Re: Annoying Things about 0.9.9

2002-03-25 Thread Stuart Ballard
should *do* about this - I've always just chalked it up as the cost of having a secure password. Perhaps an option to always prompt for the password when you first start mozilla? Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer NetReach - Internet Solutions (215) 283-2300, ext. 126 http://www.netreach.com/

Re: Annoying Things about 0.9.9

2002-03-25 Thread Stuart Ballard
Martin Fritsche wrote: Stuart Ballard wrote: I'm not sure what I think Mozilla should *do* about this - I've always just chalked it up as the cost of having a secure password. Perhaps an option to always prompt for the password when you first start mozilla? Stuart. Preferences

Re: U.S. Export Reestrictions

2002-03-21 Thread Stuart Ballard
of Lords and the theoretical veto power of the Queen if you really wanted to). Of course, Christianity isn't mandated in the UK, but it is the state religion. That's about the closest you can get to a meaningful answer to what is dangerously close to a meaningless question. Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard

Re: It's official AOL+Gecko

2002-03-15 Thread Stuart Ballard
going to make the distinction between 7.0 with Netscape Gecko versus 7.0? When was the last AOL version that didn't end in .0, I wonder? Perhaps AOL should trademark all version numbers ending in point oh... ;) Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer NetReach - Internet Solutions (215) 283-2300, ext

Re: beonex.com or beonex.org?

2002-03-14 Thread Stuart Ballard
(with the jar files removed entirely) and patchmaker sitting in the same place as the beonex binary, all ready to go. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet Solutions 215.283.2300, ext. 126 www.fast.net

Re: Mozilla .99

2002-03-12 Thread Stuart Ballard
to do it by hand anyway you might as well just run the commands yourself. It's simpler that way anyway. And if you're doing it by hand all the dirname and $dist_bin stuff becomes redundant since you *know* what the directories are called. Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet

Re: AOL to Dump IE in favor of Mozilla

2002-03-12 Thread Stuart Ballard
is saying should this turn out to be true. If an netscape person who *works* on gecko hasn't had it confirmed to him, it seems somewhat unlikely that anything is set in stone yet. Or maybe Blake does know, but just isn't allowed to *say* so yet... Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet

Re: Mozilla .9.9 released for Windows

2002-03-07 Thread Stuart Ballard
even care, you'll notice that Gerv *wasn't* agreeing with you: he implied pretty clearly that you don't understand the release-numbering system. A correction from someone with an mozilla.org email address ought to be enough for you, oughtn't it? Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET

Re: Bugzilla and search engines

2002-02-22 Thread Stuart Ballard
slightly wrong, but it's something like that. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet Solutions 215.283.2300, ext. 126 www.fast.net

Re: Patch Maker version 2.0beta1 released

2002-02-19 Thread Stuart Ballard
wrong! :) Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet Solutions 215.283.2300, ext. 126 www.fast.net

Re: Patch Maker version 2.0beta1 released

2002-02-18 Thread Stuart Ballard
has changed incompatibly (as it seems to have now) it might be a good time to require all new versions of patchmaker to ignore lines they don't understand, so that this later change *won't* be an incompatible one. Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet Solutions 215.283.2300, ext

Re: MOz 0.9.8

2002-02-01 Thread Stuart Ballard
hasn't started yet. Either way they *probably* won't be based on 0.9.8 - although I could be proven wrong. Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet Solutions 215.283.2300, ext. 126 www.fast.net

Re: What programming languages does Netscape use to program Navigator/Communicatior v6?

2002-01-28 Thread Stuart Ballard
the people asking *intelligent* questions first, rather than the people demonstrating nothing but laziness and still somehow expecting people to drop everything and respond. Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet Solutions 215.283.2300, ext. 126 www.fast.net

Re: Some questions about the future Moz/NN6

2002-01-25 Thread Stuart Ballard
the classic theme. Wait a week or so :) Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet Solutions 215.283.2300, ext. 126 www.fast.net

Re: Would a Less-zilla be faster ?

2002-01-17 Thread Stuart Ballard
Well gee, look at that. 5 replies full of facts, and JTK replies only to a (admittedly justifiable) personal attack in a subthread. Wanna take bets that he *will* respond to this, but *won't* go back and respond to any of the 5 previous fact-laden posts? Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard

Re: Would a Less-zilla be faster ?

