Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes
It looks much better, but the layout seems to be a bit odd on mobile (see http://imgur.com/oi2voVx). I have some free time later today, I could make a snippet of CSS to make it a bit more responsive/fluid for smaller screens. Sent using CloudMagic On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote:Hi all!Just a quick note to let everyone know about some changes to the FreeDOS website.I've been working on improving the FreeDOS website, and tonight I started making the first user-visible changes. Up until now, the changes have been pretty minor, and probably invisible to most folks (some link cleanup, behind-the-scenes cleanup, fixing typos, ... that sort of thing).You may notice that the "Welcome to FreeDOS" section at the top is no longer "collapsed." Before, you had to click on each question to see the answer - and the website would only show one "answer" at a time. Not everyone likes this behavior (including me, at least recently) so I am changing it. In time, I'll make this cleaner. It's too long right now. Maybe I'll re-write it, or restructure the page to do without it. I'll work on that over the holiday break.Other than that, I haven't made any dramatic changes to the website. I only want to clean things up, not change everything. No structural changes. No big changes to the design or anything.What do you think of the website improvements so far? -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes
Oops. I may have dropped the css section that uses a smaller logo on small/mobile screens. That prevents the artifacts you see here. I'll put that back over the break. Thanks for pointing that out. Also over the break, I'll make the Welcome section easier to read, especially on mobile. On Dec 19, 2014 6:12 AM, Corbin Davenport davenportcor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks much better, but the layout seems to be a bit odd on mobile (see http://imgur.com/oi2voVx). I have some free time later today, I could make a snippet of CSS to make it a bit more responsive/fluid for smaller screens. Sent using CloudMagic https://cloudmagic.com/k/d/mailapp?ct=pacv=5.1.11.3pv=5.0 On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: Hi all! Just a quick note to let everyone know about some changes to the FreeDOS website. I've been working on improving the FreeDOS website, and tonight I started making the first user-visible changes. Up until now, the changes have been pretty minor, and probably invisible to most folks (some link cleanup, behind-the-scenes cleanup, fixing typos, ... that sort of thing). You may notice that the Welcome to FreeDOS section at the top is no longer collapsed. Before, you had to click on each question to see the answer - and the website would only show one answer at a time. Not everyone likes this behavior (including me, at least recently) so I am changing it. In time, I'll make this cleaner. It's too long right now. Maybe I'll re-write it, or restructure the page to do without it. I'll work on that over the holiday break. Other than that, I haven't made any dramatic changes to the website. I only want to clean things up, not change everything. No structural changes. No big changes to the design or anything. What do you think of the website improvements so far? -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes
FYI, if you want to send me files, send them to me off list. On Dec 19, 2014 7:31 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: Oops. I may have dropped the css section that uses a smaller logo on small/mobile screens. That prevents the artifacts you see here. I'll put that back over the break. Thanks for pointing that out. Also over the break, I'll make the Welcome section easier to read, especially on mobile. On Dec 19, 2014 6:12 AM, Corbin Davenport davenportcor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks much better, but the layout seems to be a bit odd on mobile (see http://imgur.com/oi2voVx). I have some free time later today, I could make a snippet of CSS to make it a bit more responsive/fluid for smaller screens. Sent using CloudMagic https://cloudmagic.com/k/d/mailapp?ct=pacv=5.1.11.3pv=5.0 On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: Hi all! Just a quick note to let everyone know about some changes to the FreeDOS website. I've been working on improving the FreeDOS website, and tonight I started making the first user-visible changes. Up until now, the changes have been pretty minor, and probably invisible to most folks (some link cleanup, behind-the-scenes cleanup, fixing typos, ... that sort of thing). You may notice that the Welcome to FreeDOS section at the top is no longer collapsed. Before, you had to click on each question to see the answer - and the website would only show one answer at a time. Not everyone likes this behavior (including me, at least recently) so I am changing it. In time, I'll make this cleaner. It's too long right now. Maybe I'll re-write it, or restructure the page to do without it. I'll work on that over the holiday break. Other than that, I haven't made any dramatic changes to the website. I only want to clean things up, not change everything. No structural changes. No big changes to the design or anything. What do you think of the website improvements so far? -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)
