Dreamhost, the ever-popular cheap geeky webhost, has supported PHP 5 for a while. They actually give you an option between PHP 4 and PHP 5 in their control panel on a per-domain basis.. that's the way they do business.
SVG is absolutely built into Firefox 1.5. I've been using the nightly buids for months now, and it's there (I've tested it myself.) It's possible that they may set about:config's svg.enabled to false for the final release, but I think that is highly unlikely.
The plan is that it will actually drive the cost of web development down by forcing IE to get better.
Right now a lot of web developers' time is spent working around IE bugs. A random one of thousands of examples is making a dotted border - a simple, common request. The CSS is "border: 1px dotted blue". Non-IE browsers happily obey. To do this in IE you actually need to make/upload 2px GIFs, and set them to tile in such a way that they look like dotted borders.
If the popularity of standard browsers forces Microsoft to improve IE's standards support, and IE gets things like alpha transparency in graphics and a sane box model, the time/cost saved will outweigh that of having to deal with different event registering models.
In summary, now that there's competition again, web development can actually start to improve once more - it could end up being cheaper even.
Actually according to TFA, realtime train position info (specifically, next train ETA) will show up on displays in the stations. It'd probably be an easy step to get this on the web once more of the lines are automated.
Wow, someone I could recognize IRL got modded +5 on Slashdot. Amazing.
It's surprisingly not that hard (a quarter of my posts in the last year have been +5ed.) The trick is to watch for a topic that you know more about than the average person (for me it might be Macs, Mozilla, or Vancouver) and post a quick, concise comment. Works more often than I expected it would!
Here in Vancouver, we occasionally have an issue on our automated rapid transit trains with people holding the doors. Luckily, in the absense of a conductor to yell at the fool holding everybody up, the other train passengers take on this role. The doors will try to close, and if obstructed, will re-open for about 2 seconds. If you're still in the way a second time, people start to voice their annoyance that you're making them late for work.
Depending on the batteries and device, some rechargeable batteries won't even last for a month when not in use. My digital camera suffers from this: I've learned that I can't keep it ready for use for weeks, I have to keep the batteries in the charger and pull them out when I want to use the camera.
Going all-online for getting games into people's hands has one huge problem: Christmas. A lot of the reason so many games are bought at Wal-mart is that the gamers aren't buying them, their grandmas are. Gamer-kid says, "Grandma, I want Half-Life 2 for my birthday." If it wasn't at Wal-Mart, gamer-kid instead receives NHL 2006.
Quite true. Or even worse, the managament drones who do realize long-term planning and thinking is needed get ousted due to bad Q3 results before their planning comes to fruition.
Google goes out of its way to spend a significant percentage of its time on technology that is innovative first, that they don't know yet how to make profitable. Google News and just about all the stuff in Google Labs only cost them money, but they're smart enough to think longer term than that.
Here is the full list of changes and related bugs for Firefox 1.0.1.
You'll note that it's quite terse - this is not the 1.1 update from trunk that will get us rendering fixes, etc. that we'll see in June or so. Almost all security fixes here.
This is exactly what you'll see in IE7's CSS support.
- It will have "full CSS2" support according to marketing, fixing some of the most obvious and well-known failures in IE's CSS implementation.
- Like IE6, it will actually break some things that used to work, and there will still be a lot of things that don't quite work right, and specific circumstances (such as:hover won't work right on floated elements with position:relative, or whatever.)
- The press and Microsoft marketing will celebrate IE7's standards compliance and declare victory over Firefox.
- Normal users will download Firefox less because they don't care about standards, they just care about tabs and other features.
- The guys over at A List Apart and mezzoblue will cry out in pain at another set of CSS bugs they need to work around to get things to work right.
put your middle finger on the right side of the trackpad; then put your index finger on the left side; then remove the middle finger
This trick is considered accidental trackpad input by OS X. As such, it will be ignored by default (this behaviour can be changed by unchecking "Ignore accidental trackpad input" in the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane.
A June beta release from Microsoft may or may not beat Apple's June final release, but Tiger's punch was the beta DVDs that went to all Worldwide Developers' Conference attendees LAST summer.
Nightly builds have fixes + regressions
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Some of those security issues have been fixed in the nightly builds, but right now the nightlies have a whole whack of regressions that make them pretty close to unusable.
Usually the nightlies are quite usable, but after 1.0 was released they merged in all the Mozilla 1.x changes that had happened in the last 8 months or so, which brought about a whole load of regressions. I expect you'll be able to get more usable nightlies of Firefox 1.1 in a couple weeks leading up to the developer preview. (Also these builds include the perennial Slashdot rendering bug!)
I've been using Skype for Mac for a little while now, and I'm impressed with the quality of the UI on Mac OS X, and the fact that they're supporting four (count them, four) platforms with fully native interfaces on each platform. That's not something to sneeze at (we have enough problems with two where I work). These guys seem to really get attention to detail.
Just the fact that they can afford to do the UIs as well as they have, as fast as they have, hints at how lucrative their SkypeOut business is.
