Re: [dev] Re: [surf] cookie race condition for multiple instances?

2009-09-05 Thread Enno Boland (Gottox)
Hey! I hope I get some free time tomorrow to get cookies working more properly. FWIW, in uzbl we use an external script to take care of cookie storage and retrieval. wmich makes it easy to support concurrency and multiple instances can easily share the same script (storage). Thanks for the

Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

2009-09-05 Thread hessiess
But these features are non-standard and will not work the same on different viewers, hence the point, HTML NEVER prints the same from two different viewers. Generally the point of systems like TeX is you can garentee that a document will always look the same, regardless of if it was typeset now or

Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

2009-09-05 Thread Mate Nagy
Hiho, On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:29:39AM -, hessi...@hessiess.com wrote: But these features are non-standard and will not work the same on different viewers, hence the point, HTML NEVER prints the same from two different viewers. Generally the point of systems like TeX is you can garentee

Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

2009-09-05 Thread markus schnalke
[2009-09-05 08:29] hessi...@hessiess.com hessi...@hessiess.com [...] HTML NEVER prints the same from two different viewers. Generally the point of systems like TeX is you can garentee that a document will always look the same, regardless of if it was typeset now or 10 years in the future. I

Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

2009-09-05 Thread markus schnalke
[2009-09-05 10:35] Szabolcs Nagy nszabo...@gmail.com all printed documents are obsolete [...] and ligatures which [...] provides no gain [...] I don't agree on these two statements. When it's about ease of reading, then typography is very important. Well typeset paper books are much easier

Re: [dev] Re: [surf] cookie race condition for multiple instances?

2009-09-05 Thread Aurélien Aptel
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Enno Boland (Gottox)got...@gmail.com wrote: Hey! I hope I get some free time tomorrow to get cookies working more properly. FWIW, in uzbl we use an external script to take care of cookie storage and retrieval. wmich makes it easy to support concurrency and

Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

2009-09-05 Thread stanio
* Mate Nagy mn...@port70.net [2009-09-05 10:19]: This is the most serious drawback of TeX. Documents should look like how the user wants them, not how the author wants them. I think a major requirement is that the author (and user) need to be sure that the user is able to see the author's stuff

Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

2009-09-05 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
On 9/5/09, markus schnalke mei...@marmaro.de wrote: [2009-09-05 10:35] Szabolcs Nagy nszabo...@gmail.com all printed documents are obsolete [...] and ligatures which [...] provides no gain [...] I don't agree on these two statements. When it's about ease of reading, then typography is

Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

2009-09-05 Thread Antoni Grzymala
Szabolcs Nagy dixit (2009-09-05, 10:35): There's also that pagination is annoying and obsolete now, but this is mostly related to the former point. +1 all printed documents are obsolete and any system that is optimized for the 'paper' display medium same applies to hyphenation and

Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

2009-09-05 Thread Mate Nagy
Hiho, On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 11:59:39AM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote: Szabolcs Nagy dixit (2009-09-05, 10:35): also, This is purest craps of crap. A high quality book typeset by a knowledgeable typesetter is *incomparable* to any automatically generated text that you get on screen/PDA or

Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

2009-09-05 Thread David E. Thiel
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 11:52:03AM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: easy processing and searching of digital documents made a huge difference, but copy pasting from a pdf is a pain when there are ligatures and hyphenation etc. This isn't true. Any sane PDF reader converts ligatures to their

Re: [dev] [last] lastfm interface

2009-09-05 Thread Preben Randhol
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:22:35 +0200 Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: I know that last.fm stopped doing the free streaming. since march or something you could still play a few hundred songs but then it stopped working. unless you upgraded to a paid account. 30 tracks actually

Re: [dev] [last] lastfm interface

2009-09-05 Thread Preben Randhol
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:12:38 -0400 Kris Maglione maglion...@gmail.com wrote: I actually switched from Last.FM to Pandora a few months ago, so I suppose things may have changed since the last time I used it. I'll look into it later. Pandora is U.S. only.

Re: [dev] A lightwieight and working typesetting system.

2009-09-05 Thread Suraj Kurapati
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Antoni Grzymalaant...@chopin.edu.pl wrote: Mate Nagy dixit (2009-09-05, 12:17):  Books on paper are great, although the interface is a bit dated; I'd much rather have the 90dpi PDA screen that remembers my position in multiple books, and sometimes I can even