JeffM wrote:
Doug Fisher wrote:
I wish SM could figure get on more compliant lists
- or figure out a way to work around this.
What I wish is that people would stop
blaming a browser that works PERFECTLY on properly-build sites
when that browser encounters a site built by an incompetent bozo
who should be doing a job that includes using the phrase
"Do you want fries with that?".
The problem is NOT the browser.
Contact the jackass who can't built a proper Web page.
Direct your bile at the moron who obviously
doesn't do proper testing on the crap pages he produces.
Err, contact, perhaps, a commenter who can get his verb tenses right?
And, there is NO perfectly built browser, doesn't exist. Much as I love
Moz sw and SeaMonkey, no, not perfectly built, hardly so.
Perfection in any aspect of life is, at best, illusive, at worst, a
fool's errand.
Browsers? Well, SM does lots of things well, many things better than
the competition. All things perfectly? Hardly. And I'm a huge
supporter.
If you're going to be an advocate for SM you need to get specific. Does
SM actually perform better on the given (at-issue) issue than others?
Or not? If not, well, then criticism might be the best road rather than
blind support.
Stop making blanket statements. SM has flaws (all human-made products
do) so, for credibility's sake, it's important that you (we) support our
claims with real-world accountability, not some knee-jerk wish-list support.
One thing that Moz-bases apps, for me, have had is a credibility over
time and versions. To support that without suspicion is non-productive,
even destructive.
Be suspicious. Test. Comment. Post real-world issues. Post Bug
reports. Etc.
Just sitting back and saying: "Oooo! I love it!!!" doesn't cut it. It
may do more damage than help.
Here's a real-world scenario.
My SM freezes. While typing an email/message. While browsing.
Doesn't do it in Safe Mode. Doesn't do it in a new/bare profile.
There is no easy way to compare those against each other.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were?
Yes, I've created new profiles. But, I have hundreds of customizations
(outside of extensions and plugins) of the UI and through the
about:config interface. And no way to compare them. I do about:config
and can't export the result in any way. That is just stupid.
If I could, I could import the different profiles' about:config into
Excel and slice and dice it and find differences. As it exists now? No
way to do it that I can see. Silly. The data exists. It is displayed
on the screen. Why not let me take the data and massage it? I might
just find something that enlightens the devs.
But, no, here I sit with not mechanism that allows me to compare
profiles/profile data.
Ok, done bitching. For now.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
_______________________________________________
support-seamonkey mailing list
support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
