You did make it clear enough that you were talking about Windows Explorer and not IE, but since IE and Windows Explorer have the same autocomplete behavior on my computer (running Windows XP), I assumed it was safe to say IE instead of Windows Explorer.
[referring to Mozilla's auto-image-resize feature] it's not immediately obvious that clicking the image will expand it.
And you think IE's method is obvious? In IE, you have to hover the cursor over the image for about twice as long as it takes most tooltips to appear, just to make the button appear.
Note that slashdot is #1 and #4, but not #2 or #3.
Maybe you've visited 10 Slashdot URLs more often than you've visited stickdeath. (The global history window will tell you how many times Mozilla thinks you've visited each URL if you turn on the "visit count" column.)
Or maybe you should try typing in 's' (which will match URLs starting with http://www.s and http://s) instead of 'http://s'.
I don't understand your comment about IE showing more domains. IE shows the same URLs Mozilla shows, but IE sorts alphabetically while Mozilla sorts by visit count, so it seems to me that IE would be more likely to show too many URLs from one domain.
Your site is geared toward all kinds of people (or at least all kinds of guys), but you advertise it heavily on Slashdot, so I'm surprised you get such a high percentage of IE users.
The Midas functionality looks really exciting, particularly for "Wiki"-like tools - no more ugly customized Wiki syntax!
WhyWikiWorks claims that the lack of wysiwyg editing on wikis is important for keeping the signal-to-noise ratio high. I wonder if using non-HTML text markup helps too.
On the other hand, wysiwyg editing would be great for Slashdot -- it's hard to lower the signal-to-noise ratio here.
Please take a moment to vote for that bug in Bugzilla. ie, Moz has no confirmation on CTRL-Q for 'close browser', and it's right next to CTRL-W for 'close tab'. The bug's here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821
Mozilla has three close-stuff commands: Quit (Ctrl+Q) Close Window (Ctrl+Shift+W) Close Tab (Ctrl+W)
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5282 1 is about removing "Quit" or removing the keyboard shortcut for "Quit". I agree that "Quit" should be removed from Mozilla on non-Mac platforms.
What your parent is looking for is a confirmation dialog for "Close Window" when you have multiple tabs open. That's http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108973 .
"Make sure password is case-sensitive" is NOT good english
The exchange would make sense if the tech supporters's line was "Remember, your password is case-sensitive".
Re:Cathedrals and Nazi's use infrasound
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Or check out this [borderlands.com] page which mentions the use by nazi's
That sounds scary, but do you know why infrasound weapons haven't been used in actual battle?
Infrasound weapons seem like they'd be good terrorist weapons, because you can't tell whether you've been attacked by one or not. Once the media started reporting that terrorists are using infrasound weapons, any momentary nausea could cause people to get scared and possibly more nauseous.
The (obvious) reason for this is that I never use these addresses "in public" (web forms, online buying, etc.), for that I have my spam-collector, the Hotmail account, which do recieve a lot of these messages.
One of the major costs of spam is that people are afraid to make their addresses available, making it much harder to contact people. I think it's sad that many geeks have become so used to spam that they think anyone who posts their e-mail address on a web page is stupid. Some geeks even go as far as to blame friends for spam they get when a friend isn't as careful with the geek's address.
If they follow Apple's lead on that as well, you will have an extra USB slot on the side of the keyboard. Wonderful! It's actually less effort than inserting a floppy.
How would that work? My computer box is directly to the left of my keyboard, and my mousepad is directly to the right.
I have a Dell Dimension 4400 on my desk. The front panel has a headphone port and two USB ports. While these ports are more convenient than ports on the back of the computer, they're not nearly as convenient as they could be.
It's hard to plug headphones into the front for four reasons:
* I have to flip up a thing with the Dell logo on it to access the ports. * The ports are at a strange diagonal angle. The holes stick down out out, so you have to attack them from below. * I can't see the port without lowering my head under the desk. (This would be even worse if the computer were on the ground.) * There's a depressed ring just around the port. The headphone plug gets stuck in the ring if I try to plug it in "by feel" (push the plug against the surface, and move it around the surface until I feel it starting to go in).
USB has additional disadvantages that make it less than ideal for plugging in and taking out reguarly:
* It's not round like a headphone plug. (This is understandable, because it would be tricky to make a round plug with a bunch of "pins".) * It's not symmetrical under 180-degree rotation. * From most angles, the plug looks symmetrical under 180-degree rotation. Only the inside is not symmetrical. * In poor lighting, you can't see the orientation of the USB hole. * USB holes are often vertical, unlike floppy drives, which are usually horizontal. It's easier to remember which side goes on top than which side goes on the left.
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You did make it clear enough that you were talking about Windows Explorer and not IE, but since IE and Windows Explorer have the same autocomplete behavior on my computer (running Windows XP), I assumed it was safe to say IE instead of Windows Explorer.
Do you mean that fewer than 0.1% of your external referrers are from Slashdot? Where do you get most of your traffic?
[referring to Mozilla's auto-image-resize feature] it's not immediately obvious that clicking the image will expand it.
And you think IE's method is obvious? In IE, you have to hover the cursor over the image for about twice as long as it takes most tooltips to appear, just to make the button appear.
Unfortunately, that also makes it so clicking an image no longer resizes it to fit in the window. I couldn't find a bug on it, so I filed 197263.
