You guys have missed the best part of the site -- the menu link on the left side of the page: http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.html which creates (incredibly believable) stories to post to/.
If you're interested in JS toolkits... (Dojo, etc)
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Open Source AJAX toolkits
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· Score: 2, Interesting
...make sure you check out qooxdoo.
Its not the best known, but its one of the most promising toolkits in [very] active development. I've been involved (sort of -- following the mailing list) and its open source & very slick.
The 0.6 release is expected in the next day or so, and is a big jump over 0.5. The only area that is still a bit weak is the documentation, but there is a good group of developers working actively on getting that properly sorted for the next release.
When I first started trying to make my projects W3C compliant, it drove me nuts! Either I could get things compliant or I could get them to look right (in modern browsers), but almost never both at the same time. I found it incredibly frustrating and a huge waste of time (css definately has that *designed by commitee* feeling! How about a way to *vertically* align a child in a box???!!!).
But you know what happened over the course of the last several years? I've learned how to build sites that are both compliant and still render correctly (yes, even in IE) without using any hacks (hacks are a guarentee that your site will stop working someday soon -> wait for IE 7 to hit the shores!).
It wasn't easy to achieve, and a lot of people will never get there, but it is possible with some time & effort.
So keep trying to make your sites compliant, after a while I think you'll find that you instincitvely build sites that work.
I've been using Windows for a long, long, long time, and to be honest with you, as soon as OSX will let me run my windows apps via virtualisation, then my next computer will be a Mac. 100%.
The software investment is the only reason that I haven't left the *Windoze* experience in the dust years ago. Being able to slowly migrate software to a new system would be the killer app for me.
The Canadian national park was fantastic, until that darn grizzly smelled granny's left-over thanksgiving day turkey in the back seat! Fortunately my girl and I had just returned to the car, so we were in a good position to make an escape, after that big bear had smashed the car's rear window...
...so I fired up the engine, jammed the stick into first gear, and floored the accelerator.
Oh damn! We're on a park road with a 10mph speed limit!
Red Hat Linux -> Check
Mac OSX -> Check
Windows XP -> Very Friendly (if you include the above two, the Billy G. will be foreced to play too.) Check
Wouldn't the best solution be to hand out a couple of DVDs with each of these laptops, that carried ALL of these OS's?
Let the kids try/play with all of them. Now that seems like an education to me.
Bla, bla, bla -- hype, hype, hype. Sell more media
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A Flu Pandemic?
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Sure a pandamie is coming. Nothing new here. Always has been, always will be.
American/Swiss pharma corps are going to make billions out of this hype -- good biz, to hell with the costs to your average Joe.
I believe there's something like 60 million people a year who die from Malaria, yet when was the last time you heard about that in the news? Aids has to be up there too...
There's no money to be made from poor people dying, hence its not *News* worthy. Millions of rich people dying though, is a potential gold mine! Hold the presses!!!! Get me on the line to our advertisers!!
For those of you complaining about how JS suffers from various browsers inconsistencies and bugs, and how it should have a [hard-to-build] framework that handles all this, take a look at the following:
Haven't seen any comments from Freehand users here...
I made the switch from (a basically unusable) Adobe Illustrator 88 to Freehand 3.0 way back in the dawn of mainstream computer graphics time. In the mid-nineties, Freehand rocked and Illustrator lagged behind. Then Freehand got sucked up by Macromedia, and went from being a clean, slick drawing app, to a buggy piece of UI bloated shit.
I've spent thousands of hours working in Freehand over the last 12 or so years, but its current state and looming demise at the hands of Adobe (I like Photoshop, but not much else from Adobe), means that I've been looking around for a solid replacement for Freehand -- dreading having to move to Illustrator, as I find it fairly twisted as well as very expensive (wonder what upgrade path Adobe will offer me from Ill 88 to Ill CS2?? : ) I've also tried apps like Inkscape (nice start, but still quite a ways to go). CorelDraw falls into that crappy Windows software category for me (sorry to any CD lovers here!)
I'm definately going to check out Xara. Fingers crossed.
In/export is really important -- like other posters have mentioned, there are lots of good tools out there, for different tasks!
