed with your own eyes". If the browser doesn't support CSS it'll work well and is usable. Or do you prefer a gazillion nested tables instead ?
'I'm not even a MS fanboy, and I have a hard time taking offense at an OS asking me "are you sure" anymore. And I can't even turn it off in Linux (short of running SU), or OS X. Basically, its still too weak.'
Ever used gksu (the gnome su) or the commandline sudo, it reads your/etc/sudoers, so you cxan turn it off by granting you root access with NOPASSWD (stupid idea but it works). not sure for OSX since i do not use it.
IANAL. I personally think such parents should be charged for sending a wrong singal to their upgrowings. They basicly say: "Look, if you screw up to do your duty and something unpleasant happens about it, find some one related to this issue (although irresponsible for that matter) and blame them".
"... a lot of them won't install, even though they work perfectly."
I am not sure if this is still true. I have written a couple of extensions for FF/TB and NVu. I have then checked what needs to be done to make them available in in SeaMonkey. SM uses quiet different structure for the menu overlay for example (altough consisten over platforms unlike FF). As you mention the install scripts have to be added. then (this is some while back) the chrome registry in SM used RDF files while FF isn't. And there are probably other differences (think of the preferneces dialo).
While these are small changes, it takes quiet some time to figure out all the details.
in the country, here in europe, where I live we have a saying: "hang the green party members as long as there are enough trees left".
some people were predciting the end of oil by 2000, some say, global warming is killing us in the next 50 years. IMHO we really do not know exactly what the impact will be, but I think we know enough to be sure that the industrialization is the source of the problem. therefore, we really should have the tools to monitor global warming to have proper estimates and take proper actions.
accusing developing countries for beeing the source of the problem doesn't help. 1st world countries are polluting the world the most. We got to a point where we have the wealth to think about it and we have the duty to reverse our wrong doing as soon as possible.
I am 30 years old now. I fear that (during my life time) i will really experience the downside from the disinterests of what our parents and what my generation has done to our environment. Due to our wealth, we can really afford to do something against it. 3rd world countries will first have to reach a level of wealth to have the luxury to think about issues like this (humans are egoistic, y'know).
Somebody has to start a change, what's wrong if those do who can afford and have already contributed the most to the problem ?
<script type=...>
var atags = document.getElementsByName("a");
for(current=atags.item(0); current; current=current.nextSibling)
current.onclick = open_nasty_popup();
function open_nasty_popup() {...}
</scrip>
the above code will bypass most (if not any) popup blocker. On every a tag (link) in the page, an onclick handler is added to the link. popup blocker block popups which are opened without user interaction. because a click is a user interaction, popup blocker won't normally stop such windows from opening (and that's good so, because many web applications use oclick to open additional windows).
This is what I have observed since FF shipped. There might be nastier ways in the meanwhile.
American public education must be stopped. The high school I graduated from recently enforced school uniforms, suspending students who refuse to conform.
Access to good education should be a basic right of every person. Therefore I demand that private education must be stopped to ensure a future for your country. If private schooling is stopped, the good educational staff will be available to everyone again and not just to those few which can afford it.
I know, this is impossible and probably silly to be regulated. Personally everyone should also have the right to learn more/different than public schools can offer.
Still, i personally think there lies the problem in the "US and A", a good teacher will earn much more in a private school.
this is an interesting summary about network affected display time. i would like to add that nowadays, with more complex pages, the rendering time has also to be taken into account. for example; with the use of bloated/redundant/unneeded css declarations, java and flash applets the pageload (until it is actualy display to the user) can be slowed down pretty badly. if you don't belive me, go an check out myspace.com:P
i can code to standards and add a few hacks for IE and still get payed. Maybe you just want to leave out the browser specific bullshit like document.all..., ...>, etc. and start creating pages which degrade greacefully if the client's browser doesnt support all the bells and whisles (read xmlhttprequest for example).
On the other hand, i would certainly make more money when IE7 comes out and i could remake all the sites for "the new browser" (as long as the customer would understand the need).
