Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 Dec 2001 06:05:22 GMT, DeMoN LaG n@a wrote: :I would blame Netscape if the code was checked in by a netscape employee :with no r/sr/a, or if the code was checked in by a netscape employee and :had r/sr/a all with @netscape.com email addresses. That would scream to :me that the change

JTK vs Common Sense

2001-12-18 Thread Emlyn Shannon
Round One... ... Fight! What do they gain out of *any* of Mozilla? It's a complete and utter failure after, what, five *years* of work, the laughingstock of the computing world, and yet they still drag the dead carcass along. And then to top it off they slap a commie star on it

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Peter Trudelle
Yes, we care. Don't confuse having different values than yours with not caring. The feature you seem to dislike so much started as numerous requests from our customers, users and reviewers. Our marketing department notified us of the strong demand for such a feature. Management ensured

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread A Martinez
Jason Kersey wrote: They integrate those widgets in the OS, so they become native. Didn't you heard something about DoJ vs MS? IE's widgets are still different than the rest of the OS's. So please, can you explain me which widgets are you talking about? I don't see anything in IE5

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Peter Trudelle wrote: Yes, we care. Don't confuse having different values than yours with not caring. The feature you seem to dislike so much started as numerous requests from our customers, users and reviewers. Our marketing department notified us of the strong demand for such a

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread David Hyatt
If you think the implementation is poor, could you file concrete bugs regarding the concerns that you have or perhaps state them here? There are AFAIK only a handful of current remaining issues with the implementation. Also, if you want the feature to have no serious issues before it's

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Simon P. Lucy
On 18/12/2001 at 00:32 Peter Trudelle wrote: Yes, we care. Don't confuse having different values than yours with not caring. The feature you seem to dislike so much started as numerous requests from our customers, users and reviewers. Our marketing department notified us of the strong

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread Daniel Veditz
Daniel Veditz wrote: Jesse Ruderman wrote: Netscape recently checked in [...] C'mon, you know how things work here. Netscape did no such thing, it was coders running amok because they thought it was neat and they could. I actually meant that in a good way. Most of the cool things in the

build own sidebars ?

2001-12-18 Thread Karsten Violka
hi mozillas, where can i find information on how to build my own sidebar ? regards karsten

build own sidebars ?

2001-12-18 Thread Karsten Violka
hi mozillas, where can i find information on how to build my own sidebar ? regards karsten

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Travis Crump
Jonathan Wilson wrote: I understand that loading favicon.ico for bookmarks is accually a good thing but why load favicon.ico on page load, what benifit does it have (other than displaying a pretty little icon in the URL bar?) It is also displayed in the title of the tab, once you have

Skin installation

2001-12-18 Thread Dennis Katsonis
I have been given some mozilla themes as a .jar file, but cant seem to find a way to install them. Anyone know how without having to install them from the site? I've already got them, just a matter of knowing where to put them. By the way, I'm running Red Hat Linux 7.1. Thanks

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Arthur
Firts of all, JTK, Who are you? When I search a number of mozilla groups for your initials (With the stable and handy mail/news client Mozilal, with a verry handy search option), it pops up a large list of criticising replies and annouying text. When I go to

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread Neil
I wrote: Since most apps see AltGr as Ctrl+Alt this means that Mozilla will quietly ignore all AltGr keystrokes, see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50255 thus temporarily rendering my patch useless :-(

Browser problem

2001-12-18 Thread John W. Funke
I just installed 9.6, previously had Netscape 6.2. Running ZoneAlarm, Norton AV. OS- Win Me When starting the browser, all I get is the msgbox Error launching browser window.no XBL binding for browser Can you help or point me to the proper NG? Thanks. John

Re: Mozilla compatible - What do you think can I do?

