Pleeeaaaase, Bill, be so kind and donate few millions to IE development! You will not even notice it! I'm loosing pretty big money (big is sometimes not as big as you might think) when trying to make pages to work with IE! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
I know. But isn't now the proper time to do what Mozilla did? They split the Mozilla Suit into parts because the similar problem... I think that every Web developer is suffering from Windows this way (not only Win developers, but really EVERY deveoper!).
I don't really care if the IE is a component or not. I don't see any reason why should I break my web site compatibility with standards to be compatible with browser that tries to be compatible with Windows because it is A WIN COMPONENT.
As a web developer I know that IE is having difficulties to catch up on other browsers. It hurts me, it hurts you, it hurts everybody and at the end it hurts Microsoft as well.
I don't care about any Microsoft's internal reasons. I judge the final product. I know, it could be better. Microsoft can make it better BROWSER!
It looks like it takes ages to implement few useful features in IE. The same features that are many times already available for the same or competing browsers as third-party plugging or extension that are developed by one or very few geeks.
Is it that Microsoft is short of geeks? Is it so complex software that third-party developers are more effective and progressive then in-house developers?!
Anyway, why are the browsers evolving so slowly? Look where is the 3D gaming industry! Look what progress they did. And now look what progress we (browser vendors) did on the WWW! I don't think that there is less money on the web then in the gaming industry...
So why is it? (Is the main reason the insufficient cooperation ? Don't they see that competition in this area instead of cooperation hurts everybody? Look where IE ended up with thier individual and aggresive stance.)
> From a purely business point of view, what Google is doing is not right.
It would be true only if the business will suffer from such as decission. If this bad (from moral point of view) decission is "punished" only by this kind of discussion threds then Google is doing it right (from the business side of view).
We are the poeple who decide if the Google was right or was not. If Google looses its SE users for a while then they may reconsider this decission as wrong (business).
If you know that YOU are the one who decides. What would you do?
I'm personally going to not use Google Search Engine for one week from now. And you?
Do not forget that both Google and Gates speak from the position of a BUSINESSMAN! Not as a human rights activists, citizen or politician!
So "There was no reason for technology companies not to do business in China." does not mean that It was right" but it does mean "There was no better option to earn money"...
The Right Thing can be different when viewed from different angles.
XHTML2.0 is nice. I would accept it immediately! But sadly this is not me and this is not you who decides what gets accepted... I'm a web developer and I'm supposed to do the best for my clients. My clients expect me to do the work in the way that the biggest audience available will be able to use it...
I will not "accept" the XHTML2.0 as long as I'm not sure that my clients can loose any of potential visitors/customers.
The right question should go to the major browser providers: "Hey, browser creators, when do YOU and YOUR COMPANIES accept the XHTML2.0?"
(I'm afraid that it is too many years ahead to be worried about:-( )
Sure there will be google spybar ehmm toolbar installed. It's main purpose is, of course, to assist you on spying the spyware and spying on things the spyware is spying on... but it does not mean that google is spying on you!
What else do I need to have installed? In old days there were important only web browser (or kind of). Today we *ultimately* need:
-) Browser + (patches for the browser, of course) -) Antivirus -) Anti-spy-ware -) Anti-ad-ware -) Firewalls -) Security Certificates -) Pop-up blockers...
It looks like this list tends to grow. Can you imagine the future browser installations? 1xDVD for the browser and 9xDVDs with necessary companions to feel safe on the net.
Sure... but must the OS community still live on the edge? Why it should be? I feel a substantial difference between (intellectual) Warez and OSS. Nobody should try to blur the edges. It hurts the OS community.
Who is afraid cannot be free. (I mean that you should not be afraid of legal law suits - I don't mean that you should not be afraid to steal...)
I think that Microsoft fights for customers. Customers will not migrate to OSS as long as there is any *potential* risk of legal law suits. That why the price. The price will NOT prevent leaking the information. The price that was not paid will scare customers...
That why the price will be exactly as high as "n + 1" where "n" is the amount of money the community is willing to pay.
It is a very good point about the training people... I'm the core developer for four years for one American company that develops very successful enterprise CMS. It is VERY powerful and fully configurable solution that has everything the CMS should have: eCommerce, CRM, CMS, RMS, XForms,... But the strength is also the weakness.
Have you ever dealt with customers that want to buy a dog but they choose to buy an elephant because it looked bigger and smarter and stronger? I did. At the result (if I use the same words) they tend to use the elephant as the dog...