"I currently don't like NoScript because of the bar that's constantly at the bottom of every site with scripts by... "
Mozilla products are very nice because of their customisation possibilities. You can do the following:
1. open Dom inspector 2. File > Instepct a window > [select any window just not a document] 3. Search > Select Element By Click 4. click on the annoying element 5. Profit!!!... just kidding
then see how you can identify it, if it has a n ID attribute this would be the easiest way, otherwise search for the first id in a parent node.
then open your profile folder, create the file "chrome/userChrome.css" if it does not exist. Then you can simply add some CSS (2, partially 3... just everything that is supported by mozilla) like: -- #elementid {display: none;} or #parentelement elementname {display: none;} --
done. You can modify any aspect of firefox (and derivates) this way, this doesn't work for SeaMonkey/Mozilla Suite however, since the UI is only in FF implemented in XUL.
in theory this might work, ever tried to use "try() {...} catch() {...}" in IE6 ? good luck. the xmlhttprequest interfaces are not 100% the same on all browsers (which support it), one still has to write crossbrowser code, i could go on for days (there are many nice "ajax" libraries which deal with these issues).
I haven't read the book,however i was always happy with the oreilly books on javscript, because these books pointet out most of the browser differences/annoyances to keep in mind while designing.
i have been a kde user since ~97 (can't remember exactly, however pre 1.0 versions). All your complaints are really solved/fixed in gnome, this is where i have settleded. it offers the stuff i really need on a daily basis right in front of my eyes, all the more complex tasks are eighter reachable trough menues/keyboard-shortcuts.
As a OS X user, you'd be surprised that former apple employees designed and started gnome to bring a "mac" experience to the *nix desktop.
... If Mozilla Corp is smart, they'll exclude the user-agent string from trademark issues so that at least usage statistics will show a unified product, rather ruining firefox's growing usage statistics rank in a schism.
from a technical point of view this is already the case. gecko is the name of the render engine and this is what all mozilla derived browsers should (and mostly) have in their UA strings along with a build date.
For example: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060921b Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.7
How do you test safari under linux ? i have searched for source and build instructions to get a linux build of safari, without any luck (it's not the same as the khtml project anymore, the differ slightly, so... konquerer is not enough to test for safari).
yes i know what you are talking about. theoretical it would work for games which do not need super fast video performance. However, modern copy protection programs make it awfully painfull to run modern games in (for example) vmware.
I'm thinking of making my PC triple or more boot; a flavor of Linux, XP, 98, and DOS 6 ought to let me run all the programs I've collected over the years (that will no longer run on my 21st century computer).
except for games, have you considered qemu or VMWare Server under Linux ? You would not have to boot, just emulate/virtualize the windows/dos oses on a linux host (or on a windows host).
IE7 will have PNG transparency, i haven't seen an animated gif on a serious site for a long time... and then, when it is animated it is most probably flash which offers a ton more options.
back in the days when i did construction work (91-97) _all_ professional CAD solutions were sold for some sort of a *nix (we used hp unix, and some sun workstations back then). When the millenium changed, a lot of these programms were also ported to windows. Nowadays, most of them are available on windows, some not anymore for unix.
CAD workers are tech savy people. Out of all of them i have met which have worked on windows and *nix for doing their construction work, none of them favoured windows. why ? lack of stability and flexibility. The X-Windows system (to start with) gives the admins and the user much more flexibility over their desktop than windows. It gives much more choice about hardware (you are not tied to x86 and derived architectures), etc. Stability; i haven't seen a CAD system which was available on windows and *nix which was running more stable on windows.
But maybe that was not your point ? Personally i don't think that a professional CAD system, which costs eg. $2000-$10000 on windows, should be automagically available for free on linux just becasue the OS is free. So i'd rather compare apples with apples, go check for professional solutions.
and btw: how many CAD solutions are listed on windows.com ?
You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.
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oh right, the local resolver can do this too, as you said, when a domain suffix is configured.
that's probably your proxy trying to resolve internal hostnames. I have never seen this behavior in FF when no proxy was configured.