2001-12-18 Thread Tim Wunder
DeMoN LaG wrote: Morten Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 17 Dec 2001: Albert wrote: The only thing preventing my migration is an error message in RH 7.2 that says Warning! FAT32 support is still ALPHA! (nuisance only) and the fact that no

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread RV
JTK wrote: The... ah why the hell do I bother, nobody here cares enough about this project to put it to sleep, let alone make it good. You got that right ... nobody cares about what you think. Maybe you should be the one who should go to sleep and have a chill pill. Mozilla's failue or

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Jay Garcia
Jonathan Wilson wrote: From what I have seen with things like favicon.ico and other things not really. Accually, its probobly more like this: The engineers and coders do care about the browser and want to make it better (no, reading favicon.ico when first loading the page even if not

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread DeMoN LaG
David Hyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 18 Dec 2001: If you think the implementation is poor, could you file concrete bugs regarding the concerns that you have or perhaps state them here? There are AFAIK only a handful of current remaining issues

Re: Mozilla compatible - What do you think can I do?

2001-12-18 Thread DeMoN LaG
Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 18 Dec 2001: As someone who dual-boots (although I haven't booted into Windows for quite some time), access to a FAT32 partition is necessary. I'm surprised that RedHat 7.2 says the support is ALPHA. Linux

Re: Browser problem

2001-12-18 Thread Christian Biesinger
John W. Funke wrote: I just installed 9.6, previously had Netscape 6.2. When starting the browser, all I get is the msgbox Error launching browser window.no XBL binding for browser Run NS 6.2 again, choose either modern or classic theme, then you will be able to run Mozilla. (I suppose

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread Travis Crump
David Hyatt wrote: If you think the implementation is poor, could you file concrete bugs regarding the concerns that you have or perhaps state them here? There are AFAIK only a handful of current remaining issues with the implementation. Not that I think it is poor implementation, and I

Re: Significance of nightlies

2001-12-18 Thread Christian Biesinger
Fulvio Perini wrote: Thank you for the tip.I had forgotten about Mozillazine.It is interesting that only the 12-6 nightly allowed me to hover on the trunkated Subject in News I think it was backed out because you could not click on the tooltip to read the message, which made message

OTRe: Mozilla compatible - What do you think can I do?

2001-12-18 Thread Tim Wunder
DeMoN LaG wrote: Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 18 Dec 2001: As someone who dual-boots (although I haven't booted into Windows for quite some time), access to a FAT32 partition is necessary. I'm surprised that RedHat 7.2 says the support

Re: Browser problem

2001-12-18 Thread John Funke
Christian Biesinger wrote: John W. Funke wrote: I just installed 9.6, previously had Netscape 6.2. When starting the browser, all I get is the msgbox Error launching browser window.no XBL binding for browser Run NS 6.2 again, choose either modern or classic theme, then you will be

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Simon P. Lucy
On 18/12/2001 at 07:55 Jay Garcia wrote: Have you ever peered at File Types in your File Associations list ?? See the little icons to the left of the association ?? If you're looking for a particular file-type association you can scroll the list looking for the associated icon in the left column

Re: Skin installation

2001-12-18 Thread Daniel Veditz
Dennis Katsonis wrote: I have been given some mozilla themes as a .jar file, but cant seem to find a way to install them. Anyone know how without having to install them from the site? I've already got them, just a matter of knowing where to put them. By the way, I'm running Red Hat

Newbie questions

2001-12-18 Thread John Funke
I ran the talkback build mozilla-win32-0.9.6-stub-installer.exe The browser sez congrats, your build is older than 3 weeks, download a newer build. and dumped me into http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.6/ Now what? So I go to mozilla.org/ and click on Nightly BuildsWindows

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread Jason Mosser
Now that this thread has been posted *to death*, it is time to summarize and hopefully come to conclusions: 1) favicon.ico: not too much *good* discussion. AFAICT there is no 'official' (as per the W3) standard of indicating an icon file. I did some research on this, read on.

