Google could make a version of the Google Toolbar for Firefox. Google could suggest/recommend Firefox without rebranding it, but I'm not sure what they would gain from that.
Some bug fixes that would make Google happier: * bug 11459, option in Mozilla for mailto: links to go to a webmail service * bug 62467, highlight all "find" results in the page
Developers are supposed to know better than to run around complaining "the sky is falling" while the people involved are wrestling with really difficult structural problems.
His 1999 article doesn't come across to me as "the sky is falling". It came across to me as a well-motivated call to action.
What's amazing is that the people involved stayed involved, while having to read this kind of crap in the first place.
His 1999 article got me involved in the Mozilla project. Since then, I've reported over 1000 bugs, including over 50 security holes, and I now run The Burning Edge. If the article got me involved, I don't see why it would have discouraged existing Mozilla volunteers.
If you mean what I think you mean by "if your machine's compromised", having a master password makes you no more secure. The attacker just has to install a keylogger to get your master password.
This is annoying indeed, but it is predictable. Any other implementation would either require micromanagement or trigger flash displaying when you don't want it.
Not really. I could make it so shift+clicking a placeholder acts like clicking all of the placeholders on the page.
Firebird 0.9 will include a migration feature. It will work with at least IE/Win and Mozilla Seamonkey, and you can probably figure out which other browsers it will work with by looking at the migration branch on bonsai.
1) No print() or echo() function. If you want to write something to the equivilent of stdout, you need to use document.write(). And if you use alert() as you're debugging something, you'll quickly get tired of boxes that pop up, I know I have.
The shell is good for playing around with the DOM and can be used as a bookmarklet.
The simple development environment lets you test longer bits of code, but doesn't let you use the DOM, only core JavaScript features like variables, functions, objects, closures, and regular expressions. Leonard Lin is using it to teach some students JavaScript as their first language.
That's my point, sort of. The parent to my post seemed to be agreeing with many usage commentators (but disagreeing with most Americans) that "naseous" is supposed to mean "nauseating" rather than "nauseated".
I love my American Heritage Dictionary of English Usage. It gives histories of the controveries and actual usage patterns, and its editors have found a good balance between not disagreeing with traditional usage commentators and practicality.
As long as your income is high enough to outweigh the risk, and you can get a "real job" quickly if you have to, I don't see anything your with depending on search engine ranks for a living.
If I understand correctly, you're using Google AdSense to display advertisers' AdWords on your site.
Why are the advertisers e-mailing you? Are they just randomly thanking you, or are they breaking Google's ToS by asking to pay you directly for ads instead of going through Google?
I can't think of anything wrong with the way Firebird handles mailto URLs. Firebird certainly handles them better than Mozilla Navigator -- Firebird opens them in your default mail program, while Mozilla Navigator always opens them in Mozilla Mail.
who blindly click links without checking their content
What's wrong with blindly clicking links? I can only think of a few situtations where it makes sense to check the URL of a link, like when you get an e-mail "from eBay" and want to make sure its links actually take you to eBay.
(1) Checkbox to disable "kiosk mode" from EVER happening! (2) Checkbox to disable pop-up windows (or prompt user per pop-up) as opposed to disabling Javascript altogether.
Why does Microsoft want to own MikeRoweSoft.com? Why didn't they just ask Mike to change MikeRoweSoft.com to a page saying "MikeRoweSoft.com has been renamed/moved to _MikeRoweForums.com_ to avoid confusion with the _Microsoft Corporation_."?
If you're commenting on the "troll" moderation, then you're probably right. But I also got a lot of "interesting" moderations, which indicates that I pleased some democratic moderators. I guess that's what happens when you post something political.
"With existing IRBM hardware we could put a man into orbit in a year. But don't ask me how we'd get him back. If a man would be ready to sacrifice his life by being fired into orbit it would answer some of the questions about space flight, but even if one volunteered we probably couldn't find anybody willing to shoot him up there."
-- Wernher Von Braun, 1957, the day after Sputnik II was launched
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So when I get viagra spam, it will be accompanied by Google AdWords ads for viagra?
I already suggested the benefits for both Google and mozilla.org for Google to replace their IE Toolbar with an official Google branded Firefox.
Google doesn't want to support a browser they didn't write.
Google could make a version of the Google Toolbar for Firefox. Google could suggest/recommend Firefox without rebranding it, but I'm not sure what they would gain from that.
