Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello? I don't think that should make any difference. I should be able to visit absolutely any website on the Internet without any danger to my computer or the data stored on it. Any browser which allows otherwise has a bug. Javascript is not

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thunderbird is nice that way. You can tell it to render HTML by default, and even images if they're included in the body of the e-mail, but tell it to NOT render anything which requires connections to external servers unless you click a Show Images

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-27 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Bokma wrote: Chris Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Bokma wrote: Chris Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [HTML] It can be made much faster. There will always be a delay since messages have to be downloaded, but with a fast connection

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-26 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Bokma wrote: Chris Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Bokma wrote: Additionally, a user interface operating inside an HTML renderer can NEVER be as fast as a native-code user interface with only the e-mail message itself passed through

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ... and generally these web based message boards (i.e. forums I assume you mean) have none of the useful tools that Usenet offers and are much, much slower. [snip] Arrgh, I *emphatically* *hate* Web-based-(almost

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Bokma wrote: [snip] usage consists of downloading your e-mail. When using a Webmail service, your bandwidth usage consists of downloading the message, PLUS the entire user interface. Not necessary when using (i)frames + cache True. Perhaps