Comments on: Comment denominator

By: skeptigirl

skeptigirl — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:54:00 +0000

I posted on this blog (different topic) and it didn’t show up on the forum. And I have a different name here but the same e-mail. Guess I’ll wait for the system to run the bugs out before worrying about it.

By: Irishman

Irishman — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:34:13 +0000

Sticks, it shouldn’t cause any issues. I don’t know how he’s converting old comments over. From as soon as he sorts out the bugs, the new comments on the blog will be on the board, and use your board username.

By: Sticks

Sticks — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:00:35 +0000

But I use a different e-mail address for the Blog as I do for the BAUT forum, will that cause any issues?

By: Aerik

Aerik — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:59:32 +0000

I have to add something. “You can customize the interface however you want it” on Mozilla products as well, in fact, to a greater extent than Opera. Via CSS and Javascript (Stylish, GreaseMonkey, Usercontent.css, Userchrome.css, User.js, themes) you can change everything about how the browser looks and functions.

Heck, allow me to let you in on some secrets. Thanks to some GreaseMonkey userscripts, the partnership of CoComment.com and Haloscan.com, the CoComment extension, firefox’s form/password/name storing, Every comment page is as good as a forum, and every forum is even richer than before, and so is blogging. Firefox even makes the internet work better.

Top that.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:17:35 +0000

BAUT registration is what you want, so if you’re already registered there, you’re golden.

By: Aerik

Aerik — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:08:50 +0000

There are several extensions that allow you to recover tabs and sessoins upon crash, BB, if only you just look for them. Such as this search for which I’ve altered the URI so that you get 50 results per page. As for why this may be an important issue, that kind of crash-recovery was seen by the Mozilla developers as a potential risk for privacy violation. Mozilla prides itself on the fact that Firefox can serve as a kiosk browser, which is made obvious by the fact that they have a branch of extensions under that specific heading (kiosk).

As for the search features, Mozilla Suite/Firefox/Thunderbird/Seamonkey are all fully capable of this behavior and more. In fact if you look in sites such as tech-recipes.com, lifehack.org and lifehacker.com, you can find instructions how to easily build your own search plugins!

And finally, compared to the heap of unneccessary and non-standards-compliant code involved in IE, the difference in disk sizes between open-source and standards-compliant browsers is not a significant issue unless you have a really crappy/small harddrive and little RAM.

By: BB

BB — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:48:53 +0000

I don’t care about how fast it loads pages, opera is just so much more convenient. You can customize the interface however you want it, doing almost anything you want to it, it automatically saves your session as you go so that if say your computer crashes, the next time you open it, all the tabs that were open when it crashed are still there, open to the same page (unlike firefox, which only does that with a special tabbrowser extension, and then only when you close it and specifically tell it to save the session, never when your computer crashes). The panels and widgets are incredibly convenient, and my favourite feature: say I want to search for the bad astronomer in google: just type “g bad astronomy” into the address bar and voila. Many others are programmed into it, and others can be programmed into it (I’ve put w->wikipedia search, i->imdb search, d->dictionary.com search, t->thesaurus.com search, q->gamefaqs search and c->cia world factbook search. So, any time I want to search for something, I just type the appropriate letter and what I’m looking for into the address bar and I get what I’m looking for. So convenient! Not to mention, Opera is the smallest, fastest, browser and uses fewer resources than any other one out there.

By: Sticks

Sticks — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:39:06 +0000

So where do we register, or is our BAUT registration sufficient?

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:20:18 +0000

I was hoping to work on the problem this morning, but I couldn’t. It’s top priority for tonight.

By: PK

PK — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:09:22 +0000

That’s progress for you, Aerik…

By: Aerik

Aerik — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:53:57 +0000

Pretty pathetic that you guys have to argue over how fast pages load in your browsers. Have you forgotten just how miraculous it is that they work at all? So a page takes a few seconds to load — back in the old days you’d have to drive around to get the information you’re itching for. After that mess, the differences in speed between browsers should be seen as insignificant, but alas, it seems you three have no patience whatsoever! Naturally, our biggest concerns in browsers should be security and extensibility.

By: Deacon Barry

Deacon Barry — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:51:03 +0000

Spam’s a bitch. I was getting the “very good site” comments with links to totally unwanted sites. I toggled on the Word Verification and that seems to have stopped it for now. I presume that when a blog starts getting hits in the thousands, the spam returns?

By: gopher65

gopher65 — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:52:09 +0000

RIP the speed of IE 6. It may have been broken and insecure, but at least it didn’t take 15 seconds to load a page like Firefox and Opera. Now IE 7 (currently on RC1, so I’d imagine it should be released soon) has copied Firefox all the way. Sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. That was the only reason I used IE over firefox:P.

Stupid hackers that make it necessary to sacrfice speed for security:(.

By: amstrad

amstrad — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:03:35 +0000

GDwarf, the results of this site:

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html

show otherwise. Especially if you use windoze.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:59:55 +0000

BB & GDwarf; Careful there, you are straying into religion and politics….

Vive Le Firefox!

By: GDwarf

GDwarf — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:42:44 +0000

Ah yes, Opera, the one that takes longer then Firefox to load any sort of image.

By: BB

BB — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:40:00 +0000

Firefox? Good Browser? Pfft! Mozilla wouldn't know a good browser if you shoved it in their face. Now, Opera, there's a good browser.

By: Damien Evans

Damien Evans — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:39:32 +0000

yay, i’m loquacious!!

on a more serious note, has the bug been fixed yet?

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:21:13 +0000

Sigh.