Re: Newbie questions

2001-12-18 Thread Travis Crump
John Funke wrote: I ran the talkback build mozilla-win32-0.9.6-stub-installer.exe The browser sez congrats, your build is older than 3 weeks, download a newer build. and dumped me into http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.6/ Now what? So I go to mozilla.org/ and

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread David Hyatt
Yes, this is one of the known issues. It's compounded by the fact that when you crash or don't cleanly exit, the entire disk cache has a tendency to flush itself on the next restart. I will probably need to ignore the expirations specified by the Web site for favicons. Most servers haven't

blinking titlebar on win2000

2001-12-18 Thread user
this may be a pretty clueless question, but why is the title bar flashing on my nightly build for windows? anthony

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Jonas Jørgensen
Peter Trudelle wrote: One benefit is that users can tell, at a glance, the current site, and which site such bookmarks came from, much faster than they could ever read the URL. They can thus browse faster and with fewer errors. Absolutely. Site/page icons is a great feature. But

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread David Hyatt
As I've said several times before, Mozilla does not spam the site on every visit, only on the first visit. It then caches information of a miss to prevent spamming the site again (and this persists across sessions), and on a hit it caches the favicon itself to prevent spamming the site again

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Jonas Jørgensen
David Hyatt wrote: Some people are even blocking Mozilla from their sites because of this! Mozilla's way of doing this spams servers much more than IE's, since Moz request favicon.ico for every visit (IE only does it when the page is bookmarked). As I've said several times before,

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread Ben Goodger
So have we. It's called the Classic Skin (if you're not using it, try View-Apply Theme-Classic). You'll notice that our native widgets actually emulate the OS widget set better than IE ;-) -Ben A Martinez wrote: So please, can you explain me which widgets are you talking about? I don't

Re: Java window betanews does not work ???????

2001-12-18 Thread Jadzia
Jonas Jørgensen wrote: Jadzia wrote: When I press the VIEW CHANGES on www.betanews.com (any of the programs ofcourse) I do not get the popup window. So java does not work correctly. But, Java applets do work. I can play java games and all.. You mean that Java*Script* does not work

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Ben Goodger
Actually he's making the case for the key usability benefit of this feature. Simon P. Lucy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On 18/12/2001 at 07:55 Jay Garcia wrote: Have you ever peered at "File Types" in your File Associations list ??See the little icons to the left of the association ??

CGI Scripting bug?

2001-12-18 Thread Tim Wunder
I use a web-based calendar called Webcal. Recently, I've run into a cgi/perl or javascript bug which causes me to have to submit calendar changes twice before they are accepted. I did not have this problem with a November 23rd build under linux, but a recent linux nightly and current Win32

Re: blinking titlebar on win2000

2001-12-18 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this may be a pretty clueless question, but why is the title bar flashing on my nightly build for windows? anthony I have encountered this, and it is very annoying since it messes up the auto-hide of the taskbar. It happens at random times and closing and

Re: Java window betanews does not work ???????

2001-12-18 Thread Jonas Jørgensen
Jadzia wrote: Jonas Jørgensen wrote: Jadzia wrote: When I press the VIEW CHANGES on www.betanews.com (any of the programs ofcourse) I do not get the popup window. So java does not work correctly. But, Java applets do work. I can play java games and all.. You mean that

Re: OTRe: Mozilla compatible - What do you think can I do?

2001-12-18 Thread Charlie in San Francisco
Tim Wunder wrote: DeMoN LaG wrote: Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 18 Dec 2001: As someone who dual-boots (although I haven't booted into Windows for quite some time), access to a FAT32 partition is necessary. I'm surprised that RedHat

Re: OTRe: Mozilla compatible - What do you think can I do?

2001-12-18 Thread Kryptolus
Charlie in San Francisco wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: DeMoN LaG wrote: Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 18 Dec 2001: As someone who dual-boots (although I haven't booted into Windows for quite some time), access to a FAT32 partition is

Re: IE chrome for mozilla

2001-12-18 Thread LemNet.com Support
Sören Kuklau wrote: Well to Taras: K-Meleon looks a bit like IE (and is intended to do so), and has the Gecko engine from Mozilla. But an IE chrome... I wonder if anyone would do such a thing (definitly not Netscape, Beonex, etc., and most likely not mozilla.org guys or volunteers).