Another area I don't see a lot of mention about is printing. If a graphic designer's service bureau doesn't support an app, then I don't see much chance of them switching (I don't do that much print work anymore, so its not as big an issue for me).
Let's hope that Xara will become a credible alternative to Illustrator. I for one am hoping like hell that they (or someone else) make it.
The research purpose of the research is ostensibly to produce research...
Wow!
Com'on guys -- I know the web/email is the place for horrid writing, but 2 seconds from one of the/. editors would stop this kind of textual diarrhea from making it on the front page (After the front page of/., all is fair game. I kind of like the mangled english on the individual posts -- entertainment!).
I for one will pay a premium to buy an Apple box, as long as it will run my Windows apps.
why?
Two simple reasons --
I'd give my left 'nad to ditch Windows (why should I have to reformat/reinstall every couple of months, just so I can do things like *delete* a 2kb text file in under a minute???) and have a slick OSX machine.
I can't afford to repurchase all of the software I currently own for W'doze. I'd love to phase it over to OSX versions slowly, but couldn't handle an instant changover hit.
I've got my fingers crossed that OSX becomes a power player (and with what Redmond has in the pipes, its looking more like its got a chance).
...People look to Microsoft for brand name recognition and "trust." (I hear you laughing, but think like a consumer, not like a tech person.)
Sooner or later one of the highly successful viruses will really do something nasty to all those trusting Win users (both Joe Beer Drinker and greedy Corporations) -- watch how quick that trust would turn into the software version of road-rage...
Although I don't really believe it'll happen, here's hoping that Steve J decides to give his old arch enemy a real run for all his billions:)
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...because we all know that Apple is going out of business in the next three months -- it won't even be able to release the snazzy iPhone in June.
I'd put my money on Dell buying out Apple's assets and renaming the iPhone to the *Dell DJ Inspiron 1250 Phone Thing [tm]*
Big business not raping & pillaging?
Where's the catch???
Take a look at qooxdoo.org - a very slick framework that irons out the DOM hassles of different browsers for us developers.
The problem with this system is that it could only ever work in the good 'ol USA -- the only country where people produce enough used fry-vat oil!
(by the way, they've been doing exactly this for years in other places, like Germany...)
You guys have missed the best part of the site -- the menu link on the left side of the page: http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.html which creates (incredibly believable) stories to post to /.
...um, what's a browser???
...make sure you check out qooxdoo.
Its not the best known, but its one of the most promising toolkits in [very] active development. I've been involved (sort of -- following the mailing list) and its open source & very slick.
http://www.qooxdoo.org//
The 0.6 release is expected in the next day or so, and is a big jump over 0.5. The only area that is still a bit weak is the documentation, but there is a good group of developers working actively on getting that properly sorted for the next release.
Actually, heart disease is just the effect.
The *cause* of heart disease in the UK & US is actually fudge brownies!
(nobody seems to care much about getting the f**king fat masses off of their fat asses -- the only real cure to the problem).
When I first started trying to make my projects W3C compliant, it drove me nuts! Either I could get things compliant or I could get them to look right (in modern browsers), but almost never both at the same time. I found it incredibly frustrating and a huge waste of time (css definately has that *designed by commitee* feeling! How about a way to *vertically* align a child in a box???!!!).
But you know what happened over the course of the last several years? I've learned how to build sites that are both compliant and still render correctly (yes, even in IE) without using any hacks (hacks are a guarentee that your site will stop working someday soon -> wait for IE 7 to hit the shores!).
It wasn't easy to achieve, and a lot of people will never get there, but it is possible with some time & effort.
So keep trying to make your sites compliant, after a while I think you'll find that you instincitvely build sites that work.
I've been using Windows for a long, long, long time, and to be honest with you, as soon as OSX will let me run my windows apps via virtualisation, then my next computer will be a Mac. 100%.
The software investment is the only reason that I haven't left the *Windoze* experience in the dust years ago. Being able to slowly migrate software to a new system would be the killer app for me.
Who'd have thought that Utah would be out in front on this one! Wierd world...
Better yet, QooxDoo. Best I come across so far, even though its still in its early stages...
http://qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de/
...but I've just never quite gotten around to it.
