Mozilla currently doesn't give web pages a way to create a form control (or something that looks like a form control) into which the user can enter HTML using Composer commands.
IE has a built-in HTML editor that afaik can be accessed only by setting the "contenteditable" attribute of a node such as a div. IE provides keyboard shortcuts but does not provide a formatting toolbar; instead, it lets scripts create buttons that do the same thing as Ctrl+B=bold, etc. Unfortunately, this includes clipboard functions. Allowing scripts to paste is bad (password leak), but allowing scripts to copy is worse (root hole with a little social engineering).
Instead of "locking out Mozilla users" you can say that you are "adding value for IE users".
Go ahead and "add value for IE users", but do it in a way that users of other browsers can still use your site. For example, if your site accepts HTML comments, you could give IE users the option of editing the comment with IE's somewhat-built-in WYSIWYG HTML editor and simply hide the WYSIWYG option from users of other browsers. This does not require you to lock out Mozilla users.
I'd like to go one step further and disable pop-up ads by default (bug 111542). However, I think we should make Mozilla's pop-up blocking more robust first. There are currently several ways around our pop-up blocking, such as auto-submitting a form that is set to submit into a new window (bug 144726). Luckily, advertisers are finding those holes for us quickly.
Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page.
That is a Mozilla error message (source) and does not come from alltheweb. Your web server is broken. http://www.kaosinc.com/jen.shtml redirects to http://www.kaosinc.com/index.shtml, which then redirects to itself. This happens regardless of where I find the link to http://www.kaosinc.com/jen.shtml, or what browser I use to load it. IE appears to just sit there, Opera bounces between various stages of trying to connect, and Netscape 4 gives up after a few redirects and displays a raw 302-found page ("The document has moved _here_") without redirecting.
Moving the mouse over the link doesn't reveal the address in the bottom bar, either, so the only way I can think of to obtain the address of the item it matches is by right-clicking and selecting 'copy link address', opening a new window and pasting it it (and having a browser that is capable of doing this), then editing the URL so only the target link text remains.
An easier way to see the URL of the link is to hold the mouse down over the link, and then move off of the link before you lift the mouse button. But I still get the infinite-redirect error message if I type your URL directly.
You can't even right-lick and open in a new window to do this. If you try, you get "about:blank" which, afaik, means they're using javascript.
If I right-click on a link from the alltheweb search results and select "open link in new window", I see http://www.alltheweb.com/go/1/H/web/http/www.kaosi nc.com/jen.shtml in the location bar and get the same error message. What version of Mozilla are you using?
And the forms seem to cut out incomplete tags even when posting in plain text, which is a bit crap.
Slashdot's names for comment modes are confusing. "Plain Old Text" is really a "do what I mean" mode: line breaks become paragraphs, but HTML tags are interpreted as HTML tags. If you don't want any tags interpreted, you have to use "Extrans" mode. Kuro5hin's names for the modes make more sense.
An image can be malicious without containing executable code. For example, the "goatse" images.
Instead of relying on an antivirus program to protect me from those images (do they even detect those images?), I use a user style sheet to make links to goatse.cx brown and crossed-out instead of blue and underlined. Here's the CSS:
The person with the cash register has coins and bills in neat piles. The person with the wallet might have his bills in a useful order, but probably has his coins in a dark pocket of his wallet.
Yes, I wish they'd add a "disable pipelining for this site" option, as for image loading and such.
I'm glad Mozilla doesn't have such an option. It would discourage users from filing bugs such as "site x doesn't work with pipelining enabled" (144442, etc), which would prevent us from ever turning pipelining on by default. It would also add to Mozilla's already cluttered prefs, and would be hard to remove once it was there.
X crashing when you enter a bogus value in gimp is a big deal, because when X crashes, you lose all the other programs you're running. X should never crash.
When Windows crashes, most slashdot posters make fun of Windows, but when X crashes, many slashdot posters and even some bugtraq posters blame an application running under X. I don't get it.
And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.
from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31 (Red Letter Edition)
Why doesn't Apple build something like Silk into Mac OS X? It seems silly to add to the Cocoa API rather than justing making it Just Work. Anti-aliasing should be a systemwide pref and that pref can only work reliably if all apps get anti-aliased text by default.
