Mike Ditto wrote: > Rich Teer wrote On 06/28/06 16:21,: > > (Also, as a sidenote, since > > when did UNIX programs start referring to themselves in the > > 3rd person?!) > > 1979. :-) At least that seems to be about when the convention of > programs including their own names in error messages became the norm. > Unix V7 /bin/cp from 1979 does it, the V6 version doesn't. > > But I get what you mean, "Firefox doesn't know how to ..." does sound > a bit alien compared to a more Unixish, pseudo-1st-person, > "firefox: don't know how to ..." > > But is Firefox really "a Unix program"?
Firefox is basically a "virtual machine" which executes dynamic documents written in HTML, XML, XUL, SVG and JavaScript. And the wild mixture of these buzzwords should give you an imagination what this junk really is (or better: What is has become since "cool stuff" is being favoured over technically clean solutions) ... ;-( ... if you want a real browser (including IRC support) then use Mozilla Seamonkey or Konqueror... :-) ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