HTML + XSLT + XML-FO. XML-FO is an apache project (or at least was 3-4 years back when I used it).
Cheers,
-S
"The choice to wed slashdot to CSS is slashdot's problem, not any browser's."
This made me curious and i turned off CSS in firefox. Guess what ? it is very usable. I thought, this might be FF only so I tried w3m, wow it's very usable. w3m is a very advanced console browser, so I have tried lynx and it is still usable.
The current implementation is very much what I understand as "best viewed with your own eyes". If the browser doesn't support CSS it'll work well and is usable. Or do you prefer a gazillion nested tables instead ?
'I'm not even a MS fanboy, and I have a hard time taking offense at an OS asking me "are you sure" anymore. And I can't even turn it off in Linux (short of running SU), or OS X. Basically, its still too weak.'
/etc/sudoers, so you cxan turn it off by granting you root access with NOPASSWD (stupid idea but it works). not sure for OSX since i do not use it.
Ever used gksu (the gnome su) or the commandline sudo, it reads your
IANAL. I personally think such parents should be charged for sending a wrong singal to their upgrowings. They basicly say: "Look, if you screw up to do your duty and something unpleasant happens about it, find some one related to this issue (although irresponsible for that matter) and blame them".
"... a lot of them won't install, even though they work perfectly."
I am not sure if this is still true. I have written a couple of extensions for FF/TB and NVu. I have then checked what needs to be done to make them available in in SeaMonkey. SM uses quiet different structure for the menu overlay for example (altough consisten over platforms unlike FF). As you mention the install scripts have to be added. then (this is some while back) the chrome registry in SM used RDF files while FF isn't. And there are probably other differences (think of the preferneces dialo).
While these are small changes, it takes quiet some time to figure out all the details.
in the country, here in europe, where I live we have a saying: "hang the green party members as long as there are enough trees left".
some people were predciting the end of oil by 2000, some say, global warming is killing us in the next 50 years. IMHO we really do not know exactly what the impact will be, but I think we know enough to be sure that the industrialization is the source of the problem. therefore, we really should have the tools to monitor global warming to have proper estimates and take proper actions.
accusing developing countries for beeing the source of the problem doesn't help. 1st world countries are polluting the world the most. We got to a point where we have the wealth to think about it and we have the duty to reverse our wrong doing as soon as possible.
I am 30 years old now. I fear that (during my life time) i will really experience the downside from the disinterests of what our parents and what my generation has done to our environment. Due to our wealth, we can really afford to do something against it. 3rd world countries will first have to reach a level of wealth to have the luxury to think about issues like this (humans are egoistic, y'know).
Somebody has to start a change, what's wrong if those do who can afford and have already contributed the most to the problem ?
var atags = document.getElementsByName("a");
for(current=atags.item(0); current; current=current.nextSibling)
current.onclick = open_nasty_popup();
function open_nasty_popup() {...}
</scrip>
the above code will bypass most (if not any) popup blocker. On every a tag (link) in the page, an onclick handler is added to the link. popup blocker block popups which are opened without user interaction. because a click is a user interaction, popup blocker won't normally stop such windows from opening (and that's good so, because many web applications use oclick to open additional windows).
This is what I have observed since FF shipped. There might be nastier ways in the meanwhile.
Cheers,
-S
Access to good education should be a basic right of every person. Therefore I demand that private education must be stopped to ensure a future for your country. If private schooling is stopped, the good educational staff will be available to everyone again and not just to those few which can afford it.
I know, this is impossible and probably silly to be regulated. Personally everyone should also have the right to learn more/different than public schools can offer.
Still, i personally think there lies the problem in the "US and A", a good teacher will earn much more in a private school.
this is an interesting summary about network affected display time. i would like to add that nowadays, with more complex pages, the rendering time has also to be taken into account. for example; with the use of bloated/redundant/unneeded css declarations, java and flash applets the pageload (until it is actualy display to the user) can be slowed down pretty badly. if you don't belive me, go an check out myspace.com :P
Cheers,
-S
i can code to standards and add a few hacks for IE and still get payed. Maybe you just want to leave out the browser specific bullshit like document.all...,...>, etc. and start creating pages which degrade greacefully if the client's browser doesnt support all the bells and whisles (read xmlhttprequest for example).