I read some calls for "OSS Enterprise CMS" above. I think that it sounds great but the real life and real needs are simply different. Believe me - sometimes the "ENTERPRISE" (bells and whistles comes here) solution disappoints the customers more then "low-end" solution.
Funny. I'm working on the feature of your dreams last two weeks... There will be even more! You can upload the file (for now only XML/HTML docs) into the tree using the FileManager and it's there! You can browser the folder server://modules and simply upload the module file and it will get installed automaticly. Remove one file representing the module and... the whole module gets uninstalled!:-)
Simply I'm working on the FileManger of your dreams where every folder have it's own hooks so different contextual operations can be triggered by the same actions... Removing the file from the folder with content docs will remove it from CMS, removing the file from modules will uninstall it from the kernel, removing the file from users folder will remove the user account... anythink you can imagine...:-) (all the file structures are pure virtual structures... but who will notice it? It looks so natural and it works...;-)
Hm. Shame It isn't OSS... (anyway this feature will be revealed only partally in the first release).
Emacs is good, but I didn't found the sufficient support of keystrokes like C-x C-e in modern browsers. That's why I didn't choose the Emacs for the front-end for my newest and brightest CMS.;-)
But I hope that they will evolve to be at least as supportive for ten-strokes-in-one commands as the Emacs was twenty years ago...;-)) I foreseen that the Web 4.0 will support all Emacs' fundamentals at least in "transitional" mode for the beginning. Refer to W3C eXHTML (Emacs-eXtensibleHyperTextMuleLisp) draft on http://www.w3c.org/ .
It makes me curious even more... But from now on they should be taking care of what they say... they will never know who has the headphones connected to iPod and whose headphones are connected to the iPod w/ "IBM Babelfish Inside" logo sticked on...:-)
( s/buty/buy/ => Sorry, I'm sometimes fighting with my notebook's keyboard...)
I cannot wait when I buty the first eBabelfish gadget that I will put in my ear so I can understand spoken language of my russian colegues...;-):-) I hope that someobody will not consider it as "important technology for the national security" and will not restrict it by any mean...
(I'm sure that this eBabelfish is already installed - not in my ear - but on the telecommunication centers...)
They try to look as extra large and stable company for investors - huge investment harbour that cannot be shaked...
On the other hand they want to looks like a symphatic small, flexible and progressive company that has an unlimited possibilities for growth...:-) Sweet friend's garage company from my neighborhood...
I hope they spent their millions on the AdSense advertisement... I think that Google is able to serve "We Are Big" ads to investors and "We Are Small and Sweet" to potential Windows users...:-)
I'm from Europe... And maybe if Europe is not paying then all american customers will gain the speed with "-10" koeficient;-)
It sounds very silly to me. It looks like the idea that shopping centers should pay to cabs or mass transit because people are using cabs and busses to get into stores... Sure, customers will have cheaper tickets and cheaper cabs but... does it make a sense?
Yes, I found the article to contain the same info as many other tutorials. So I think that the object itself (and the article) is not as interesting to me.
Always the interesting part about this javascript object is its usage to solve particular problems...
But for the beginners it is very nice article to read. I can recommend. There were no such as nice articles available when I was building the communication library and trying to use XMLHTTPRequest for the first time in my XUL project.
And what if the company owns your comp? (Empolyer)
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Perfect tools for watching behavior of your emplyees? Isn't it?
"Hello John, I noticed that you read the slashdot and the window with the slashdot page has a focus about 3hours average every day. You are fired.";-)
Internet was free and safe place for meetings in cyber space... unless politicians noticed that it is full of terrorists and uncontrollable services that needs to be controlled and programmatically improved for the good of mankind (and against the will of mankind).
I'm reading how good the Cell is... over and over. They show some charts, some schemes, then make statements about advantages. Isn't it just marketing buzz?
If it is so cool why the Apple moved to Intel and not to Cell? Maybe it is a leap forward but maybe it is not. I'll wait and judge when I can put hands on it.
Slashdot Mirror
But it looks like Microsoft is unable to manage swarms of Windows fans
so they decided to make a "WinSelection":
Microsoft Certification Test:
1) Are you a windows hobbyist? [YES: 1 point, NO: 0 points]
2) Do you have a planty of cash? [YES: 2 point, NO: 0 points]
Test results:
0-1 points - useless windows community member (possible linux hacker)
2-3 points - usefull windows community member
Pleeeaaaase, Bill, be so kind and donate few millions to IE development! You will not even notice it! I'm loosing pretty big money (big is sometimes not as big as you might think) when trying to make pages to work with IE! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
I know. But isn't now the proper time to do what Mozilla did? They split the Mozilla Suit into parts because the similar problem... I think that every Web developer is suffering from Windows this way (not only Win developers, but really EVERY deveoper!).