2002-01-16 Thread Stuart Ballard
it? There's plenty of other things to work on, as you admit. Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet Solutions 215.283.2300, ext. 126 www.fast.net

Re: Patchmaker question

2002-01-16 Thread Stuart Ballard
/local/bin/pm is not executable. Try chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pm. Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard, Programmer FASTNET - Internet Solutions 215.283.2300, ext. 126 www.fast.net

Re: spoofing user agent string - old post - need some help please

2001-06-25 Thread Stuart Ballard
George Wright wrote: when I edit, add the line given above, save it and start moz, it hasn't worked. checking the file, it seems the addition has been overwritten - does mozilla overwrite this on startup? It overwrites it on *exit* - was mozilla running when you made the change? The

Re: New IE6.0 Build out

2001-06-22 Thread Stuart Ballard
JTK wrote: jesus X wrote: JTK wrote: Huh? You mean where your Favorites are on the left side of the screen? That's been in IE forever. Yeah, but the Mozilla Sidebar is MUCH more than just a bookmarks pane. No, it's little more, and not executed as well (eg, the IE ones

Re: Static Build

2001-06-21 Thread Stuart Ballard
JTK wrote: Static build refers to a build in which some of the DLLs (or shared objects if you're on one of those 'alternative' OSs) are built as static libraries and are statically linked into the program. What this does is effectively make the library an intergral part of the program,

Re: Will Mozilla download Netscape Webmail for offline reading

2001-06-21 Thread Stuart Ballard
JTK wrote: That's not true at all; you're making broad statements without providing any support. Contributors to Mozilla can work on whatever they want. Perhaps an AIM-compatible IM client? Yeah, didn't think so. http://jabberzilla.mozdev.org/ - an AIM (and ICQ, and Yahoo, and IRC,

Re: 0.9.2 branch and post-0.9.2 trunk plans

2001-06-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
Chris Waterson wrote: Christopher Blizzard wrote: Getting a= hurts (probably you -- drivers@ -- more than me!), but I think it did make a positive difference. snip I'll be a bit sorry to see it go. My $0.02. aolMe too!/aol Admittedly I've only ever made one patch to Mozilla, but it

Re: MS and Open Source

2001-06-18 Thread Stuart Ballard
RV wrote: ... an one more time Microsoft is caught with its pants down with their latest FreeBSD (OPEN SOURCE) latest fiasco/embarrassment. I wonder about how many lines of GPLed code might illegally reside in MS products as well.. After all their EULA makes it illegal to

Re: Why bother with Netscape 6.1 when there's mozilla?

2001-06-14 Thread Stuart Ballard
Fernando Cassia wrote: Which brinds one question: why didn't Netscape just call the Mozilla project Open Netscape and the browser Open Netscape. So mozilla=netscape=netscape. Because Netscape is a trademarked name and they want to have some assurance as to what products get associated with

Bugzilla

2001-06-12 Thread Stuart Ballard
There is a note on bugzilla saying: Bugzilla will be unavailable on Tuesday, June 12 for up to two hours starting at 6pm for a system upgrade But there's no mention of what timezone this 6pm refers to. I'm assuming that this is in Pacific Time, but since Mozilla has contributors from all over

Re: mostfreq deprecated

2001-06-10 Thread Stuart Ballard
Gervase Markham wrote: You might like to update D's dup count as well, but you can't, because the only place in C where it's recorded that it's a dup of D is the comments, and parsing comments is icky and horrible. AH. This is where my logic went wrong - I had assumed that it was easy to

Re: mostfreq deprecated

2001-06-08 Thread Stuart Ballard
Gervase Markham wrote: 2) Couldn't this be accomplished more cleanly by adding a num_dups field to the bug itself? No, because if something is un-dupped you get trouble. Why doesn't doing this just involve the reverse of the algorithm for dupping: subtract a.num_dups+1 from b.num_dups?

