Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-06 Thread Cat
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Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-05 Thread Gert Sidar
JTK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... RV wrote: I would like your name and address so I or my legal counsel can tell you to your face what happened to the last guy who tried to pull this sort of defamation and libel bullshit. Haven't seen him around lately, have

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-05 Thread JTK
Gert Sidar wrote: JTK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... RV wrote: I would like your name and address so I or my legal counsel can tell you to your face what happened to the last guy who tried to pull this sort of defamation and libel bullshit. Haven't seen

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-03 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
JTK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Put up or shut up: list a validated page that fails to display in Mozilla. http://www.cnn.com/. Well, unless you need to do research on week-old news for some reason, perhaps if you were a time traveller or something. For

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-02 Thread JTK
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yet you still can't provide a working test case for it. It's a pity. Have you tried deleting \cache yet like I told you to 3 days ago? He still hasn't seen that request. Wait one more day ;) Sorry.

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-02 Thread RV
JTK wrote: BAHHAHHHAHAAA!!! That is pure *GOLD* BABY YEAH! Were you so zealous about quality when your company put in the market a defective product that risks the lifes of many patients? I would like to know how much you did to

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-02 Thread JTK
RV wrote: JTK wrote: BAHHAHHHAHAAA!!! That is pure *GOLD* BABY YEAH! Were you so zealous about quality when your company put in the market a defective product that risks the lifes of many patients? I would like to know

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-02 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that JTK wrote: Were you so zealous about quality when your company put in the market a defective product that risks the lifes of many patients? I would like to know how much you did to correct that matter. I would like your name and address so I or my legal

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-02 Thread JTK
Christopher Jahn wrote: And it came to pass that JTK wrote: Were you so zealous about quality when your company put in the market a defective product that risks the lifes of many patients? I would like to know how much you did to correct that matter. I would like your name

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-02 Thread DeMoN LaG
JTK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03 Jan 2002: Back in the whatfile? AOLzilla doesn't have a killfile. Oh, I notice you don't appear to be using Mozilla... why is that Mr. Jahn? Why is that? I think it's so funny that you go from Maozilla to

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread JTK
DeMoN LaG wrote: JTK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 30 Dec 2001: Two things: 1. Regardless of what people are telling you, it's not a standards battle. Mozilla is so poorly written that it simply dies on most pages regardless of their

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread JTK
Arthur wrote: You took the words right out of my mouth. Anyone good ideas for a JTK Kill filter? Still waiting for Mozilla to grow one. I'd expect to see it appear just as soon as they get the broken cache fixed, add a simple context menu to the email/news editor, and get something more

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread JTK
gavin long wrote: Nobody's posted numbers recently, I'd love to see how low the percentage is these days. (source: http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm) In the US : 0.75% of hits, and rising. In the UK : 1.2% of hits, and rising. For reference, Opera has 0.4% and 0.1%,

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Sören Kuklau
JTK [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Not with 0.75% market share and stagnating you can't. I recently even convinced my brother to move. And it's not yet final. The magical number. 1.0.

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Christian Biesinger
JTK wrote: Microsoft has 95%+ of the market. They can display every site Mozilla can and plenty it can't. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/xhtml/20011026.xml http://www.libpr0n.com and, to a lesser extent http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html -- They that can

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that JTK wrote: Christopher Jahn wrote: And it came to pass that JTK wrote: [snip] Two things: 1. Regardless of what people are telling you, it's not a standards battle. Mozilla is so poorly written that it simply dies on most pages regardless of their

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Ian Thomas
Geoff wrote: http://www.abit.com.tw/ http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60897 http://www.pcworld.co.uk http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88596 The Mozilla team know about the sites and have been sending letters to their owners, which you can do too. There is not much

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Geoff
On Tue, 01 Jan 2002 15:55:37 +, Ian Thomas wrote: Geoff wrote: http://www.abit.com.tw/ http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60897 http://www.pcworld.co.uk http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88596 The Mozilla team know about the sites and have been sending

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread JS
was eloquently put and I am in the same category - I consider myself an avid enthusiast;I absolutley admire this technology and those that have the where-with-all to put all of this together for the rest of us to use in our everyday work and recreation. One really interesting aspect of all of

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Sören Kuklau
JS [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I just thought I'd add my 2c, and this is not a flame, the question was eloquently put and I am in the same category - I consider myself an avid enthusiast;I absolutley admire this technology and those

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread gavin long
The best part of JTK ran down his mama's thigh. While I have no love for JTK myself, can we try to keep things civilised in here? I don't know why he's allowed to post here - all he does is denigrate the product and the Organizations goals. The downside of freedom of speech,

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread gavin long
JTK wrote: But and rising? I don't think so - it was higher than this the last time I saw some stats like a year ago. Not much mind you, but higher than 0.75%. Stats depend hugely upon how they are gathered. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. Mozilla (including N6) from the US

