Re: DISCUSSION: Need *LoRiskHiReward* Keyword for beginner or casual/occasional contributers

2001-08-14 Thread Mark Anderson
Peter Lairo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have yet to find a situation where your keyword *does* apply. Really? or whas that defensive rhetoric? What about bugs that only require editing text (e.g. 123kb to 123 kb - add a space)? Those aren't high reward, by any stretch of the

Re: DISCUSSION: Need *LoRiskHiReward* Keyword for beginner or casual/occasional contributers

2001-08-14 Thread Mark Anderson
Peter Lairo wrote: the name of the keyword is *not* what is important. I have long since suggested easy2fix or *whatever*. The important issue is to get a keyword of bugs that newbies and other persons with limmited time can work on. But then you need to listen to what Blake, Asa, and Ian

Re: Mozilla and NN6 Usage

2001-07-31 Thread Mark Anderson
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Been reading up on the subject In MacWorld and MacAddict. Both suggest that Unix has always more unsecure than the Mac Os-9 and lower. One reason they suggest is the fact it been optimize for use on the inetrnet and because its always been open source. They

Re: Everyone Cookies

2001-06-26 Thread Mark Anderson
JTK wrote: Fix it? Don't be a sucker Chuck! Take the Maozilla source, fix it, *don't* release the source to the fixed portion but instead have your own Chuckzilla proprietary distro, and you come out smelling like a rose! Wow, I'm surprised somebody else hasn't thought of doing

Re: THIS GUY (JTK) IS A REAL JERK - DO NOT BE FOOLED, HE IS HERE TO DISRUPT

2001-06-24 Thread Mark Anderson
JTK wrote: You're either being paid by Microsoft Yeah that's the first time I've been accused of that by a religious zealot. Uh, in the defense of the rest of we religious zealots (your words, not mine), Peter Lairo does not speak for us. :)

Re: Will Mozilla download Netscape Webmail for offline reading

2001-06-23 Thread Mark Anderson
jesus X wrote: JTK wrote: And that recoding could be a simple Javascript program or Perl program or hell probably just a few regex's, one for each service. You seem to have no problem interpreting the entire Maozilla GUI from ASCII text, why do you balk when such scripting

Re: Major Featur Status?

2001-06-20 Thread Mark Anderson
Garth Wallace wrote: David Wilson wrote: As of today, the milestone page (http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html) appears somewhat out of date lacking even the actual release date for Moz 0.9.1 and with no tentative schedule for the next release(s). I use this page to follow the

Re: Newsgroups restructure

2001-06-18 Thread Mark Anderson
JTK wrote: Because the statement is neither correct, nor proven to be so. It is correct, I proved it, and caught nothing but flack for my yet-to-be-disproven numbers. In fact recently someone else has posted similar results, in a pretty embarrasing attempt to *disprove* them! There

Re: Netscape 6.1 instead of 6.5?

2001-06-10 Thread Mark Anderson
Mark wrote: The directory is not accessible, but it looks like there may be a Netscape 6.1 before 6.5. Who knows! -- Mark Knipfer Windows 2000 Mailing List http://knipferspot.com/win2000.html Not before 6.5, unless they have another major update to the 6.x line. 6.1 is the number of

Re: Recent builds xpcom.dll proc entry point not found

2001-05-14 Thread Mark Anderson
Randall Parker wrote: Either Moz or the installer ought to have better behavior here. Directory of G:\prg\moz\bin\components\*.dll 2/15/01 10:56 1,823,744 gkhtml.dll I'll bet it was that one. The rendering DLL was split up into two DLLs (one for layout and one for content, I

Re: SPAM in n.p.m.announce [was Re: We ALL want to be better parents...DON'T WE?!?!?]

2001-05-13 Thread Mark Anderson
Garth Wallace wrote: Subject:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Dont We All Want To Be Better Parents... Don't We? Would you like to know how you could make a difference in the world ? your children live in? Would you like new or different ideas of Fun

Re: Can my computer handle Mozilla?

2001-05-07 Thread Mark Anderson
Gervase Markham wrote: I know at least one person whose thesis got eaten by Word who would disagree with you there. And I can name, off the top of my head, 3 dozen more here at Luther who have had the same scenario at least twice. And they're all sophomores. But that's off-topic.

Re: Can my computer handle Mozilla?