The Canadian national park was fantastic, until that darn grizzly smelled granny's left-over thanksgiving day turkey in the back seat! Fortunately my girl and I had just returned to the car, so we were in a good position to make an escape, after that big bear had smashed the car's rear window...
...so I fired up the engine, jammed the stick into first gear, and floored the accelerator.
Oh damn! We're on a park road with a 10mph speed limit!
Ahhhhhhh! Munch, Crunch...
That's because its using a PowerPC chip -- different crash color.
Red Hat Linux -> Check
Mac OSX -> Check
Windows XP -> Very Friendly (if you include the above two, the Billy G. will be foreced to play too.) Check
Wouldn't the best solution be to hand out a couple of DVDs with each of these laptops, that carried ALL of these OS's?
Let the kids try/play with all of them. Now that seems like an education to me.
Sure a pandamie is coming. Nothing new here. Always has been, always will be.
American/Swiss pharma corps are going to make billions out of this hype -- good biz, to hell with the costs to your average Joe.
I believe there's something like 60 million people a year who die from Malaria, yet when was the last time you heard about that in the news? Aids has to be up there too...
There's no money to be made from poor people dying, hence its not *News* worthy. Millions of rich people dying though, is a potential gold mine! Hold the presses!!!! Get me on the line to our advertisers!!
For those of you complaining about how JS suffers from various browsers inconsistencies and bugs, and how it should have a [hard-to-build] framework that handles all this, take a look at the following:
t /user/Window_2.html
/. the other day, and was quite impressed -- even if it still has a ways to go before it hits prime time).
http://qooxdoo.oss.schlund.de/demo/dev/public/tes
(I discovered this through
I'm just finishing a project where QooxDoo (when its a bit more finished) would have been the cat's ass.
Haven't seen any comments from Freehand users here...
I made the switch from (a basically unusable) Adobe Illustrator 88 to Freehand 3.0 way back in the dawn of mainstream computer graphics time. In the mid-nineties, Freehand rocked and Illustrator lagged behind. Then Freehand got sucked up by Macromedia, and went from being a clean, slick drawing app, to a buggy piece of UI bloated shit.
I've spent thousands of hours working in Freehand over the last 12 or so years, but its current state and looming demise at the hands of Adobe (I like Photoshop, but not much else from Adobe), means that I've been looking around for a solid replacement for Freehand -- dreading having to move to Illustrator, as I find it fairly twisted as well as very expensive (wonder what upgrade path Adobe will offer me from Ill 88 to Ill CS2?? : ) I've also tried apps like Inkscape (nice start, but still quite a ways to go). CorelDraw falls into that crappy Windows software category for me (sorry to any CD lovers here!)
I'm definately going to check out Xara. Fingers crossed.
In/export is really important -- like other posters have mentioned, there are lots of good tools out there, for different tasks!
Another area I don't see a lot of mention about is printing. If a graphic designer's service bureau doesn't support an app, then I don't see much chance of them switching (I don't do that much print work anymore, so its not as big an issue for me).
Let's hope that Xara will become a credible alternative to Illustrator. I for one am hoping like hell that they (or someone else) make it.
Would you guys look at the quality of the spelling in these comments!
/. there for a second...
Thought I was in
The research purpose of the research is ostensibly to produce research...
Wow!
Com'on guys -- I know the web/email is the place for horrid writing, but 2 seconds from one of the
I'd like to live there for the *very* hot women -- fast internet isn't going to make me move anywhere!
why?
Two simple reasons --
I'd love to phase it over to OSX versions slowly, but couldn't handle an instant changover hit.
I've got my fingers crossed that OSX becomes a power player (and with what Redmond has in the pipes, its looking more like its got a chance).
Sooner or later one of the highly successful viruses will really do something nasty to all those trusting Win users (both Joe Beer Drinker and greedy Corporations) -- watch how quick that trust would turn into the software version of road-rage...
Although I don't really believe it'll happen, here's hoping that Steve J decides to give his old arch enemy a real run for all his billions :)
Yes, but then they get old and die & their kids have to relearn the same lessons...