Its not only about sorting, with a database a lot more things are easier like for example, querying based on the fields. In this case, the places UI groups the history by title, web site, etc, and also providing a good search.
And SQLite is really better since its a standalone database.
If you think this is a performance improvement, its not because SQLite is not suited well for more writes, but less writes, more reads.
As an avid Yahoo! user, I never go to their home page. I've never needed it. All I use is My Yahoo!, where I can read the daily news, Slashdot, comics, get my daily horoscope, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, and what not! Its the Kick Ass aggregator I've ever seen!!
yeah unlike "Customize our G News service", where the service doesn't even recognize me (does not require login) and I'll have to go and do the same customization on every computer I use.
As you might expect, working on this involves lots of time spent meeting with lawyers about licenses and such. Obviously we have to worry about the legal stuff, but I'm also interested in hearing from other people outside the company about what you think we should do. Clearly we'll need to release the code under an open source (i.e., OSI approved) license . ..
The term "open source" essentially refers that the source is open, meaning you can see it, read it, but they're very unclear about choosing the appropriate license itself.
They can even restrict it from redistribution, which means there can't be a GNU/Solaris, etc. If Sun's intention is to attack GNU/Linux, it should be GPLed IMO.
But that would again lead to forking (which is good anyways:-) ).
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Its not only about sorting, with a database a lot more things are easier like for example, querying based on the fields. In this case, the places UI groups the history by title, web site, etc, and also providing a good search.
And SQLite is really better since its a standalone database.
If you think this is a performance improvement, its not because SQLite is not suited well for more writes, but less writes, more reads.
As an avid Yahoo! user, I never go to their home page. I've never needed it. All I use is My Yahoo!, where I can read the daily news, Slashdot, comics, get my daily horoscope, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, and what not! Its the Kick Ass aggregator I've ever seen!!
Actually they did, they were the first to implement and use AJAX. I'm not a big fan of Micro$oft, but we'll have to admit it sometimes ;-)
You'll have to compile the install system to use it ;-)
Just kidding............
Great work, guys.
yeah unlike "Customize our G News service", where the service doesn't even recognize me (does not require login) and I'll have to go and do the same customization on every computer I use.
...have their products running in Beta for years ;-)
I rarely go to Yahoo! home page, but they do have "My Yahoo!", and really, nobody has a competing product as that!
Yes, also they're planning to give you invites based on your usage. If you use the GBrowser to visit google.com a 1000 times, you get an invite ;-)
There used to be an American proverb: Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics. It came to my mind when reading this.
As you might expect, working on this involves lots of time spent meeting with lawyers about licenses and such. Obviously we have to worry about the legal stuff, but I'm also interested in hearing from other people outside the company about what you think we should do. Clearly we'll need to release the code under an open source (i.e., OSI approved) license . . .
The term "open source" essentially refers that the source is open, meaning you can see it, read it, but they're very unclear about choosing the appropriate license itself.
They can even restrict it from redistribution, which means there can't be a GNU/Solaris, etc. If Sun's intention is to attack GNU/Linux, it should be GPLed IMO.
But that would again lead to forking (which is good anyways :-) ).