If I type 's' into Mozilla's address bar, the first six URLs listed are:
l ine.com/ m /
http://slashdot.org/
http://www.smallstorieson
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/
http://slashdot.org/users.pl
http://sexocean.co
http://www.savekaryn.com/
Note that slashdot is #1 and #4, but not #2 or #3.
Maybe you've visited 10 Slashdot URLs more often than you've visited stickdeath. (The global history window will tell you how many times Mozilla thinks you've visited each URL if you turn on the "visit count" column.)
Or maybe you should try typing in 's' (which will match URLs starting with http://www.s and http://s) instead of 'http://s'.
I don't understand your comment about IE showing more domains. IE shows the same URLs Mozilla shows, but IE sorts alphabetically while Mozilla sorts by visit count, so it seems to me that IE would be more likely to show too many URLs from one domain.
Your site is geared toward all kinds of people (or at least all kinds of guys), but you advertise it heavily on Slashdot, so I'm surprised you get such a high percentage of IE users.
The Midas functionality looks really exciting, particularly for "Wiki"-like tools - no more ugly customized Wiki syntax!
WhyWikiWorks claims that the lack of wysiwyg editing on wikis is important for keeping the signal-to-noise ratio high. I wonder if using non-HTML text markup helps too.
On the other hand, wysiwyg editing would be great for Slashdot -- it's hard to lower the signal-to-noise ratio here.
MSIE does fine with non-transparent PNGs, at least on my computer.
Please take a moment to vote for that bug in Bugzilla. ie, Moz has no confirmation on CTRL-Q for 'close browser', and it's right next to CTRL-W for 'close tab'. The bug's here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821
2 1 is about removing "Quit" or removing the keyboard shortcut for "Quit". I agree that "Quit" should be removed from Mozilla on non-Mac platforms.
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Mozilla has three close-stuff commands:
Quit (Ctrl+Q)
Close Window (Ctrl+Shift+W)
Close Tab (Ctrl+W)
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528
What your parent is looking for is a confirmation dialog for "Close Window" when you have multiple tabs open. That's http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10897
Isn't canning part of the process of making SPAM(tm)?
"ICQ" was clever. "URU" is not.
Slashdot uses the word "ostensibly" in a headline.
Wow, that's great. I wish I could add Anonymous Cowards to my friends list.
Yeah, Stars! is great :) I just wish the developers would finish the mostly-written sequel called "Supernova".
Can I have the list, too? I work for a Pennsylvania ISP called... umm...
Pervs will get it anyway. They are insidious that way.
How does getting child porn despite difficulty make people who like child porn "insidious"?
"Make sure password is case-sensitive" is NOT good english
The exchange would make sense if the tech supporters's line was "Remember, your password is case-sensitive".
Or check out this [borderlands.com] page which mentions the use by nazi's
That sounds scary, but do you know why infrasound weapons haven't been used in actual battle?
Infrasound weapons seem like they'd be good terrorist weapons, because you can't tell whether you've been attacked by one or not. Once the media started reporting that terrorists are using infrasound weapons, any momentary nausea could cause people to get scared and possibly more nauseous.
My apologies as I forget who to credit for this
http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/
You can also use | (pipe) in place of OR.
The (obvious) reason for this is that I never use these addresses "in public" (web forms, online buying, etc.), for that I have my spam-collector, the Hotmail account, which do recieve a lot of these messages.
One of the major costs of spam is that people are afraid to make their addresses available, making it much harder to contact people. I think it's sad that many geeks have become so used to spam that they think anyone who posts their e-mail address on a web page is stupid. Some geeks even go as far as to blame friends for spam they get when a friend isn't as careful with the geek's address.
I like the Segway as much as the next geek, but is it accurate to say that it was mass-produced?
and it takes my months-old floppy drive about one second to determine that it does not have a disk in it. Why?
I removed a: from the boot order in my BIOS soon after buying this computer.
If they follow Apple's lead on that as well, you will have an extra USB slot on the side of the keyboard. Wonderful! It's actually less effort than inserting a floppy.
How would that work? My computer box is directly to the left of my keyboard, and my mousepad is directly to the right.
I have a Dell Dimension 4400 on my desk. The front panel has a headphone port and two USB ports. While these ports are more convenient than ports on the back of the computer, they're not nearly as convenient as they could be.
It's hard to plug headphones into the front for four reasons:
* I have to flip up a thing with the Dell logo on it to access the ports.
* The ports are at a strange diagonal angle. The holes stick down out out, so you have to attack them from below.
* I can't see the port without lowering my head under the desk. (This would be even worse if the computer were on the ground.)
* There's a depressed ring just around the port. The headphone plug gets stuck in the ring if I try to plug it in "by feel" (push the plug against the surface, and move it around the surface until I feel it starting to go in).
USB has additional disadvantages that make it less than ideal for plugging in and taking out reguarly:
* It's not round like a headphone plug. (This is understandable, because it would be tricky to make a round plug with a bunch of "pins".)
* It's not symmetrical under 180-degree rotation.
* From most angles, the plug looks symmetrical under 180-degree rotation. Only the inside is not symmetrical.
* In poor lighting, you can't see the orientation of the USB hole.
* USB holes are often vertical, unlike floppy drives, which are usually horizontal. It's easier to remember which side goes on top than which side goes on the left.