The old ideas of crumb trails (navigation paths on top of pages) are coming back, not because users need them but because Google needs them to crawl your site well.
No actually. Breadcrumb navigation is good for usability. Read about them from Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru himself, here and here. Breadcrumb navigation helps users get a mental picture of a website and where they are within it. It is particularly useful to users who come to a deep page from a search engine (be it MSN or Google) and need to orient themselves.
My guess is that this has to do with the fact Quicktime 7 will be coming out, and Steve wants to get it in as many people's hot little hands as fast as he can do so. Therefore, the keynote will require Quicktime 7 to play, and since nobody will have Quicktime 7 yet, it can't be broadcast live!
According to the impact risk site, the probability has been adjusted way down to 1.8e-05 with a Torino scale value of zero. A shame - I was hoping for some real drama and intrigue.
You can also see some cool videos of Sony's similar QRIO robot on their website (warning - RealPlayer format only). QRIO is smaller and more nimble, making 'him' arguably more interesting to watch. Nothing against ASIMO of course!
People who have never worked in tech support knows that all businesses lose millions of dollars a second every time...
People who haven't worked in tech support are marking this insightful or replying that it's exaggeration. If you work for tech support for an ISP or web host (or both, in my case) you'll find that a lot of customers will call, shouting about how ten minutes of downtime for their $19.95 hosting package is costing them thousands, if not millions of dollars. Either they're exaggerating, lying because they think the tech support guy can actually do anything different in that case, or are on a very underpowered hosting package.
While you can cite supply and demand, economies, etc. and that may all be valid, you should also take into account that often more people pay for a given movie (sometimes repeatedly in the theatre, then on DVD, then in Special Edition, then somebody pays to have it on TBS) than how many pay for a given album.
On a public website, of course. On an internal one, you get an interesting issue - it's significantly cheaper to code everything so it works in a standards-compliant browser(s), and only test in that browser(s). You won't lose any customers, and if you work where I do, Explorer is discouraged due to security issues anyway. So it's cheaper, and... it's cheaper.
Of course, people who have done a lot of CSS know very well that "Coding to standards" does not suffice for Internet Explorer - it's a lot of work to figure out what CSS breaks in IE, and how it does so, especially since you've probably got the newbie working on the intranet.
Right from the Google corporate philosophy: "Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat."
While it'd be wonderful for Google to come along in its shining armour and rescue us from the oppression of closed IM protocols, I think the fact that not doing chat is right in their official philosophy is worth noting. Of course Apple's iChat will have support for it, in OS X 10.4, and others may well follow... just maybe not Google.
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Dreamhost, the ever-popular cheap geeky webhost, has supported PHP 5 for a while. They actually give you an option between PHP 4 and PHP 5 in their control panel on a per-domain basis.. that's the way they do business.
See: Mozilla SVG Update and Mozilla SVG Status for some more info.
The plan is that it will actually drive the cost of web development down by forcing IE to get better.
Right now a lot of web developers' time is spent working around IE bugs. A random one of thousands of examples is making a dotted border - a simple, common request. The CSS is "border: 1px dotted blue". Non-IE browsers happily obey. To do this in IE you actually need to make/upload 2px GIFs, and set them to tile in such a way that they look like dotted borders.
If the popularity of standard browsers forces Microsoft to improve IE's standards support, and IE gets things like alpha transparency in graphics and a sane box model, the time/cost saved will outweigh that of having to deal with different event registering models.
In summary, now that there's competition again, web development can actually start to improve once more - it could end up being cheaper even.
Actually according to TFA, realtime train position info (specifically, next train ETA) will show up on displays in the stations. It'd probably be an easy step to get this on the web once more of the lines are automated.
It's surprisingly not that hard (a quarter of my posts in the last year have been +5ed.) The trick is to watch for a topic that you know more about than the average person (for me it might be Macs, Mozilla, or Vancouver) and post a quick, concise comment. Works more often than I expected it would!
Here in Vancouver, we occasionally have an issue on our automated rapid transit trains with people holding the doors. Luckily, in the absense of a conductor to yell at the fool holding everybody up, the other train passengers take on this role. The doors will try to close, and if obstructed, will re-open for about 2 seconds. If you're still in the way a second time, people start to voice their annoyance that you're making them late for work.
Depending on the batteries and device, some rechargeable batteries won't even last for a month when not in use. My digital camera suffers from this: I've learned that I can't keep it ready for use for weeks, I have to keep the batteries in the charger and pull them out when I want to use the camera.
Going all-online for getting games into people's hands has one huge problem: Christmas. A lot of the reason so many games are bought at Wal-mart is that the gamers aren't buying them, their grandmas are. Gamer-kid says, "Grandma, I want Half-Life 2 for my birthday." If it wasn't at Wal-Mart, gamer-kid instead receives NHL 2006.
Quite true. Or even worse, the managament drones who do realize long-term planning and thinking is needed get ousted due to bad Q3 results before their planning comes to fruition.
