Re: The Linux GUI crisis

2004-04-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Gil Freund wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > In http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability , John Gruber > > explains why (in his opinion), Free Software is destined to always suck > > in terms of GUI quality. > > I don't know if he is right or not.But I'd like to wear my

Re: The Linux GUI crisis

2004-04-06 Thread Gil Freund
Omer Zak wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Gil Freund wrote: [snip] CUPS (the original example given) is an foss project from a company that make a parallel commercial product. It has a licensing cash flow and therefor has money not related only to "support and service". The same is true of Mozilla, Open

Using W3C standard and ignoring IE?

2004-04-06 Thread Amir Hardon
During the last time the evangelism for using W3C standards is growing. But there is a big problem with writing fully standard pages, especially when using DOM: The fact that the most popular(and ugly) browser don't support these standards. A web page written by the standard probably won't work a

Re: Using W3C standard and ignoring IE?

2004-04-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Amir Hardon wrote: Any way after spilling my heart, here is my actual problem: I can't persuade most of my friends using mozilla because they cannot view their favorite sites, and webmasters don't want to invest resources on making their sites mozilla compatible because mozilla's market share is

Re: Using W3C standard and ignoring IE?

2004-04-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Amir Hardon wrote: > [--- snipped lament about difference between IE and W3C standards ---] > > > By joining [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/w3c/ This problem is not specific to Israel. Are there international resources fo

Re: Using W3C standard and ignoring IE?

2004-04-06 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2004/04/06 16:48, Amir Hardon wrote: > A great example for this issue is the W3C DOM standard addEventListener > function, which isn't implemented in the popular browser. The popular > workaround for this is checking whether addEventListener exist and if not > using attachEvent (Which is a mi

printing hebrew from mozilla

2004-04-06 Thread Noam Meltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I know it is a long discussed thread, but I still have some questions about it: 1. I managed to make xprint work one time and it worked nice. (except for colors not being perfect) Lately it stopped working and I have no idea why. It seems like mozil

Re: ADSL connection through BEZEQ

2004-04-06 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On Tuesday 06 April 2004 20:58, Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "mavram" * "_my_password_" > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" * "_my_password_" wrong... [EMAIL PROTECTED] i will assume your passord is correct. -- diego, kde-il translation team Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: ADSL connection through BEZEQ

2004-04-06 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:58:07PM +0200, Avraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > After experiencing the wonders of apt-get on the (connected) computer at > work, I decided that it is high time to connect my home Debian system to > the internet. > I have a working connection tp bezeqint.net (worki

THANKS!

2004-04-06 Thread David Howard
I'm not sure who is responsible for the changes to the IGLU FTP site, but I'd like to thank them for their consideration. I was in the middle of downloading the third of three .iso files of Mandrake (Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD3.i586.iso) when the connection was broken, and I was g

Re: THANKS!

2004-04-06 Thread linux-il
David Howard wrote: *AFTER* the last logged-in connection is terminated? WTF do I now do with my partial d/l of the .iso? Find another source for it and use FTP's "reget" to continue the download? --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail t

Re: The Linux GUI crisis

2004-04-06 Thread Aaron
my 2cents, >From my side, I see that much of the gui hype is just that. Very few users design the gui's out there. The idea of a gui that would change according to the user is a great idea. (everytime a user says *##* when a gui gets you angry. Most gui's are based on someones cute or neat idea,