"Michael Stover" <michael.r.sto...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1004.1292372981.21107.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > Complaining the editor isn't like vi just makes me roll my eyes. Few > would > really want it to be. However, again, there are vi clones in javascript, > if > one were really wanted it. >
Text editors that rely on JavaScript are abominations, period. > I can go anywhere and get my email, including the computers at the Y, the > library, from behind the firewall at work, and on my sister's computer > when > I go visit her for Christmas. I won't have to install anything to be able > to do so. > I use Outlook Express for my email. Anytime I'm away from one of my own computers, I can use the shitty web interface that my server provides. But then when I'm back on my computer, get to use a client that doesn't blow. Look, look -> There's my cake, and I'm eating it! Besides, no-install software is entirely possible without resorting to the web browser abomination. The *only* reason they aren't already ubiquitous is because people keep irrationally clinging to all this moronic "web app" bullshit. > I really don't think the complaints about the browser platform and > javascript have much validity anymore. They used to. But I think those > days are gone, and I think it's like the whole "java is slow" phenomenon. > It takes a ridiculously long time for most people to change their > perception > of things once they've had a bad experience. > I hear the "Java's fast now, really!" a lot. I don't buy it. If Java's no longer slow, I'd like to see some video codecs (mp4/ogm/xvid/etc...) written in Java that actually compare to systems-language ones that people actually use, and without the code being twice as convoluted as the systems-language ones. Plus, JS is undeniably slow on my web browser: FF2. And I'll happily give up FF2 exactly when someone comes out with a web browser that does the following, and without fucking something else up in the process: - No unified forward/back buttons - No cluttered, crayola-colored address bar and dropdown. - No skin. - No useless always-resident processes. - No invisi-text for light-on-dark systems. - NoScript or an equivalent. - AdBlock Plus or an equivalent. - BetterPrivacy or an equivalent. - TabMixPlus or an equivalent.
