Re: Should mozilla accept backslashes in URL's?

2001-07-10 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Lock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anonymous wrote: Very often backslashes get incorporated into URLs on many websites, causing links to work in Internet Explorer, but to fail in mozilla. Mozilla already converts backslashes to forward slashes, at least on

Re: Anti-aliased fonts

2001-04-11 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Eric Hanson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if mozilla is going to do antialiased fonts? I read this article: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/981746971/index_html and was just curious. I looked through bugzilla but didn't find any mention of

Re: Mozilla's icons

2001-04-02 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Robert Ennis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank goodness for a voice from the world of average users. The forgotten ones. The silent majority. Without them all of this is self gratification, if you know what I mean... And you are apparently oblivious to the fact

Re: Mozilla and Netscape 6

2001-03-27 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mark Anderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Ballard wrote: Oh well. 6.5 will wow everyone. I hope so. Even C|net, which originally gave N6 a good review (and then turned full circle and said it was terrible) is touting IE 6 as possibly the last nail in

Re: Mozilla's icons

2001-03-26 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "jesus X" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I wonder if it's Mozilla's color, or his cute design that endears him to us. As a compromise, I'd vote to take the classic green Mozilla, paint him red, and use that. How about it? He might object in the short term,

Re: Link problem

2001-02-27 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Gervase Markham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that if the page is broken then it's the fault of the webmaster who created the page and Mozilla should tell the user that there is an error in page and tell more about the error and to contact webmaster of the

Re: Help with bugzilla

2001-02-13 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Asa Dotzler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Braden McDaniel wrote: snip Shoot the messenger, why don't you? Asa, I really don't think I could have labelled my posting as sarcasm any more clearly. Do you *really* think that people who want

Re: Help with bugzilla

2001-02-11 Thread Braden McDaniel
on number of votes per product. * Give bugs three vote states: for, against, and neutral. * Users can change their vote on a bug at any time (just as it is now). * You are automatically registered as "for" bugs you file. * When a bug is resolved DUPLICATE, its votes transfer to the bug

Re: layers

2001-02-09 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mark Anderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Braden McDaniel wrote: Web developers are mad because they have had to deal with the clusterfuck that is Netscape 4.x for a few years now, and in exchange for their loyal support of that platform, Net

Re: layers

2001-02-07 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mark Bitterling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Braden, it IS the web developers fault when they develop non-standard HTML web sites. Whose fault is it that those misfeatures were there to be (ab)used? Blame Netscape, blame Microsoft... But the customers are just

Re: layers

2001-02-07 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mark Anderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: All of this is well and good the question hasn't been answered what exactly to do layers do why tey are so easy to do and why because they were so easy to do did W3C decide they were to

Re: layers

2001-02-02 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Gervase Markham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't work? The two-facedness of the web developer community is amazing. "Standards!" they cry. "We only want to write stuff once!" they cry. We give them standards, and then they moan that their non-standard stuff

Re: XPCOM.org?

2001-01-25 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Rick Parrish" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming that Netscape/AOL has trademarked XPCOM. I doubt it, and I doubt they could if they wanted to. It's too generic. (If Microsoft had been able to trademark "COM", don't you think they'd have sued over dilution by

Re: Newsgroup Renaming: Update

2000-12-11 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Gervase Markham" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's more than democracy going on here. Largely it comes down to making a convincing case to the PTB. Is that me? If so, what does it stand for? ;-) hopes he didn't mean PHB Powers That Be. And yes, you're one

Re: netscape 6 and colors

2000-12-05 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article 90i1gp$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Michael Lambert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its gotta be the browser... the reason the page isnt validating is because there is javascript embedded all over the place in the page... the validator wants all the html tags contained within the javascript to

Re: Netscape 6 and MS Intellimouse

2000-12-01 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Robert O'Callahan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Robert P. Krajewski" wrote: Perhaps people need to stop looking to Netscape as the place to get a browser that integrates with their OS of choice. Instead, separate Gecko-hosting applications will need to be written

Re: file:/// as first part of local computer/network link

2000-11-30 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Fredrick R. Kenniston III" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a fairly simple and straight forward explanation on why "file:///" is used, is it a Windows network protocol or HTTP protocol or what. It is the file URL scheme. Read section 3.10 of this

Re: Newsgroup Renaming Part 2

2000-11-27 Thread Braden McDaniel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I can't say I've ever heard developers say such as above, but I've tried to use software created by developers that didn't think about end Users. smile You seem unusually bitter about it. I would have