I had to install Firefox on my Mac because my e-mail account at yahoo.com no longer recognizes Safari. My problem mostly with Firefox is that it is a hard disc hog as well as a RAM hog; and, causes everthing on the net; and, if it is running in the background, on my Mac itself, run as slowly as 'molasses in January'; and, I just hate standing at my computer 'twiddling my thumbs'.
JG On 8/3/07, James Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you think it's worth giving it a go? > James > On 4 Aug 2007, at 00:30, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > > I think it's not only possible, but likely, if anyone comes forward to > > do the work as Waara did before. As with any project, often bugs > > remain unfixed in Firefox for a long time because, although everyone > > is agreed they should be fixed, no-one puts in the time to fix them. > > And this is quite a large and complex bug. > > > > On the other hand, I don't think Fire Vox is particularly expensive in > > terms of hard disk storage. > > > > -- > > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > > > On 8/4/07, James Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ah thank you for explaining it to me Benjamin > >> > >> Do you think it is possible that Firefox will one day be VO usuable > >> without the need for Firvox? I am not aainst speech enabled programs > >> like this, but it just seems that VO might be able to do it on its > >> own so saving space on the hard drive. > >> > >> Thanks james > >> On 3 Aug 2007, at 23:50, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > >> > >>> Jude's problem with Mozilla Firefox is not the lack of Java Access > >>> Bridge, but that the nobody has finished exposing Mozilla widgets to > >>> the Apple Accessibility API that VoiceOver uses to understand > >>> applications. Here's the relevant bug in the Mozilla bugzilla: > >>> > >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157209 > >>> > >>> Unfortunately for Firefox, Håkan Waara, who was working on this, > >>> found > >>> a job and no longer had time to continue. So currently nobody is > >>> working on it, as far as I know. > >>> > >>> On the other hand, there is Fire Vox, as James mentioned, an > >>> extension > >>> that turns Firefox into a talking browser, and that does work on Mac > >>> OS X. The homepage is: > >>> > >>> http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/ > >>> > >>> In answer to James's question, what Firefox can do that Safari and > >>> Shiira cannot is essentially a limitless set because, unlike > >>> Safari or > >>> Shiira, Mozilla provides a plugin framework and it has an active > >>> plugin community: > >>> > >>> https://addons.mozilla.org/ > >>> > >>> In addition, the Gecko engine that underpins Firefox supports web > >>> technologies that WebKit, the engine underpinning Safari or Shiira, > >>> does not as yet. These technologies include MathML (a markup > >>> language > >>> for mathematical content) and ARIA (an enhancement to XHTML to make > >>> Ajax widgets more accessible). > >>> > >>> Firefox also has rudimentary support for some basic HTML features > >>> that > >>> Safari and Shiira do not have. For example, Firefox provides some > >>> access to the longdesc attribute for images; Safari and Shiira do > >>> not. > >>> Again, Firefox provides some access to the cite attribute of > >>> quotations, Safari and Shiira do not. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > >>> > >>> On 8/3/07, James Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> There is something called Fire Revox. It is as far as I understand > >>>> it, a speech interfce for Firefox. Can i ask though out of > >>>> curiosity, > >>>> does Firefox do something that Safari or Shiira does not? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks James > >>>> On 3 Aug 2007, at 22:15, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> It may get better for me later this weekend, but for now I > >>>>> recommend mac users who use voiceover stay with safari. It could > >>>>> be that needs java access bridge which so far as I know isn't > >>>>> on my > >>>>> mac yet. When I started firefox up an import wizard came up and I > >>>>> haven't been able so far to either read it or get beyond it. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > >> > >> > > >