Tax time; my dos Qpro macros will be adding up my incomes so I can pay the man. Improved tech makes things better; just ask Sony. Broadband use made the hacks possible. My dial up is so slow it takes a half hour to download a virus, plenty of time to hit stop. DS On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:35:20 -0500 dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/16/2014 4:01 PM, dmccunney wrote: DOS is not dead but people need to treat DOS as DOS, not as a second coming of Linux... The fundamental issue for DOS is exactly what you *do* with it, and *why* you might use DOS in preference to something else like Linux. The fact that something *can* run DOS doesn't necessarily mean it *should*. Works the other way around as well. Just because you can get basic web browsing features or other uses of the Internet on (Free)DOS, doesn't mean you should either... Precisely. I don't even try. In my case, the question of Why use DOS? is mostly for fun, and to run a few ancient DOS apps I still use. The machine that runs FreeDOS is largely a testbed to see what performance I can wring out of limited hardware. It more-or-less runs Win2K (but *not* XP) and a couple of flavors of Linux, and FreeDOS. Win2K and Linux plod along. FreeDOS flies on it. But I *don't* try to surf the web from it, in any OS. It's simply too slow, even with a CAT5 connection to a port on my router. I also don't attempt to watch YouTube. Audio is okay, but video is a series of still pictures. The machine simply isn't powerful enough to do such things acceptably. My desktop is a refurb Dell unit, with a quad-core Xeon CPU at 2.4ghz, 8GB RAM, and boots from a 240GB SSD, with an ATI video card with a gig of video RAM. It multi-boots Win 7 Pro and Ubuntu 14.04, nad has a CAT5 connection to my router, which connects to a 100mbit feed from my ISP. It's a pleasure to use. Things like web surfing and YouTube are done on it. I can even run the few old DOS apps on it, using the vDOS fork of the open source DOSBox emulator. vDOS is Windows specifric and intended to run character mode business apps. (There is extensive discussion on the WordStar list on how to configure it to run WS 7 on 64 bit Win 7 and Win 8.1 machines.) Folks complaining about the problems involved in trying to surf the web and view video from DOS are frankly wasting their time. It might be theoretically possible to enhance DOS support for such things, but it would be a significant development effort. Who would do it, and why would they bother? No one is going to *pay* to have it done, and there are more rewarding things to code for fun. Ralf __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 - - Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clk trk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Find the Perfect Watch Shop Blount Jewels For The Perfect Watch This Holiday Season. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/549460d5e7aae60d558b1mp13duc ** From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *** -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Improved tech makes things better; just ask Sony. Broadband use made the hacks possible. Broadband made hacks delivery *faster*. They were already *possible*. Viruses were a pestilence back when everything was still DOS and dial up. My dial up is so slow it takes a half hour to download a virus, plenty of time to hit stop. Assuming you know what you're downloading *is* a virus. But if you know that, why are you downloading? But that's a thought: we should all insure security by abjuring broadband and going back to dial up. Yeah, right. Not *possible* where I am. Verizon is making copper go away as fast as it can, and for good reason. I wouldn't do it if it *were* possible. Too much of what I do requires broadband. DS __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)
I'll miss copper because it continued to serve in a black out. Without power there is no fiber optic. bs On Fri, 12/19/14, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60) To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Friday, December 19, 2014, 2:34 PM On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Improved tech makes things better; just ask Sony. Broadband use made the hacks possible. Broadband made hacks delivery *faster*. They were already *possible*. Viruses were a pestilence back when everything was still DOS and dial up. My dial up is so slow it takes a half hour to download a virus, plenty of time to hit stop. Assuming you know what you're downloading *is* a virus. But if you know that, why are you downloading? But that's a thought: we should all insure security by abjuring broadband and going back to dial up. Yeah, right. Not *possible* where I am. Verizon is making copper go away as fast as it can, and for good reason. I wouldn't do it if it *were* possible. Too much of what I do requires broadband. DS __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
