On 2008-10-08, Sylvain Abélard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Flash in particular doesn't think it should be in FS mode if it doesn't have >> the focus. > > Flash has many defects, but is this one so bad ?
It is. Most importantly, there's a race condition: if the flash window doesn't get the focus fast enough, when it goes into FS mode, it will close. But this "trying to outsmart the WM" also means you can't open the scratchpad while flash is FS, can't switch back to another WS while flash is FS, or the window will un-FS. > I wouldn't like the ugly Flash ads on a web-page to make itself > fullscreen without asking, This "feature" won't stop that, if the flash crap can avoid the above-mentioned race condition. > Flash is made for dummies. All Web technology invented after HTML 2.0, with the exception of CSS, is for dummies. (And even CSS is too complicated. I suspect it could be simplified a lot, if would only have to cater to document layout, not application layout. And applications would benefit from something not suited to documents. *sigh* again trying to do everything with one language.) >> Be an early adopter! Beat the herd! Choose Windows today! > Your troll-power is exceptional :D Just stating where things seem to be going. > PS: would it be easy to fix this ML's "reply-to"? Is it possible, do > we want to avoid it? There's a problem? It should not be set, and there's a school of thought that thinks this is how it should be. I have no particular opinion (!) about the matter, but tend to slightly side with not setting it. I just wish MUAs were more intelligent about List-Post and headers. Even mutt -- the mail user agent that sucks the least -- is stupid with regard to mailing lists. It sucks having to configure the lists in .procmailrc, include a subscribe line in .muttrc, include a mailbox line in .muttrc for checking for new mail (or alternatively, if not procmailed into separate folders, write save-hooks), and then remember to press L instead of r to reply. The default reply key should ask what to do when there are multiple options (list, group, or just the poster, etc.). Setting Reply-To is a workaround to retarded MUAs. I just use slrn and nntp://news.gmane.org whenever possible. -- "[Fashion] is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." -- Oscar Wilde "The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion." -- RMS