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Chris Lee
Sören Kuklau wrote: JS [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I just thought I'd add my 2c, and this is not a flame, the question was eloquently put and I am in the same category - I consider myself an avid enthusiast;I absolutley admire this

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Sören Kuklau
Where's your post?! Chris Lee nospam@nospam schrieb im Newsbeitrag 3C32065F.5090808@nospam">news:3C32065F.5090808@nospam... Sören Kuklau wrote: JS [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I just thought I'd add my 2c, and this is not a

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Chris Lee
Just a word of warning: When downloading nightlies you are using test code and as such could encounter a bug that might cause damage to your data. I keep my nightlies in their own directory and use a test profile and only install landmark releases over my day to day mail/browser for use on my

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Chris Lee
Sory hit send when trying to click options menu. I have since cancled the message. Sören Kuklau wrote: Where's your post?! snip

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Sören Kuklau wrote: Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... And how many search out the Opera part of the user agent? Some people ID IE by looking for Mozilla/4.0 (compatible...) and ignore everything else. Whether that's true or

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread DeMoN LaG
JTK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01 Jan 2002: http://www.cnn.com/. Well, unless you need to do research on week-old news for some reason, perhaps if you were a time traveller or something. For us more mundane types, we call it failing to display

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread neil . marshall
And yet you still can't provide a working test case for it. It's a pity. Have you tried deleting \cache yet like I told you to 3 days ago? He still hasn't seen that request. Wait one more day ;) Sorry.

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread DeMoN LaG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01 Jan 2002: He still hasn't seen that request. Wait one more day ;) Sorry. If he next says that Mozilla's newsreader shows 4 day old information I will truly feel sorry, for we will then realize that it is not a 4

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread news.mozilla.org
Mozilla has 0.75% of the market. Why is that? Why Chris? You're too shortsighted. You need to look ahead to an embedded world. Do you understand how much marketshare embedding Mozilla into AOL and Compuserve would bring? ~20%. Oh, and did you know that many Compaq computers just started

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Blake Ross
Got my name changed officially today, it's now Blake Ross. What do you folks think? (Yes, that was user error.) Blake news.mozilla.org wrote: Mozilla has 0.75% of the market. Why is that? Why Chris? You're too shortsighted. You need to look ahead to an embedded world. Do you

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2002-01-01 Thread Pascal Chevrel
gavin long wrote: JTK wrote: But and rising? I don't think so - it was higher than this the last time I saw some stats like a year ago. Not much mind you, but higher than 0.75%. Stats depend hugely upon how they are gathered. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool. Mozilla

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Arthur
You took the words right out of my mouth. Anyone good ideas for a JTK Kill filter? On 31-12-2001 7:13, DeMoN LaG made an attempt to write... Oh shut up already. I *really* wish this weren't an open source project right now, so they could ban you permanently. You do nothing but disrupt,

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Sören Kuklau
I yesterday even convinced my brother (!) to try out Mozilla, and guess what, first response was OMG! It's COOL! and he's still searching for real disadvantages. JTK [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Geoff wrote: [snip] Thanks both to

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread gavin long
Nobody's posted numbers recently, I'd love to see how low the percentage is these days. (source: http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm) In the US : 0.75% of hits, and rising. In the UK : 1.2% of hits, and rising. For reference, Opera has 0.4% and 0.1%, respectively. As always, these

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Geoff
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:06:38 +, David W. Fenton wrote: To be honest, I used to encounter far more unusable pages with NS 4.x than I do with Mozilla. And with proper stylesheet support, everything just looks better in Mozilla, too. I absolutely agree that when Moz can display a page at

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Sören Kuklau
Not quite: No matter what you choose in Opera's Identify as:, it always includes Opera/version in the user agent string. Helge Hielscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... gavin long wrote: For reference, Opera has 0.4% and 0.1%,

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Travis Crump
Geoff wrote: Unfortunately, so far as needing to fire up other browsers to view pages is concerned, my experience is obviously different from yours. I don't expect you to spend time visiting these sites, but to take just two recent examples : http://www.abit.com.tw/ bad browser sniffing, it

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Johnny Yen
Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:46:58 +, Albert wrote: Geoff wrote: Hi, This post is *not* a complaint. I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for the developers of moz, galeon, and opera, all of

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Geoff
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:36:40 +, Travis Crump wrote: Geoff wrote: Unfortunately, so far as needing to fire up other browsers to view pages is concerned, my experience is obviously different from yours. I don't expect you to spend time visiting these sites, but to take just two recent

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Johnny Yen
Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:36:40 +, Travis Crump wrote: Geoff wrote: (2) What is bad about layers? Are they in some sense dangerous (which seems unlikely to me, but maybe I am wrong), or do they simply

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Christian Biesinger
Geoff wrote: (1) Am I right in thinking that there is nothing that Moz could ever do to correct the bad sniffing problem? In other words, if a site sends stuff that is obviously intended for NS is there simply no way that Moz could default to NS behaviour - not even with a whole lot of