Google goes out of its way to spend a significant percentage of its time on technology that is innovative first, that they don't know yet how to make profitable. Google News and just about all the stuff in Google Labs only cost them money, but they're smart enough to think longer term than that.
Here is the full list of changes and related bugs for Firefox 1.0.1.
You'll note that it's quite terse - this is not the 1.1 update from trunk that will get us rendering fixes, etc. that we'll see in June or so. Almost all security fixes here.
This is exactly what you'll see in IE7's CSS support.
:hover won't work right on floated elements with position:relative, or whatever.)
- It will have "full CSS2" support according to marketing, fixing some of the most obvious and well-known failures in IE's CSS implementation.
- Like IE6, it will actually break some things that used to work, and there will still be a lot of things that don't quite work right, and specific circumstances (such as
- The press and Microsoft marketing will celebrate IE7's standards compliance and declare victory over Firefox.
- Normal users will download Firefox less because they don't care about standards, they just care about tabs and other features.
- The guys over at A List Apart and mezzoblue will cry out in pain at another set of CSS bugs they need to work around to get things to work right.
put your middle finger on the right side of the trackpad; then put your index finger on the left side; then remove the middle finger
This trick is considered accidental trackpad input by OS X. As such, it will be ignored by default (this behaviour can be changed by unchecking "Ignore accidental trackpad input" in the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane.
A June beta release from Microsoft may or may not beat Apple's June final release, but Tiger's punch was the beta DVDs that went to all Worldwide Developers' Conference attendees LAST summer.
Some of those security issues have been fixed in the nightly builds, but right now the nightlies have a whole whack of regressions that make them pretty close to unusable.
Usually the nightlies are quite usable, but after 1.0 was released they merged in all the Mozilla 1.x changes that had happened in the last 8 months or so, which brought about a whole load of regressions. I expect you'll be able to get more usable nightlies of Firefox 1.1 in a couple weeks leading up to the developer preview. (Also these builds include the perennial Slashdot rendering bug!)
I've been using Skype for Mac for a little while now, and I'm impressed with the quality of the UI on Mac OS X, and the fact that they're supporting four (count them, four) platforms with fully native interfaces on each platform. That's not something to sneeze at (we have enough problems with two where I work). These guys seem to really get attention to detail.
Just the fact that they can afford to do the UIs as well as they have, as fast as they have, hints at how lucrative their SkypeOut business is.The old ideas of crumb trails (navigation paths on top of pages) are coming back, not because users need them but because Google needs them to crawl your site well.
No actually. Breadcrumb navigation is good for usability. Read about them from Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru himself, here and here. Breadcrumb navigation helps users get a mental picture of a website and where they are within it. It is particularly useful to users who come to a deep page from a search engine (be it MSN or Google) and need to orient themselves.
My guess is that this has to do with the fact Quicktime 7 will be coming out, and Steve wants to get it in as many people's hot little hands as fast as he can do so. Therefore, the keynote will require Quicktime 7 to play, and since nobody will have Quicktime 7 yet, it can't be broadcast live!
According to the impact risk site, the probability has been adjusted way down to 1.8e-05 with a Torino scale value of zero. A shame - I was hoping for some real drama and intrigue.
You can also see some cool videos of Sony's similar QRIO robot on their website (warning - RealPlayer format only). QRIO is smaller and more nimble, making 'him' arguably more interesting to watch. Nothing against ASIMO of course!
People who have never worked in tech support knows that all businesses lose millions of dollars a second every time...
People who haven't worked in tech support are marking this insightful or replying that it's exaggeration. If you work for tech support for an ISP or web host (or both, in my case) you'll find that a lot of customers will call, shouting about how ten minutes of downtime for their $19.95 hosting package is costing them thousands, if not millions of dollars. Either they're exaggerating, lying because they think the tech support guy can actually do anything different in that case, or are on a very underpowered hosting package.
While you can cite supply and demand, economies, etc. and that may all be valid, you should also take into account that often more people pay for a given movie (sometimes repeatedly in the theatre, then on DVD, then in Special Edition, then somebody pays to have it on TBS) than how many pay for a given album.
On a public website, of course. On an internal one, you get an interesting issue - it's significantly cheaper to code everything so it works in a standards-compliant browser(s), and only test in that browser(s). You won't lose any customers, and if you work where I do, Explorer is discouraged due to security issues anyway. So it's cheaper, and... it's cheaper.
Of course, people who have done a lot of CSS know very well that "Coding to standards" does not suffice for Internet Explorer - it's a lot of work to figure out what CSS breaks in IE, and how it does so, especially since you've probably got the newbie working on the intranet.
Right from the Google corporate philosophy: "Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat."
While it'd be wonderful for Google to come along in its shining armour and rescue us from the oppression of closed IM protocols, I think the fact that not doing chat is right in their official philosophy is worth noting. Of course Apple's iChat will have support for it, in OS X 10.4, and others may well follow... just maybe not Google.
AdSense admin works great in Safari... mind you, I have problems with GMail compose in Safari, so it's not all good.