If gestures annoy the reviewer, what makes you think they won't annoy a normal user? You can reasonably say "This reviewer seems to be writing for users who won't spend an hour tweaking prefs in order to get a browser that doesn't annoy them, and I'm not that kind of user". But you're not justified in calling the review invalid.
By the way, when I tried Opera 5, I accidentally triggered a gesture while trying to activate a context menu. I had barely moved the mouse while clicking. Even though I knew I could disable gestures, that annoyed me. It also made me suspicious that there would be more annoyances like that if I continued to use Opera.
set up nick name for url's. so instead of typing the full url for slashdot I can just set the bookmark slashdot.org to equal "s". Now I can just type "s" in the url and BAM!
Mozilla has the same feature, but it's hard to find because the feature is called "custom keywords". (Opera's "nickname" isn't much more transparent.) Internet Explorer accepts the name of a bookmark in the URL bar, which is better IMO. Unfortunately, in IE this feature only works for bookmarks in the root folder, so you can't stuff the shortcut-bookmarks into a folder called "shortcuts" and still have the shortcuts work.
I'd be more interested in finding out which site they got my e-mail address from rather than seeing my IP address. Something like "We got your address when you signed up for Slashdot. Click here to stop getting spam from us or click here to change your preferences regarding what Slashdot does with your address."
The problem with yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater is that the person sitting next to you will yell "bullshit!" and everyone near you will pour coke on you for disturbing their enjoyment of the movie.
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.
Interview with Wernher von Braun, missile development specialist, after Sputnik II was launched into space by the Russian government in 1957.
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Mozilla currently doesn't give web pages a way to create a form control (or something that looks like a form control) into which the user can enter HTML using Composer commands.
IE has a built-in HTML editor that afaik can be accessed only by setting the "contenteditable" attribute of a node such as a div. IE provides keyboard shortcuts but does not provide a formatting toolbar; instead, it lets scripts create buttons that do the same thing as Ctrl+B=bold, etc. Unfortunately, this includes clipboard functions. Allowing scripts to paste is bad (password leak), but allowing scripts to copy is worse (root hole with a little social engineering).
Instead of "locking out Mozilla users" you can say that you are "adding value for IE users".
Go ahead and "add value for IE users", but do it in a way that users of other browsers can still use your site. For example, if your site accepts HTML comments, you could give IE users the option of editing the comment with IE's somewhat-built-in WYSIWYG HTML editor and simply hide the WYSIWYG option from users of other browsers. This does not require you to lock out Mozilla users.
Typing \\BogusMachineName into the Windows Run box can hang the Run box for a good fraction of a minute, at least on Windows 98 and a large network.
I'd like to go one step further and disable pop-up ads by default (bug 111542). However, I think we should make Mozilla's pop-up blocking more robust first. There are currently several ways around our pop-up blocking, such as auto-submitting a form that is set to submit into a new window (bug 144726). Luckily, advertisers are finding those holes for us quickly.
I can't belive how many people have my "Subtle mind control? why do all the HTML buttons say 'submit'" quote on their sites.
Have you seen this? Submit
Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page.
i nc.com/jen.shtml in the location bar and get the same error message. What version of Mozilla are you using?
That is a Mozilla error message (source) and does not come from alltheweb. Your web server is broken. http://www.kaosinc.com/jen.shtml redirects to http://www.kaosinc.com/index.shtml, which then redirects to itself. This happens regardless of where I find the link to http://www.kaosinc.com/jen.shtml, or what browser I use to load it. IE appears to just sit there, Opera bounces between various stages of trying to connect, and Netscape 4 gives up after a few redirects and displays a raw 302-found page ("The document has moved _here_") without redirecting.
Moving the mouse over the link doesn't reveal the address in the bottom bar, either, so the only way I can think of to obtain the address of the item it matches is by right-clicking and selecting 'copy link address', opening a new window and pasting it it (and having a browser that is capable of doing this), then editing the URL so only the target link text remains.
An easier way to see the URL of the link is to hold the mouse down over the link, and then move off of the link before you lift the mouse button. But I still get the infinite-redirect error message if I type your URL directly.
You can't even right-lick and open in a new window to do this. If you try, you get "about:blank" which, afaik, means they're using javascript.