On the other hand, i would certainly make more money when IE7 comes out and i could remake all the sites for "the new browser" (as long as the customer would understand the need).
Cheers,
-S
"I currently don't like NoScript because of the bar that's constantly at the bottom of every site with scripts by ... "
... just kidding
... just everything that is supported by mozilla) like:
Mozilla products are very nice because of their customisation possibilities. You can do the following:
1. open Dom inspector
2. File > Instepct a window > [select any window just not a document]
3. Search > Select Element By Click
4. click on the annoying element
5. Profit!!!
then see how you can identify it, if it has a n ID attribute this would be the easiest way, otherwise search for the first id in a parent node.
then open your profile folder, create the file "chrome/userChrome.css" if it does not exist. Then you can simply add some CSS (2, partially 3
--
#elementid {display: none;}
or
#parentelement elementname {display: none;}
--
done. You can modify any aspect of firefox (and derivates) this way, this doesn't work for SeaMonkey/Mozilla Suite however, since the UI is only in FF implemented in XUL.
Have fun!
-S
nice example.
,however i was always happy with the oreilly books on javscript, because these books pointet out most of the browser differences/annoyances to keep in mind while designing.
in theory this might work, ever tried to use "try() {...} catch() {...}" in IE6 ? good luck. the xmlhttprequest interfaces are not 100% the same on all browsers (which support it), one still has to write crossbrowser code, i could go on for days (there are many nice "ajax" libraries which deal with these issues).
I haven't read the book
Cheers,
-S
"I DO have extensive experience operating older S5W reactor plants, ..."
is that you, homer ?
i have been a kde user since ~97 (can't remember exactly, however pre 1.0 versions). All your complaints are really solved/fixed in gnome, this is where i have settleded. it offers the stuff i really need on a daily basis right in front of my eyes, all the more complex tasks are eighter reachable trough menues/keyboard-shortcuts.
As a OS X user, you'd be surprised that former apple employees designed and started gnome to bring a "mac" experience to the *nix desktop.
Cheers,
-S
For example:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060921b Ubuntu/dapper-security Firefox/1.5.0.7
How do you test safari under linux ? i have searched for source and build instructions to get a linux build of safari, without any luck (it's not the same as the khtml project anymore, the differ slightly, so ... konquerer is not enough to test for safari).
yes i know what you are talking about. theoretical it would work for games which do not need super fast video performance. However, modern copy protection programs make it awfully painfull to run modern games in (for example) vmware.
Cheers,
-S
Cheers,
-S
IE7 will have PNG transparency, i haven't seen an animated gif on a serious site for a long time ... and then, when it is animated it is most probably flash which offers a ton more options.
:)
I'd say: finally it's free, just too late guys
back in the days when i did construction work (91-97) _all_ professional CAD solutions were sold for some sort of a *nix (we used hp unix, and some sun workstations back then). When the millenium changed, a lot of these programms were also ported to windows. Nowadays, most of them are available on windows, some not anymore for unix.
CAD workers are tech savy people. Out of all of them i have met which have worked on windows and *nix for doing their construction work, none of them favoured windows. why ? lack of stability and flexibility. The X-Windows system (to start with) gives the admins and the user much more flexibility over their desktop than windows. It gives much more choice about hardware (you are not tied to x86 and derived architectures), etc. Stability; i haven't seen a CAD system which was available on windows and *nix which was running more stable on windows.
But maybe that was not your point ? Personally i don't think that a professional CAD system, which costs eg. $2000-$10000 on windows, should be automagically available for free on linux just becasue the OS is free. So i'd rather compare apples with apples, go check for professional solutions.
and btw: how many CAD solutions are listed on windows.com ?
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hehe, you are right.