Re: Have you seen this (netscape abandons browser software)

2001-06-07 Thread Stuart Ballard
Jesse Houwing wrote: Netscape: We're in media, not browser business now Much as I'd love to see some of the Netscape employees here comment on what this means for the amount of resources NS/AOL/TW will put into Mozilla, I'd be surprised if the answer would be anything other than we can't

Re: More top-secret BS commits with hidden bug reports

2001-06-06 Thread Stuart Ballard
Rip Toren wrote: It seems to me it has just become more obscure. The real problem seems to be the server on port 25 accepting the mail for forwarding. That input could come from a perl script, a telnet, or a custom program as well as Mozilla. Maybe the connection should be blocked in Telnet

Re: mostfreq deprecated

2001-06-05 Thread Stuart Ballard
that other people in this thread have been asking for (and also making duplicates.cgi VERY easy to implement...) Stuart. -- Stuart Ballard Programmer NetReach, Inc.: Single-Source Provider of Internet Solutions One eCommerce Plaza 124 South Maple Street Ambler, PA 19002 215.283-2300, x126

Re: Running a global installation of Mozilla as non-root on Linux

2001-05-31 Thread Stuart Ballard
Chris Howells wrote: I though that the procedure was like as follows: untar Mozilla into /usr/local/mozilla Run Mozilla once as root to allow it to set itself up Mozilla should now be able to run as a non-root user by running /usr/local/mozilla I can't verify that this works with

Re: FAQ re Code Review and Super Review

2001-05-30 Thread Stuart Ballard
Mitchell Baker wrote: Got questions about the super-review process - what it's for, how it works, what to expect? You may find answers in this new Code Review FAQ. It's not yet linked to from other docs, but it will be shortly. That FAQ is great! I have a specific question that's vaguely

Helper apps horked (0.9 with old profile)

2001-05-24 Thread Stuart Ballard
At home, I'm using 0.9 with helper apps quite successfully. My profile at home was freshly created with 0.9. At work, I have a profile that's been around since maybe M18 or before, using 0.8, 0.8.1 and 0.9. Helper apps don't seem to work at all on this setup - the ones I had set up previously

Re: OOF TOPIC Re: Right-click problem

2001-05-14 Thread Stuart Ballard
Christopher Jahn wrote: And it came to pass that Stuart Ballard wrote: Christopher Jahn wrote: Call me a neanderthal, but WHAT'S WRONG WITH A GOOD OLD FASHINED MECHANICAL EJECT BUTTON, THAT WORKS EVEN IF THE COMPUTER SHUTS DOWN? I don't know, but that's what drives me crazy about

Re: OOF TOPIC Re: Right-click problem

2001-05-09 Thread Stuart Ballard
Christopher Jahn wrote: Call me a neanderthal, but WHAT'S WRONG WITH A GOOD OLD FASHINED MECHANICAL EJECT BUTTON, THAT WORKS EVEN IF THE COMPUTER SHUTS DOWN? I don't know, but that's what drives me crazy about the CD drive on my PC... which isn't a mac. Stuart.

Re: MOZILLA HAS BUILT-IN SPYWARE - VOTE AGAINST IT HERE !

2001-04-25 Thread Stuart Ballard
Peter Lairo wrote: It seems that Mozilla now contains code that copies each url you visit into a OS readable textfile that can then be read by anyone on the internet (particulary Media Matrix). This is crap. It means it can be read by any software ON YOUR MACHINE. The textfield isn't

Re: show toolbars as icons only in userChrome.css?

2001-04-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
David Hallowell wrote: Scott Tran wrote: Stuart, there is a line but it doesn't remove the text from the Get Message or Print in Mail as long as the back forward and Print in Navigator if it is turned on basically any icon with a menu nwill not get its text removed. I suggest you

show toolbars as icons only in userChrome.css?

2001-04-19 Thread Stuart Ballard
I can probably figure this out for myself if I investigate hard enough but I'm posting first because I'm sure that somebody has done this before me and can just tell me the way to do it. I assume there is something you can put in your userChrome.css file that will set display:none on the text

Re: Happy 3rd Birthday Mozilla :-)

2001-04-18 Thread Stuart Ballard
JTK wrote: Stuart Ballard wrote: The chain of decision did not go "How can we make a browser that's skinnable - I know, let's use XML for our user interface". It went "Ooh - since we're using XML for our user interface, we can make it skinnable!". I don't bel

Re: Happy 3rd Birthday Mozilla :-)

2001-04-18 Thread Stuart Ballard
JTK wrote: So let me get this straight: You're saying it's simply a matter of degree? That a file save dialog is so 'semantically' similar across platforms that wrapping the native one makes sense, but that a *text box* is so wildly different that it doesn't? Or a ***scroll bar***?!?!