Some bug fixes that would make Google happier:
* bug 11459, option in Mozilla for mailto: links to go to a webmail service
* bug 62467, highlight all "find" results in the page
Developers are supposed to know better than to run around complaining "the sky is falling" while the people involved are wrestling with really difficult structural problems.
His 1999 article doesn't come across to me as "the sky is falling". It came across to me as a well-motivated call to action.
What's amazing is that the people involved stayed involved, while having to read this kind of crap in the first place.
His 1999 article got me involved in the Mozilla project. Since then, I've reported over 1000 bugs, including over 50 security holes, and I now run The Burning Edge. If the article got me involved, I don't see why it would have discouraged existing Mozilla volunteers.
If you mean what I think you mean by "if your machine's compromised", having a master password makes you no more secure. The attacker just has to install a keylogger to get your master password.
This is annoying indeed, but it is predictable. Any other implementation would either require micromanagement or trigger flash displaying when you don't want it.
Not really. I could make it so shift+clicking a placeholder acts like clicking all of the placeholders on the page.
Firebird 0.9 will include a migration feature. It will work with at least IE/Win and Mozilla Seamonkey, and you can probably figure out which other browsers it will work with by looking at the migration branch on bonsai.
Those are the primary mirrors, btw. When you connect to ftp.mozilla.org, you're connecting to one of those 4 or 5 mirrors.
1) No print() or echo() function. If you want to write something to the equivilent of stdout, you need to use document.write(). And if you use alert() as you're debugging something, you'll quickly get tired of boxes that pop up, I know I have.
My JavaScript Shell and Simple JavaScript development environment both include a print() function.
The shell is good for playing around with the DOM and can be used as a bookmarklet.
The simple development environment lets you test longer bits of code, but doesn't let you use the DOM, only core JavaScript features like variables, functions, objects, closures, and regular expressions. Leonard Lin is using it to teach some students JavaScript as their first language.
That's what I thought you meant. And I meant that you're wrong.
That's my point, sort of. The parent to my post seemed to be agreeing with many usage commentators (but disagreeing with most Americans) that "naseous" is supposed to mean "nauseating" rather than "nauseated".
nauseated|nauseous
;)
You mean nauseous|nauseating, right?
I love my American Heritage Dictionary of English Usage. It gives histories of the controveries and actual usage patterns, and its editors have found a good balance between not disagreeing with traditional usage commentators and practicality.
There's a typo in the link to your web page. It should be www, not ww.
As long as your income is high enough to outweigh the risk, and you can get a "real job" quickly if you have to, I don't see anything your with depending on search engine ranks for a living.
If I understand correctly, you're using Google AdSense to display advertisers' AdWords on your site.
Why are the advertisers e-mailing you? Are they just randomly thanking you, or are they breaking Google's ToS by asking to pay you directly for ads instead of going through Google?
If you type "mailto:" into Start,Run, which program comes up?
mailto URLs are not handled properly
I can't think of anything wrong with the way Firebird handles mailto URLs. Firebird certainly handles them better than Mozilla Navigator -- Firebird opens them in your default mail program, while Mozilla Navigator always opens them in Mozilla Mail.
who blindly click links without checking their content
What's wrong with blindly clicking links? I can only think of a few situtations where it makes sense to check the URL of a link, like when you get an e-mail "from eBay" and want to make sure its links actually take you to eBay.
(1) Checkbox to disable "kiosk mode" from EVER happening!
(2) Checkbox to disable pop-up windows (or prompt user per pop-up) as opposed to disabling Javascript altogether.
Why should those even be options?
What's your point? That the link contains escaped characters?
Why does Microsoft want to own MikeRoweSoft.com? Why didn't they just ask Mike to change MikeRoweSoft.com to a page saying "MikeRoweSoft.com has been renamed/moved to _MikeRoweForums.com_ to avoid confusion with the _Microsoft Corporation_."?
is cut off.
Oooh! You must have upset some neocon moderators.
If you're commenting on the "troll" moderation, then you're probably right. But I also got a lot of "interesting" moderations, which indicates that I pleased some democratic moderators. I guess that's what happens when you post something political.
we already know what George Bush's desktop looks like.
Matrix-style "bullet-time" videos of exploiting fruit.
"With existing IRBM hardware we could put a man into orbit in a year. But don't ask me how we'd get him back. If a man would be ready to sacrifice his life by being fired into orbit it would answer some of the questions about space flight, but even if one volunteered we probably couldn't find anybody willing to shoot him up there."
-- Wernher Von Braun, 1957, the day after Sputnik II was launched