If I right-click on a link from the alltheweb search results and select "open link in new window", I see http://www.alltheweb.com/go/1/H/web/http/www.kaos
And the forms seem to cut out incomplete tags even when posting in plain text, which is a bit crap.
Slashdot's names for comment modes are confusing. "Plain Old Text" is really a "do what I mean" mode: line breaks become paragraphs, but HTML tags are interpreted as HTML tags. If you don't want any tags interpreted, you have to use "Extrans" mode. Kuro5hin's names for the modes make more sense.
Where I'm working (large financial institution) they're starting to look into AI as a means of predicting market movement and trends.
If your AI predicts that AI is the hot field for the next few years, do you trust it?
An image can be malicious without containing executable code. For example, the "goatse" images.
Instead of relying on an antivirus program to protect me from those images (do they even detect those images?), I use a user style sheet to make links to goatse.cx brown and crossed-out instead of blue and underlined. Here's the CSS:
a[href*="goatse.cx/"]
{
text-decoration: line-through ! important;
color: brown ! important;
}
When you restart X, what happens to other graphical programs you were running?
why don't you just pay the exact amount?
The person with the cash register has coins and bills in neat piles. The person with the wallet might have his bills in a useful order, but probably has his coins in a dark pocket of his wallet.
Aren't the 89 and the 92 the same thing with different keyboard layouts?
Yes, I wish they'd add a "disable pipelining for this site" option, as for image loading and such.
I'm glad Mozilla doesn't have such an option. It would discourage users from filing bugs such as "site x doesn't work with pipelining enabled" (144442, etc), which would prevent us from ever turning pipelining on by default. It would also add to Mozilla's already cluttered prefs, and would be hard to remove once it was there.
but if you just want to complain, stick to IE.
Why not stick to Mozilla 1.0?
X crashing when you enter a bogus value in gimp is a big deal, because when X crashes, you lose all the other programs you're running. X should never crash.
When Windows crashes, most slashdot posters make fun of Windows, but when X crashes, many slashdot posters and even some bugtraq posters blame an application running under X. I don't get it.
from the praise-mammon dept.
Mozilla's about:mozilla page mentions mammon:
And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.
from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31
(Red Letter Edition)
reprinted in about:mozilla since April 2000.
Why doesn't Apple build something like Silk into Mac OS X? It seems silly to add to the Cocoa API rather than justing making it Just Work. Anti-aliasing should be a systemwide pref and that pref can only work reliably if all apps get anti-aliased text by default.
Why isn't automatic text smoothing built into Mac OS X by default?
I found it amusing a year ago. Now it's just an embarrassing bug.
Hard drives are slow. I want my files, except music and porn, to be stored in some kind of non-volatile RAM.
If gestures annoy the reviewer, what makes you think they won't annoy a normal user? You can reasonably say "This reviewer seems to be writing for users who won't spend an hour tweaking prefs in order to get a browser that doesn't annoy them, and I'm not that kind of user". But you're not justified in calling the review invalid.
By the way, when I tried Opera 5, I accidentally triggered a gesture while trying to activate a context menu. I had barely moved the mouse while clicking. Even though I knew I could disable gestures, that annoyed me. It also made me suspicious that there would be more annoyances like that if I continued to use Opera.
set up nick name for url's. so instead of typing the full url for slashdot I can just set the bookmark slashdot.org to equal "s". Now I can just type "s" in the url and BAM!
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Mozilla has the same feature, but it's hard to find because the feature is called "custom keywords". (Opera's "nickname" isn't much more transparent.) Internet Explorer accepts the name of a bookmark in the URL bar, which is better IMO. Unfortunately, in IE this feature only works for bookmarks in the root folder, so you can't stuff the shortcut-bookmarks into a folder called "shortcuts" and still have the shortcuts work.
Look under "Fast keyboard access to bookmarks" on http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/browsers.h
I'd be more interested in finding out which site they got my e-mail address from rather than seeing my IP address. Something like "We got your address when you signed up for Slashdot. Click here to stop getting spam from us or click here to change your preferences regarding what Slashdot does with your address."
The problem with yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater is that the person sitting next to you will yell "bullshit!" and everyone near you will pour coke on you for disturbing their enjoyment of the movie.
Interview with Wernher von Braun, missile development specialist, after Sputnik II was launched into space by the Russian government in 1957.
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