4) The ".com" means you run a business, ".info" means info, ".net" gone, ".xxx" good, ".biz" wtf, ".spam" yesss
Why oh just why we haven't think of it before?
the interface in WinVista (looks kinda like KDE or Mac OS X)
I kinda noticed that too. I've been trying to make KDE look more like Windows (using smaller and nicer fonts, minimalistic interface, etc.) and they seem to move the opposite direction... Vista (or what I've seen so far) indeed looks more like KDE and less like Windows.
One more reason to stick with Linux/KDE, because I doubt they will offer the same level of customization of GUI in Vista - maybe I can actually make KDE look like more like Windows than Windows.
I have to agree, OOo is nothing short of butt-ugly on KDE. Huge buttons, ugly fonts, colors not matching your desktop settings, etc.
But it's not always true that open source community can't provide eye candy.. Baghira anyone?
It's not just a new language for serving static content. For simple pages people should stick with HTML 4.0 for all I care.
The new client side APIs and the XForms spec are the killer here, especially for more complex web applications where it's already pain in the ass to design and use stateful UI components, with validation and so on. Current frameworks (JSF, ASP.NET,...) manage to do so to some extend, but in pretty crappy way. In ASP.NET for example it's not uncommon to see 10kB of just state data going down to *and* up from client on every request. XForms could pretty much change this.
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4) The ".com" means you run a business, ".info" means info, ".net" gone, ".xxx" good, ".biz" wtf, ".spam" yesss Why oh just why we haven't think of it before?
the interface in WinVista (looks kinda like KDE or Mac OS X)
I kinda noticed that too. I've been trying to make KDE look more like Windows (using smaller and nicer fonts, minimalistic interface, etc.) and they seem to move the opposite direction... Vista (or what I've seen so far) indeed looks more like KDE and less like Windows.
One more reason to stick with Linux/KDE, because I doubt they will offer the same level of customization of GUI in Vista - maybe I can actually make KDE look like more like Windows than Windows.
Because France is in the EU so any French can move to Netherlands without the status of an immigrant.
I have to agree, OOo is nothing short of butt-ugly on KDE. Huge buttons, ugly fonts, colors not matching your desktop settings, etc. But it's not always true that open source community can't provide eye candy.. Baghira anyone?
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It's not just a new language for serving static content. For simple pages people should stick with HTML 4.0 for all I care.
...) manage to do so to some extend, but in pretty crappy way. In ASP.NET for example it's not uncommon to see 10kB of just state data going down to *and* up from client on every request. XForms could pretty much change this.
The new client side APIs and the XForms spec are the killer here, especially for more complex web applications where it's already pain in the ass to design and use stateful UI components, with validation and so on. Current frameworks (JSF, ASP.NET,