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Sören Kuklau
Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... (1) Am I right in thinking that there is nothing that Moz could ever do to correct the bad sniffing problem? In other words, if a site sends stuff that is obviously intended for NS is there simply no

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Geoff
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:13:17 +, Johnny Yen wrote: Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:36:40 +, Travis Crump wrote: Geoff wrote: (2) What is bad about layers? Are they in some sense dangerous (which seems

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Geoff
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:31:37 +, Christian Biesinger wrote: Geoff wrote: (1) Am I right in thinking that there is nothing that Moz could ever do to correct the bad sniffing problem? In other words, if a site sends stuff that is obviously intended for NS is there simply no way that Moz

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Geoff
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:39:15 +, Sören Kuklau wrote: Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... But ... proprietory or not, standard or not, IE supports them No, does not. (or at least it can render the pages I mentioned) Yes: These

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Albert
Sören Kuklau wrote: Not quite: No matter what you choose in Opera's Identify as:, it always includes Opera/version in the user agent string. Helge Hielscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... gavin long wrote: For reference, Opera has 0.4%

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Travis Crump wrote: snip-- http://www.abit.com.tw/ bad browser sniffing, it is pretending that Mozilla is NS4 which is bad. Mozilla is not compatible with NS4, it is compatible with the current standards.. It also uses layers which is also very bad.

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Sören Kuklau
Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... This is the heart of the matter. Yes, it is. I think that most of use here would accept that we are engaged in a conflict with M$. Concerning operating systems, there's Mac OS and Linux against M$'s

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Sören Kuklau
Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... And how many search out the Opera part of the user agent? Some people ID IE by looking for Mozilla/4.0 (compatible...) and ignore everything else. Whether that's true or not, this behaviour would be

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Geoff
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:57:26 +, Sören Kuklau wrote: snip And I appreciate that people like you have another point of view. It's a tough matter, and I think a similar thing was in mid-98, when Apple introduced the iMac. It had no floppy drive, no SCSI, no ADB, and so on - before that,

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Sören Kuklau
Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Well, that seems an excellent analogy Soren, thanks :-) and I have learned much from this thread. I can only wish the Tech Evangelists good fortune. Yes, me too. It's an important task, and difficult

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Geoff
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:07:29 +, Sören Kuklau wrote: Even so, I am lucky enough to be able to pay for my software if I need to - I support open source because it is better not because it is cheaper - and I would willingly pay top dollar for a linux Moz-like browser that could render

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Sören Kuklau
Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I understand - just wishful-thinking on my part really. Yes, I see. What can be done is to use the engine but not use other stuff like XUL, XPFE, etc. which some consider bloat. The result would be

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that Geoff wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:46:58 +, Albert wrote: Geoff wrote: Hi, This post is *not* a complaint. I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for the developers of moz, galeon, and opera, all of which I use. I am not a fluent programmer and I do

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that JTK wrote: Geoff wrote: [snip] Thanks both to Jonas and to you Albert. As I said, I was looking for an explanation, not making a criticism, and that holds good. Even so, and speaking as someone who has invested much time and effort in ridding his business of

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-31 Thread Christopher Jahn
And it came to pass that JTK wrote: Geoff wrote: [snip] Thanks both to Jonas and to you Albert. As I said, I was looking for an explanation, not making a criticism, and that holds good. Even so, and speaking as someone who has invested much time and effort in ridding his business of

Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-30 Thread Geoff
Hi, This post is *not* a complaint. I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for the developers of moz, galeon, and opera, all of which I use. I am not a fluent programmer and I do not pretend to understand javascript. I would, however, be really grateful if someone could explain, in terms

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-30 Thread Jonas Jørgensen
Geoff wrote: Hi, This post is *not* a complaint. I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for the developers of moz, galeon, and opera, all of which I use. I am not a fluent programmer and I do not pretend to understand javascript. I would, however, be really grateful if someone

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-30 Thread Albert
Geoff wrote: Hi, This post is *not* a complaint. I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for the developers of moz, galeon, and opera, all of which I use. I am not a fluent programmer and I do not pretend to understand javascript. I would, however, be really grateful if someone could

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-30 Thread David W. Fenton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff) wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This post is *not* a complaint. I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for the developers of moz, galeon, and opera, all of which I use. I am not a fluent programmer and I do not pretend to understand javascript. I would, however, be

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-30 Thread JTK
Geoff wrote: [snip] Thanks both to Jonas and to you Albert. As I said, I was looking for an explanation, not making a criticism, and that holds good. Even so, and speaking as someone who has invested much time and effort in ridding his business of M$ products, I am left wondering about

Re: Why can't moz do what Netscape can?

2001-12-30 Thread DeMoN LaG
JTK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 30 Dec 2001: Two things: 1. Regardless of what people are telling you, it's not a standards battle. Mozilla is so poorly written that it simply dies on most pages regardless of their standardness, and the