Re: Windows: where everything is harder than it needs to be. And also broken.

2006-10-20 Thread Jeremy Stephens
Aaron J. Grier wrote: it raises the question, but doesn't beg it. http://begthequestion.info/ I know this is a little bit off topic and a little late (as I have some time and am reading threads that I've left unread for a while). But, who is so bitter about the incorrect use of 'begs the

Re: Windows: where everything is harder than it needs to be. And also broken.

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 20 Oct 2006, at 18:27, Jeremy Stephens wrote: Aaron J. Grier wrote: it raises the question, but doesn't beg it. http:// begthequestion.info/ I know this is a little bit off topic and a little late (as I have some time and am reading threads that I've left unread for a while). But,

Re: Reason 3.14159x10^8 to hate firefox

2006-10-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Martin Ebourne li...@ebourne.me.uk [2006-10-19 22:10]: Of course, that would require it to maintain a list of always blocked addresses in addition to the list of always allowed, quite a bit of extra code complexity. Or bugs. And then there's all the extra UI complexity of letting people

Re: Chromeless popups (was: Reason 3.14159x10^8 to hate firefox)

2006-10-20 Thread David King
What's hateful is that there's no easy way to override this from the UI -- sometimes, whatever the script writer's opinion, *I* want the UI elements, and I want a button somewhere obvious on such windows that gives me back all of the browser chrome, no questions asked. So you want the ability

Re: Chromeless popups

2006-10-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* jrod...@hate.spamportal.net jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2006-10-20 00:35]: So you want the ability open up a new window without the familiar interface, that has an intuitive element to return the interface. Precisely. I think our ideas of intuitve and obvious diverged somewhere in the

Re: Chromeless popups (was: Reason 3.14159x10^8 to hate firefox)

2006-10-20 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On Oct 19, 2006, at 23:31, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * jrod...@hate.spamportal.net jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2006-10-19 22:15]: Create new window. Stupid, but I can see the rationale. Create new window without the normal url bar? Whaat? Without _Menus_? Without *scrollbars*, regardless of