I don't really care if the IE is a component or not. I don't see any reason why should I break my web site compatibility with standards to be compatible with browser that tries to be compatible with Windows because it is A WIN COMPONENT.
As a web developer I know that IE is having difficulties to catch up on other browsers. It hurts me, it hurts you, it hurts everybody and at the end it hurts Microsoft as well.
I don't care about any Microsoft's internal reasons. I judge the final product. I know, it could be better. Microsoft can make it better BROWSER!
It looks like it takes ages to implement few useful features in IE. The same features that are many times already available for the same or competing browsers as third-party plugging or extension that are developed by one or very few geeks.
Is it that Microsoft is short of geeks? Is it so complex software that third-party developers are more effective and progressive then in-house developers?!
Anyway, why are the browsers evolving so slowly? Look where is the 3D gaming industry! Look what progress they did. And now look what progress we (browser vendors) did on the WWW! I don't think that there is less money on the web then in the gaming industry...
So why is it?
(Is the main reason the insufficient cooperation ? Don't they see that competition in this area instead of cooperation hurts everybody? Look where IE ended up with thier individual and aggresive stance.)
> From a purely business point of view, what Google is doing is not right.
It would be true only if the business will suffer from such as decission. If this bad (from moral point of view) decission is "punished" only by this kind of discussion threds then Google is doing it right (from the business side of view).
We are the poeple who decide if the Google was right or was not. If Google looses its SE users for a while then they may reconsider this decission as wrong (business).
If you know that YOU are the one who decides. What would you do?
I'm personally going to not use Google Search Engine for one week from now. And you?
Do not forget that both Google and Gates speak from the position of a BUSINESSMAN! Not as a human rights activists, citizen or politician!
So "There was no reason for technology companies not to do business in China." does not mean that It was right" but it does mean "There was no better option to earn money"...
The Right Thing can be different when viewed from different angles.
" my clients can not loose clients " - of course. :-)
XHTML2.0 is nice. I would accept it immediately! But sadly this is not me and this is not you who decides what gets accepted... I'm a web developer and I'm supposed to do the best for my clients. My clients expect me to do the work in the way that the biggest audience available will be able to use it...
:-( )
I will not "accept" the XHTML2.0 as long as I'm not sure that my clients can loose any of potential visitors/customers.
The right question should go to the major browser providers:
"Hey, browser creators, when do YOU and YOUR COMPANIES accept the XHTML2.0?"
(I'm afraid that it is too many years ahead to be worried about
Sure there will be google spybar ehmm toolbar installed. It's main purpose is, of course, to assist you on spying the spyware and spying on things the spyware is spying on... but it does not mean that google is spying on you!
...
What else do I need to have installed? In old days there were important only web browser (or kind of). Today we *ultimately* need:
-) Browser + (patches for the browser, of course)
-) Antivirus
-) Anti-spy-ware
-) Anti-ad-ware
-) Firewalls
-) Security Certificates
-) Pop-up blockers
It looks like this list tends to grow. Can you imagine the future browser installations? 1xDVD for the browser and 9xDVDs with necessary companions to feel safe on the net.
The most dangerous animal is an e-man.
Sure... but must the OS community still live on the edge? Why it should be? I feel a substantial difference between (intellectual) Warez and OSS. Nobody should try to blur the edges. It hurts the OS community.
Who is afraid cannot be free. (I mean that you should not be afraid of legal law suits - I don't mean that you should not be afraid to steal...)
I think that Microsoft fights for customers. Customers will not migrate to OSS as long as there is any *potential* risk of legal law suits. That why the price. The price will NOT prevent leaking the information. The price that was not paid will scare customers...
That why the price will be exactly as high as "n + 1" where "n" is the amount of money the community is willing to pay.
I'm afraid that the price will be big enought to put OSS development out of game in majority of cases. :-(
It is a very good point about the training people... I'm the core developer for four years for one American company that develops very successful enterprise CMS. It is VERY powerful and fully configurable solution that has everything the CMS should have: eCommerce, CRM, CMS, RMS, XForms, ... But the strength is also the weakness.
Have you ever dealt with customers that want to buy a dog but they choose to buy an elephant because it looked bigger and smarter and stronger? I did. At the result (if I use the same words) they tend to use the elephant as the dog...
