At any rate, you make the mistaken assumption that any developer can and will work on anything. I very much doubt that the people working on WebGL (if there are any - it seems to me it's just an in-progress specification at the moment) are ones that would otherwise work on the things you listed.
Is eliminating Flash not enough? HTML5 is open and (being) standardised; anyone is free to implement it. (And you can see there are already several competing implementations in progress) Flash is a proprietary platform and you are solely dependant on the whims of Adobe. If even just for the lack of choice, Flash is a worse platform. Nothing's forcing Adobe to fix their player, while the HTML5 browsers definitely have some competition going on and are improving at an amazing rate - and in fact when HTML5 starts to pick up, Adobe will be forced to do something, as HTML5 itself will be competition to Flash.
Some people complain about how fast that thing runs (or how much CPU usage it takes), but I bet a flash version would not be even twice as fast, and Flash has existed for how long compared to browser support for HTML5 technologies?
Probably, but why? Unless it's a vector animation to begin with, converting video to SVG will just increase its size several times if you want to maintain any quality at all. Continuously fetching a JPEG frame would probably be faster/better quality (and in fact that is what some webcam sites do at the moment).
And then of course there's always the video element...
Heh. I'm from a country that doesn't use the Roman alphabet and don't have the slightest idea how to write cursive properly in English. I just wrote that paragraph in print, the same way I write everything else. What is the purpose of specifying the way you have to write it?
Are you sure it's opted in by default? I don't remember seeing/modifying it before, but it's off for me. Then again, I might have changed it and forgotten about it.
I must be missing something, but why does it matter that Europe has more Firefox market share? It's summer in the whole northern hemisphere, and I bet that accounts for the majority of web hits.
I'm pretty sure all Nokias have been doing it for quite a while. I also used to have an oldish Siemens that did it as well. It's a pretty obvious way of handling this on a phone, it's not surprising it's used so often.
Apparently you have problems reading and understanding. I'll write it out nice and simple for you.
BitTorrent is not only used for illegal downloads. A major example of legal usage would be Blizzard's download system. While your suggestions (technically infeasible, by the way - otherwise they would have been implemented already) may be well-intentioned, they will also prevent legitimate usage of P2P. That was the GP's point.
The 2.6 series has been around since 2003, with a new 2.6.x version every few months bringing in fixes and improvements. Saying the previous version was just running "2.6" is far from being specific. The are a lot of major as well as minor differences between 2.6.0 and 2.6.27.
You can do some of that without an extension. Just drag the link onto the current tab/the location bar to open it in the current tab, a space in between/after tabs for a new tab, or the search bar to search for the string.
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Wait, where did Linux come into this?
At any rate, you make the mistaken assumption that any developer can and will work on anything. I very much doubt that the people working on WebGL (if there are any - it seems to me it's just an in-progress specification at the moment) are ones that would otherwise work on the things you listed.
"Why not" is a fair enough reason.
I highly doubt it will yield any decent compression though. Maybe you can prove me wrong. :)
Is eliminating Flash not enough? HTML5 is open and (being) standardised; anyone is free to implement it. (And you can see there are already several competing implementations in progress) Flash is a proprietary platform and you are solely dependant on the whims of Adobe. If even just for the lack of choice, Flash is a worse platform. Nothing's forcing Adobe to fix their player, while the HTML5 browsers definitely have some competition going on and are improving at an amazing rate - and in fact when HTML5 starts to pick up, Adobe will be forced to do something, as HTML5 itself will be competition to Flash.
Some people complain about how fast that thing runs (or how much CPU usage it takes), but I bet a flash version would not be even twice as fast, and Flash has existed for how long compared to browser support for HTML5 technologies?
Probably, but why? Unless it's a vector animation to begin with, converting video to SVG will just increase its size several times if you want to maintain any quality at all. Continuously fetching a JPEG frame would probably be faster/better quality (and in fact that is what some webcam sites do at the moment).
And then of course there's always the video element...
Will it really matter if it's only half a pound?
How was Firefox not a decent browser until 1.5/2?
What's the point then? Why release a 2.5" drive when it won't fit in 90% of devices that take 2.5" drives?
Heh. I'm from a country that doesn't use the Roman alphabet and don't have the slightest idea how to write cursive properly in English. I just wrote that paragraph in print, the same way I write everything else. What is the purpose of specifying the way you have to write it?
Are you sure it's opted in by default? I don't remember seeing/modifying it before, but it's off for me. Then again, I might have changed it and forgotten about it.
I could have missed it, but I don't think the submitter ever mentioned he was talking about software.
How about July?
I must be missing something, but why does it matter that Europe has more Firefox market share? It's summer in the whole northern hemisphere, and I bet that accounts for the majority of web hits.
Huh? FF 3.5 is what was going to be 3.1, they just bumped up the version number.
I guess you mean 3.0.11 or something.
Works great for me, found my location within 10 m in two different places in the same UK city.
Then it's a good thing a computer-only browser implements this feature...
Someone has to make the first step. Also, Fennec.
They sort of did, actually. There's an option for what the bar should suggest when typing. Options are history, bookmarks, none or both (the default).
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I'm pretty sure all Nokias have been doing it for quite a while. I also used to have an oldish Siemens that did it as well. It's a pretty obvious way of handling this on a phone, it's not surprising it's used so often.
Oh, and Sybian (nsfw) vs Symbian - bad typo there :P
Apparently you have problems reading and understanding. I'll write it out nice and simple for you.
BitTorrent is not only used for illegal downloads. A major example of legal usage would be Blizzard's download system. While your suggestions (technically infeasible, by the way - otherwise they would have been implemented already) may be well-intentioned, they will also prevent legitimate usage of P2P. That was the GP's point.
You know the same argument can be applied to consoles, right?
Name a few console-only titles worth playing then.
It matches the section's colour.
It's not an icon for McDonalds, it's just a picture accompanying the story like some stories have.
The 2.6 series has been around since 2003, with a new 2.6.x version every few months bringing in fixes and improvements. Saying the previous version was just running "2.6" is far from being specific. The are a lot of major as well as minor differences between 2.6.0 and 2.6.27.
You can do some of that without an extension. Just drag the link onto the current tab/the location bar to open it in the current tab, a space in between/after tabs for a new tab, or the search bar to search for the string.
In addition to what the other reply said, it doesn't work outside the US.