Re: IE chrome for mozilla

2001-12-18 Thread Ian Thomas
Sören Kuklau wrote: Well to Taras: K-Meleon looks a bit like IE (and is intended to do so), and has the Gecko engine from Mozilla. But an IE chrome... I wonder if anyone would do such a thing (definitly not Netscape, Beonex, etc., and most likely not mozilla.org guys or volunteers).

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread Ian Thomas
Peter Mutsaers wrote: Well, 90% of web users (via IE) are used to backspace being used for this. While I'm not exactly an IE (nor MSFT) fan, I'd say this is one of the few things they got right in the last decennium. Please leave it in Mozilla. Backspace is an undocumented feature in IE

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Simon P. Lucy
On 18/12/2001 at 12:16 Ben Goodger wrote: Actually he's making the case for the key usability benefit of this feature. No. He was being patronising. An icon for a bookmark is not equivalent to an icon for a file type. The number of different types of file icon is quite small, and easily

Re: Mozilla logo

2001-12-18 Thread Asa Dotzler
Chocobo_greens wrote: snip all i asked was that there be a alternavive version of mozilla without the communist icons for those who wish not to have them.. or at least the option of not having them .. is that too much to ask? Your wish is my command. http://beonex.com/communicator/

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Peter Trudelle
Simon P. Lucy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> That tends to imply that it was an AOL product requirement and notnecessarily a mozilla.org one. Not imply, I was clear that this requirement came from Netscape marketing. [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> I can't see any downside to AOL

Re: Changes rushed in by Netscape

2001-12-18 Thread Travis Crump
Ian Thomas wrote: Peter Mutsaers wrote: Well, 90% of web users (via IE) are used to backspace being used for this. While I'm not exactly an IE (nor MSFT) fan, I'd say this is one of the few things they got right in the last decennium. Please leave it in Mozilla. Backspace is an

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Re: Spammage

2001-12-18 Thread Albert
Jason Fleshman wrote: Melissa 'Liss' Tyson wrote: Hi all. I'm a long-time Moz user (well long-time in the development of Mozilla) who just finally joined the mailing lists. I'm enjoying reading the lists, but I have one complaint. This email account has been up for almost a month.

Re: Newbie questions

2001-12-18 Thread Daniel Veditz
John Funke wrote: I ran the talkback build mozilla-win32-0.9.6-stub-installer.exe The browser sez congrats, your build is older than 3 weeks, download a newer build. and dumped me into http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.6/ You can happily continue using 0.9.6 if you

Re: CGI Scripting bug?

2001-12-18 Thread Tim Wunder
Tim Wunder wrote: ...You will be presented with another dialog where you must click Submit again. Um, just to clarify. You should only have to click Submit once. That's the way the November 23 linux build worked, but current builds don't. So, having to click Submit again is the bug I'm

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread David W. Fenton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Wilson) wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I understand that loading favicon.ico for bookmarks is accually a good thing but why load favicon.ico on page load, what benifit does it have (other than displaying a pretty little icon in the URL bar?) It's very handy if you're

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Jay Garcia
Simon P. Lucy wrote: On 18/12/2001 at 12:16 Ben Goodger wrote: Actually he's making the case for the key usability benefit of this feature. No. He was being patronising. An icon for a bookmark is not equivalent to an icon for a file type. The number of different types of file

Re: Do AOLTW and netscape communications corperation care about the browser?

2001-12-18 Thread Peter Trudelle
Simon P. Lucy wrote: The number of different types of file icon is quite small, and easily remembered by the user after some small amount of use. I may not be typical, but I have many more different file system icons than favicons. It also means an entirely different thing. It means I can

Re: IE chrome for mozilla

2001-12-18 Thread Sören Kuklau
H... any screenshots? Oh and is there any patch or chrome or whatever for a full Mozilla MDI Interface (yes, I know tabbrowser, but that's not true MDI... and it's not for myself.). Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sören