I read some calls for "OSS Enterprise CMS" above. I think that it sounds great but the real life and real needs are simply different. Believe me - sometimes the "ENTERPRISE" (bells and whistles comes here) solution disappoints the customers more then "low-end" solution.
Funny. I'm working on the feature of your dreams last two weeks... There will be even more! You can upload the file (for now only XML/HTML docs) into the tree using the FileManager and it's there! You can browser the folder server://modules and simply upload the module file and it will get installed automaticly. Remove one file representing the module and... the whole module gets uninstalled! :-)
:-) (all the file structures are pure virtual structures... but who will notice it? It looks so natural and it works... ;-)
Simply I'm working on the FileManger of your dreams where every folder have it's own hooks so different contextual operations can be triggered by the same actions... Removing the file from the folder with content docs will remove it from CMS, removing the file from modules will uninstall it from the kernel, removing the file from users folder will remove the user account... anythink you can imagine...
Hm. Shame It isn't OSS... (anyway this feature will be revealed only partally in the first release).
I usually write new CMS in my old CMS (Emacs).
;-)
;-)) I foreseen that the Web 4.0 will support all Emacs' fundamentals at least in "transitional" mode for the beginning. Refer to W3C eXHTML (Emacs-eXtensibleHyperTextMuleLisp) draft on http://www.w3c.org/ .
Emacs is good, but I didn't found the sufficient support of keystrokes like C-x C-e in modern browsers. That's why I didn't choose the Emacs for the front-end for my newest and brightest CMS.
But I hope that they will evolve to be at least as supportive for ten-strokes-in-one commands as the Emacs was twenty years ago...
It makes me curious even more... But from now on they should be taking care of what they say... they will never know who has the headphones connected to iPod and whose headphones are connected to the iPod w/ "IBM Babelfish Inside" logo sticked on... :-)
( s/buty/buy/ => Sorry, I'm sometimes fighting with my notebook's keyboard...)
I cannot wait when I buty the first eBabelfish gadget that I will put in my ear so I can understand spoken language of my russian colegues... ;-) :-) I hope that someobody will not consider it as "important technology for the national security" and will not restrict it by any mean...
(I'm sure that this eBabelfish is already installed - not in my ear - but on the telecommunication centers...)
They try to look as extra large and stable company for investors - huge investment harbour that cannot be shaked...
:-) Sweet friend's garage company from my neighborhood...
:-)
On the other hand they want to looks like a symphatic small, flexible and progressive company that has an unlimited possibilities for growth...
I hope they spent their millions on the AdSense advertisement... I think that Google is able to serve "We Are Big" ads to investors and "We Are Small and Sweet" to potential Windows users...
Probably they hired a good PR experts that find out (after spending few hundrets K bugs) that people tend te be scared by extra large companies.
Who wants to buy a candy from Beelzebub?
I'm from Europe... And maybe if Europe is not paying then all american customers will gain the speed with "-10" koeficient ;-)
It sounds very silly to me. It looks like the idea that shopping centers should pay to cabs or mass transit because people are using cabs and busses to get into stores... Sure, customers will have cheaper tickets and cheaper cabs but... does it make a sense?
Yes, I found the article to contain the same info as many other tutorials. So I think that the object itself (and the article) is not as interesting to me.
Always the interesting part about this javascript object is its usage to solve particular problems...
But for the beginners it is very nice article to read. I can recommend. There were no such as nice articles available when I was building the communication library and trying to use XMLHTTPRequest for the first time in my XUL project.
Perfect tools for watching behavior of your emplyees? Isn't it?
;-)
"Hello John, I noticed that you read the slashdot and the window with the slashdot page has a focus about 3hours average every day. You are fired."
I can imagine that my boss installs it on my computer.
Maybe he will find out that I read slashdot too often!
I guess that such as statistics can be more verbose about employee's behavior then some proxy statistics.
Internet was free and safe place for meetings in cyber space... unless politicians noticed that it is full of terrorists and uncontrollable services that needs to be controlled and programmatically improved for the good of mankind (and against the will of mankind).
I'm reading how good the Cell is... over and over. They show some charts, some schemes, then make statements about advantages. Isn't it just marketing buzz?
If it is so cool why the Apple moved to Intel and not to Cell? Maybe it is a leap forward but maybe it is not. I'll wait and judge when I can put hands on it.
Will they inform us in the clear and visible form if they change their minds? Can they promise?