2001-05-07 Thread Mark Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless my sarcasm meter is faulty, you imply below (Or did you already know that?) that my numbers may have been less than uncooked. To make such an implication, I would think you'd have to have some idea what these other factors might be. You claim to not know.

Re: Happy 3rd Birthday Mozilla :-)

2001-04-21 Thread Mark Anderson
Unlike Unix or Windoze Mac allows for use of Space in Names. Actually, that's been allowed in Windows since Win95. And I think *nix to some degree allows it, but not quite as elegantly. I've never actually tried using spaces in a directory or filename on my Linux partition.

Re: Happy 3rd Birthday Mozilla :-)

2001-04-19 Thread Mark Anderson
JTK wrote: Mark Anderson wrote: JTK wrote: But I do have to give Netscape credit for finally dropping the "Jazilla" concept. God, can you imagine? Actually, yeah. Java's a whole lot easier to design good renderers in than C++. Right, which is why the

Re: Happy 3rd Birthday Mozilla :-)

2001-04-18 Thread Mark Anderson
JTK wrote: But I do have to give Netscape credit for finally dropping the "Jazilla" concept. God, can you imagine? Actually, yeah. Java's a whole lot easier to design good renderers in than C++. I say that as one of the former developers of Jazilla. Netscape abandoned it long (read:

Re: Happy 3rd Birthday Mozilla :-)

2001-04-18 Thread Mark Anderson
JTK wrote: "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: [snip] I disagree with the assertion that Mac Platform is irrelevant. Currently because of the G4, iBook, Titanium G4 500 (remember because the G4 processor is pure RISC it almost twice as fast as Pentium) Notebook, and iMac, its the

Re: Mozilla's icons

2001-04-04 Thread Mark Anderson
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: And by the way. Why is it a stretch of Dollars to buy a Mac, and not a PC. Can they purchase a a decent PC for $99.95 including software. Because people *already own PCs*. Just as you already own a Mac. I've yet to hear of anyone who has gone out and bought

Re: We need janitors

2001-03-31 Thread Mark Anderson
Phil Sweeney wrote: jesus X wrote: In fact, janitorial work can be a good entry path for aspiring kernel hackers. It helps these people become MUCH more conformable in their knowledge of the code before they start actualy WORK, as opposed to cleanup duty. Not only are they

Re: Mozilla and Netscape 6

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Anderson
Stuart Ballard wrote: Oh well. 6.5 will wow everyone. I hope so. Even C|net, which originally gave N6 a good review (and then turned full circle and said it was terrible) is touting IE 6 as possibly the last nail in Netscape's coffin. But then again, they said that about 5.5. And 5.0. And

Re: Mozilla's icons

2001-03-24 Thread Mark Anderson
Robert Ennis wrote: Maybe you're right. But the Mac icon is elegant and the PC icon has zero design integrity. For what it's worth. I don't know; I've always liked the gecko. :)

Re: Sun or Netscape?

2001-03-11 Thread Mark Anderson
Fernando Cassia wrote: Javascript was invented by Netscape, to build on the java boom. Nah. That's just the reason it was named Javascript (altogether unfortunately). LiveScript (the original name) was under development well before the marketing name change to Javascript.

Re: Help me delete a profile!

2001-02-26 Thread Mark Anderson
Stuart Ballard wrote: Gervase Markham wrote (on the topic of "qa" being interpreted as "QA"): hahahahahahhaa this is a good one, I'll remember it. I wouldn't laugh. Many people make the same mistake. That's why the new version will be called ".quality". :-) Hmm. I didn't think of

Re: Link problem

2001-02-25 Thread Mark Anderson
Matthew Thomas wrote: Oh yeah, baby! ++ || ++ | . The link you have selected points to

Re: Link problem

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Anderson
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: The average consumer (and me too) will say it works with NS4.76 or IE5 but not with Mozilla, and therefore Mozilla is broke. For perfectly good evidence of this, take a look at the bug page at how many times this has been

Re: Link problem

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Anderson
Duane Clark wrote: Mark Anderson wrote: End users should be given the option of what to do in this scenario. Not to interpret the link as a relative one, when logic tells me that this would be wrong (despite the 95-99% figure thrown about here, I've yet to see a *single* link in my

Re: Link problem

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Anderson
Duane Clark wrote: Mark Anderson wrote: Duane Clark wrote: Mark Anderson wrote: End users should be given the option of what to do in this scenario. Not to interpret the link as a relative one, when logic tells me that this would be wrong (despite the 95-99% figure thrown