Re: Happy 3rd Birthday Mozilla :-)

2001-04-16 Thread Stuart Ballard
JTK wrote: Well, that only brings up two more questions: 1. Why does Mozilla not need such control over the open/save dialog? Why is this not skinnable like literally everything else is? Doesn't that violate the whole design concept of "skinnability"? Skinnability was not the "design

Re: Mozilla's icons

2001-04-04 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: While Beonex efforts are all well and good. They are targeting "only" the "Windows" Market. I've been in touch with them and the have stated unequivocally. "We have no interest at this time in developing a Mac version of Beonex". Utter crap. I've seen

Re: Mozilla and Netscape 6

2001-03-27 Thread Stuart Ballard
Daniel Veditz wrote: No, I don't (and giving out data might run afoul of our privacy statement anyway) -- I just noticed it while tracking down crashes. A surprising number, though. Perhaps some of these were people who fell afoul of the fact that for a significant part of a day, Netscape's

Re: Mozilla and Netscape 6

2001-03-26 Thread Stuart Ballard
"benway.com" wrote: I've got a quandry. I loath the "commercial" N6 is going to be. I love what Mozilla is and will be. I've been using Moz nightlies since the beginning. What I'm wondering is: Will I be able to settle in with Mozilla and STAY with it? I don't want to convert

Re: Is there a timetable of Mozilla? What happened when?

2001-03-13 Thread Stuart Ballard
Frank Hecker wrote: Garth Wallace wrote: Doesn't "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" cover the decision to make Moz open source? Not really; it just discusses the aftermath of the decision. Is this a new version of CatB? I thought that esr's article *inspired* the release of the code, and

Re: Help me delete a profile!

2001-02-26 Thread Stuart Ballard
Gervase Markham wrote (on the topic of "qa" being interpreted as "QA"): hahahahahahhaa this is a good one, I'll remember it. I wouldn't laugh. Many people make the same mistake. That's why the new version will be called ".quality". :-) Hmm. I didn't think of this during the original

Re: Help me delete a profile!

2001-02-26 Thread Stuart Ballard
Mark Anderson wrote: Stuart Ballard wrote: Hmm. I didn't think of this during the original discussions on newsgroup renaming, but suddenly I can imagine the new ".quality" group getting posts like: "Netscape is such poor quality!!!" How about ".

Re: onClick and Visible problems in NN

2001-02-07 Thread Stuart Ballard
Robbie wrote: span id="winloc" style="position:relative; visibility:hide" form name="winform" img src="gifs/seeme.gif" select name="seloc" size="1" onChange="javascript:warp()" option value="bestsellers.asp"best sellers/option option value="boxes.asp"boxes/option /select /form /span

Re: Password Protected Profiles - VOTE HERE !!! You knowyouwant this feature!

2000-12-18 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Simon P. Lucy" wrote: It is an optimal solution if you define optimal to be the best possible cost versus benefit. Most users use win9x which has virtually NO "Permission management". Anyhow, the password would be far from not doing "anything". 99% of unintentional or novice snooping is

Re: mozilla.org for users?

2000-12-11 Thread Stuart Ballard
Gervase Markham wrote: No. Because Newsgroups are a "pull" mechanism, you can't do something like this. Hence the planned "auto-add-FAQ-URL" magic for some of the new newsgroups. Could we also do something inside the robo-moderator along the lines of checking whether the poster has posted

Re: About minimum platform requirements.

2000-12-08 Thread Stuart Ballard
jesus X wrote: I frequently see people with 200 MHz Pentiums (and even the occasional 486) complain about Mozilla (among other apps) running slowly on their machine. Ditto with people who have 16 or 32 megs of RAM. I don't mean to offend, but expecting modern apps to run on hardware that is

Re: About minimum platform requirements.

2000-12-07 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Sebastian Späth" wrote: Yes, it is indeed a controversal statement and I don't agree with it (and not only because my personal computer falls into that 233 Mhz category :-)). My computer is 600Mhz with 128Mb, and I *still* agree. An app should use the amount of memory / resources

Re: new to Mozilla

2000-12-05 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: Netscape Communicator has an option to turn this on or off. So Netscape can inflict this on readers at the other end. Its easily found in Preferences. I've left it off because of the experience I've had with it. I'm not sadistic like that. Have you tried

Re: new to Mozilla

2000-12-05 Thread Stuart Ballard
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote: I've set preferences to use Quoted Printable and sent a message both in HTML and Plaintext. I've also turned it back off and sent a test in html and plaintext . No difference in show Full header information show this on all my test post