Re: Firefox 12 stability
On 04/05/12 03:35 AM, Roger Burton West wrote: With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version came out? Which is a hate in itself. My e-mail server (Kerio Mailserver) was written with the assumption that, since Firefox 3 was the latest for years, it would never have to handle a 2-digit version code. So when Firefox 10 came out, it assumed I was using Firefox 1, and changed its webmail page appropriately. I'm not entirely sure which software to hate more in this case. But at least I'll only have to wait a few months for Firefox 30, and then it'll be happy again. After all, it's not like it'll go through any major changes.
Re: Firefox 12 stability
* Numien num...@deathwyrm.com [2012-05-04 12:30]: I'm not entirely sure which software to hate more in this case. Any way you turn it, the mail server. That was plain stupid. What, does it cost extra in string manipulation fees to grab more characters? * Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org [2012-05-04 09:40]: With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version came out? I would ask if you would be upset at this if the releases were identical except they were called 4.6 thru 4.11… but we are here united in hate of software so this is not the place to do so.
Re: Firefox 12 stability
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org [2012-05-04 09:40]: With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version came out? I would ask if you would be upset at this if the releases were identical except they were called 4.6 thru 4.11??? but we are here united in hate of software so this is not the place to do so. If they were equally prone to break any software that made the mistake of trying to work with Firefox (rather than holding it off with a chair and a whip), then yes...
Re: Firefox 12 stability
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: I would ask if you would be upset at this if the releases were identical except they were called 4.6 thru 4.11??? I woiuld be even more upset at that, because 4.11 4.6. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world In this episode, R2 and Luke weld the doors shut on their X-Wing, and Chewbacca discovers that his Ewok girlfriend is really just a Womble with its nose chopped off.
Re: Firefox 12 stability
Dave Brown writes: Version-number hyperinflation ... It's not really a new thing, $ less --version less 444 Doesn't seem to cause anybody any harm. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2
Re: Firefox 12 stability
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 06:26:56AM -0400, Numien wrote: On 04/05/12 03:35 AM, Roger Burton West wrote: With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version came out? Which is a hate in itself. My e-mail server (Kerio Mailserver) was written with the assumption that, since Firefox 3 was the latest for years, it would never have to handle a 2-digit version code. So when Firefox 10 came out, it assumed I was using Firefox 1, and changed its webmail page appropriately. Version-number hyperinflation seems to have been something which started with Google Chrome (which is at version 18.somthing at the moment, and that's only the last time I bothered checking) and seems to have been gleefully accepted as an Excellent Idea by all of Chrome's competitors. Remember when emacs was at version 1.18? Then they decided to drop the 1 and go the version-hyperinflation route. It's not really a new thing, it's just that the acceptance of version-hyperinflation has hit a meta-hyperinflation cycle. I fully expect version numbers to explode messily in a couple of years, and emacs, whatever Mozilla's browser is called, and whatever Google's browser is called, will suddenly come out as just being Emacs, Mozilla and Google Browser respectively. Kind of like how Apple short-circuited the iPad version number inflation before it even hit 3 by declaring that henceforth, the current iPad, no matter what its specs, will be simply referred to as the iPad. --Dave
Re: Firefox 12 stability
Dave Brown dagbr...@lart.ca wrote: Remember when emacs was at version 1.18? Then they decided to drop the 1 and go the version-hyperinflation route. Sheesh. And xterm is on version 258 and less is on version 436. The sky is falling! Kind of like how Apple short-circuited the iPad version number inflation before it even hit 3 by declaring that henceforth, the current iPad, no matter what its specs, will be simply referred to as the iPad. See also the model names of the iMac and MacBook. Not a new thing with Apple. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch d...@dotat.at http://dotat.at/ Sole, Lundy, Fastnet: Northeast 4 or 5, occasionally 6 later. Slight or moderate, becoming moderate or rough. Occasional rain. Good, occasionally poor.