Re: Link problem

2001-02-24 Thread Mark Anderson
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: In 4.7.6 just placing mouse pointer over the: A HREF="http:/fmf/wwwpages/fmf_models.html" appears as :http://vhdl.org/fmf/wwwpages/fmf_models.html window at the bottom having the: Lock icon, offline Icon, and the Floating component Bar. Ok, I think

Re: Link problem

2001-02-23 Thread Mark Anderson
Duane Clark wrote: Sigh In my browsing through bugzilla looking for this (I was looking for "link" rather than "slash") I came across several other cases like this where the solution has been "don't fix because the link is broken". I can understand how that might sound like a tempting

Re: Mozilla file type icon suggestion

2001-02-17 Thread Mark Anderson
Warren Bell wrote: I made up some file type icons. They're not perfect yet, and I don't know how to make them into actual icons, but how do they look? If there isn't any file type icons being worked on yet where can I submit these? Like I said they're not the greatest but it might be

Re: Mozilla 0.8 Mail/News still not ready for prime time

2001-02-16 Thread Mark Anderson
It's still painfully slow on my Pentium 233, but it's improving. That problem will go away for me in a few weeks though, once our new PCs come in. But I imagine that not everyone will be that fortunate. This particular problem will be improving significantly over the next few months. Dave

Re: netscape-6.01

2001-02-14 Thread Mark Anderson
AhmetAA wrote: Hi N6.5 is quite pesimistic.. Not if you consider that it's probably the next .x release, given Netscape's marketing

Re: layers

2001-02-03 Thread Mark Anderson
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: All of this is well and good the question hasn't been answered what exactly to do layers do why tey are so easy to do and why because they were so easy to do did W3C decide they were to easy and therefore shouldn't be used? I'm still dense. And really

Re: Mozilla - Win2k - Memory Usage

2001-01-15 Thread Mark Anderson
Frank Chu wrote: Just a random thing about memory usage... in win2k, i am seeing via task manager, that mozilla uses anywhere from 15k - 20k(idle, one navigator window open, and the mail/new client) to 40-50k(2 windows open, browsing newgroups and reading messages) of memory. is that

Re: getting media player plugins to work

2001-01-08 Thread Mark Anderson
Although the standards for plugins have been around 10 years or more (if everyone - plugin manufacturers - have been writing the same way for years that seems like a standard). Um, four, maybe five, years tops. And there's never been a standard. Even the de facto standard of Netscape

Re: About minimum platform requirements.

2001-01-05 Thread Mark Anderson
C'mon mate - foundations first, Wallpaper and paint last! And what you just argued for *is* Mozilla the platform. Of which the browser is just one user.

Re: Isn't Mozilla for more than PCs?

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Anderson
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: This is another argument altogether - AIUI, Mozilla isn't *for* end users (although they are very welcome to use it.) :-) Can you be serious? If so, there is little hope for this project. Why? Again, as I understand

Re: DIV: Re: Win32 download size

2000-12-17 Thread Mark Anderson
Are there really that many 28K modems left in the world? It's dependent on where you live. The problem is not so much my modem, but my phone lines. DSL ain't available here, either. My only real high-speed alternative is a cable modem, but I have reasons for not choosing that option. So,

Re: Why can Opera be so fast and Mozilla so slow?

2000-12-09 Thread Mark Anderson
Both browsers have the challenge of being multiplatform. Yet, Opera 5 is resource friendly, fast, and pretty standards compliant. I try to use K-Meleon as a benchmark as to what Mozilla can be without all the frills and more. Even it isn't as fast as Opera. With Mozilla being open source,

Re: Newsgroup Renaming: Update

2000-12-08 Thread Mark Anderson
Ben Bucksch wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: As most of you will know, there is a plan to reorganise the Mozilla newsgroup hierarchy. The new hierarchy has now been finalised - however, unfortunately, Netscape IS (who are responsible for making the changes) are not going to be able to

Re: Netscape 6 and MS Intellimouse

2000-11-26 Thread Mark Anderson
Why is MicroSoft or MacAlley, or Kensington ,or the other Manufacturer's supposed to be wrong. Last I heard an Application is supposed to follow the Guidelines of a System. Not the system following guidelines of the Applications. Am I missing something??? Yep. Namely that a device