Turtle on 24/10/2006 at 22:32
Honestly, I don't care that you got it early, I saw it posted yesterday, too.
I care because I'm being talked to like I'm a fucking retard because I corrected a factual error.
(love the built in spell checker, BTW)
Mortal Monkey on 24/10/2006 at 22:42
Quote Posted by Vigil
Oh, and you have to explicitly turn the Phishing filter on, which I presume is what you mean by sending URLs to Microsoft.
In that case I shall reconsider. I do want better support for CSS and CSS2, but I fear what advertisers are going to do with that "fixed-positioning" thing you mentioned. Hopefully we won't be seeing the equivalent of those semi-transparent flash popups that hover ominously over your webpages.
I also disagree on PNG transparancy. Not to mention popups, it provides a sloppy way of seamlessly merging an image with the background, rather than 'baking' the background into the image. And in the cases where you want to do fancy effects such as moving transparent images around (IE for an online puzzle game), you're usually better off with a Java applet or Flash anyway.
Jeshibu on 24/10/2006 at 22:47
Quote Posted by Turtle
Honestly, I don't care that you got it early, I saw it posted yesterday, too.
I care because I'm being talked to like I'm a fucking retard because I corrected a factual error.
Depends on your definition of 'released', but hey, let's not argue about that.
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(love the built in spell checker, BTW)
Me too. I'm hoping for an extension that will allow me to quickly switch the spellchecking language, but that's a minor niggle as I rarely use anything other than English on the internet.
Vigil on 24/10/2006 at 23:07
Quote Posted by Mortal Monkey
I also disagree on PNG transparancy. Not to mention popups, it provides a sloppy way of seamlessly merging an image with the background, rather than 'baking' the background into the image. And in the cases where you want to do fancy effects such as moving transparent images around (IE for an online puzzle game), you're usually better off with a Java applet or Flash anyway.
I'd call baking the background into the image to be the sloppy equivalent of using a properly alpha'd image. Not to mention the common design situations of wanting to reuse a standard graphical device (a shadow, curve or other decoration) on a number of differently-coloured or patterned backgrounds; or overlay a translucent or oddly-shaped image onto a complex background at an arbitrary point on that background dictated by page flow, or in a fashion where the background can shift through page resizing or scrolling.
But what do I know. Maybe it was a good thing that IE's implementation of this was broken, slow, inflexible, and hilariously awkward to use until this month. It preserved us from all that sloppiness.
Aerothorn on 25/10/2006 at 00:15
Firefox wins just for the new build-in spell-checker - I can't believe no one thought of this before. No more (sp?) for me!
Aja on 25/10/2006 at 00:18
Firefox 2 looks good so far.
Does anyone know why new versions of Firefox always remove my dictionary.com plugin? I have to keep a spare copy of the SRC file on my computer so I can replace it. Up until 2.0 (which replaced all of my plug ins), new versions of Firefox would leave all of them alone except for dictionary.com.
On the dictionary.com website, the link to a search plugin is broken.
Did Mozilla and dictionary.com have some sort of disagreement?
Strangeblue on 25/10/2006 at 04:31
Dictionary.com can be a bit... unreliable about the accuracy of its definitions. Webster.com is a little bit better standardized. I wish it didn't bugger off and show me only one definition at a time, though.
I can't wait until Firefox is updated on the Apple... Oooo... happy apple! (my computer is practically drooling for it--if computers could drool.)
Chimpy Chompy on 25/10/2006 at 06:07
Quote Posted by Mortal Monkey
but I fear what advertisers are going to do with that "fixed-positioning" thing you mentioned.
I've been looking forward to MS fixing fixed, as I have to use some workaround I barely understand to reproduce it in my own (amateurish) projects, but you have a point there.
ignatios on 25/10/2006 at 09:48
Quote Posted by Strangeblue
I can't wait until Firefox is updated on the Apple... Oooo... happy apple! (my computer is practically drooling for it--if computers could drool.)
It was released at the same time, non? I grabbed it last night and it's swell!
Omega on 25/10/2006 at 11:21
I use (
http://answers.com/) it shows results of a couple websites at once. Very neat.
