Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-04-01 Thread Chris Ilias
On 12-04-01 8:21 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 12-03-31 3:35 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: It would seem that someone feels that they can't defend the lack of choice *OR* explain why can't/shouldn't be fixed, so they just keep pretending the issue doesn't exist. Bill, that is bor

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-04-01 Thread David E. Ross
On 4/1/12 5:34 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Rufus wrote: >> Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: Philip TAYLOR wrote: > Despite > having been a subscriber to this mailing list for quite > some time, I have no recollection of the Seamonkey team > ever saying "We ar

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chris Ilias wrote: On 12-03-31 3:35 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Daniel wrote: David E. Ross wrote: I submitted bug #738948, requesting a user option to use the user-specified background color. It was closed as WontFix without any explaination of why that would be a bad idea. I reopened the bug r

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-04-01 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rufus wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: Philip TAYLOR wrote: Despite having been a subscriber to this mailing list for quite some time, I have no recollection of the Seamonkey team ever saying "We are considering doing so-and-so for a future release, and would be interest

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread PhillipJones
Chris Ilias wrote: On 12-03-31 3:35 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: It would seem that someone feels that they can't defend the lack of choice *OR* explain why can't/shouldn't be fixed, so they just keep pretending the issue doesn't exist. Bill, that is borderline on a personal attack. If you have

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread PhillipJones
David E. Ross wrote: On 3/31/12 12:59 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Trying to say this nicely, some developers are more concerned than others what the users think. Does the phrase "it's FOSS, if you don't like don't use it, or maintain your own version." "ring any bells" ?

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread David E. Ross
On 3/25/12 2:23 AM, Daniel wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: >>> SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are >>> not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The >>> previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread David E. Ross
On 3/31/12 12:59 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Trying to say this nicely, some developers are more concerned than >> others what the users think. Does the phrase "it's FOSS, if you don't >> like don't use it, or maintain your own version." > > "ring any bells" ? No,

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread Chris Ilias
On 12-03-31 3:35 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Daniel wrote: David E. Ross wrote: I submitted bug #738948, requesting a user option to use the user-specified background color. It was closed as WontFix without any explaination of why that would be a bad idea. I reopened the bug report to request suc

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread Rufus
Bill Davidsen wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: Philip TAYLOR wrote: Despite having been a subscriber to this mailing list for quite some time, I have no recollection of the Seamonkey team ever saying "We are considering doing so-and-so for a future release, and would be interested to learn ho

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread Rufus
Bill Davidsen wrote: Daniel wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justif

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Bill Davidsen wrote: Trying to say this nicely, some developers are more concerned than others what the users think. Does the phrase "it's FOSS, if you don't like don't use it, or maintain your own version." "ring any bells" ? No, but I am quite willing to believe that such an attitude exis

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
David E. Ross wrote: On 3/25/12 2:23 AM, Daniel wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Daniel wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justified on a white screen.

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Philip TAYLOR wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: In this case it was a by design *core* change that caused it. And as such we did not come to the *SeaMonkey* user community to explicitly ask about it. Though in *theory* we could override the core choice here, I don't see a strongly compellin

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: Philip TAYLOR wrote: Despite having been a subscriber to this mailing list for quite some time, I have no recollection of the Seamonkey team ever saying "We are considering doing so-and-so for a future release, and would be interested to learn how the user community f

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-25 Thread Jim Taylor
Chris Ilias wrote: On 12-03-25 11:16 AM, David E. Ross wrote: On 3/25/12 2:23 AM, Daniel wrote: David E. Ross wrote: I submitted bug #738948, What I do not understand is why, if Kimura is so adamant that the user should have NO option, the implementation of bug #376997 did not contain cod

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-25 Thread PhillipJones
Chris Ilias wrote: On 12-03-25 11:16 AM, David E. Ross wrote: On 3/25/12 2:23 AM, Daniel wrote: David E. Ross wrote: I submitted bug #738948, What I do not understand is why, if Kimura is so adamant that the user should have NO option, the implementation of bug #376997 did not contain cod

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-25 Thread Chris Ilias
On 12-03-25 11:16 AM, David E. Ross wrote: On 3/25/12 2:23 AM, Daniel wrote: David E. Ross wrote: I submitted bug #738948, What I do not understand is why, if Kimura is so adamant that the user should have NO option, the implementation of bug #376997 did not contain code to block installat

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-25 Thread David E. Ross
On 3/25/12 2:23 AM, Daniel wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: >>> SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are >>> not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The >>> previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-25 Thread Ray_Net
Daniel wrote, On 25/03/2012 11:23: David E. Ross wrote: On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justif

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-25 Thread Daniel
David E. Ross wrote: On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justified on a white screen. Is this chan

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-24 Thread Philip Chee
On 25/03/2012 03:37, David E. Ross wrote: > On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: >> SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are >> not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The >> previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justified o

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-24 Thread WLS
On 03/24/2012 08:12 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 3/24/12 4:32 PM, WLS wrote: >> On 03/24/2012 03:37 PM, David E. Ross wrote: >>> On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-24 Thread David E. Ross
On 3/24/12 4:32 PM, WLS wrote: > On 03/24/2012 03:37 PM, David E. Ross wrote: >> On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: >>> SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are >>> not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The >>> previous way through 2.7.2

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-24 Thread WLS
On 03/24/2012 03:37 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: >> SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are >> not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The >> previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justifie

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-24 Thread Ray_Net
David E. Ross wrote, On 24/03/2012 20:37: On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justified on a white

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-24 Thread David E. Ross
On 3/15/12 9:56 AM, Jim Taylor wrote: > SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are > not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The > previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justified on a > white screen. Is this change by design?

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-16 Thread Jens Hatlak
Philip TAYLOR wrote: OK, I have no idea of what "M.D.A.Seamonkey" is a contraction, I referred to the mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey newsgroup which is used for SeaMonkey development coordination. As Chris already wrote, there's also a mailing list access option for that. Hmm, I don't feel thi

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-16 Thread Chris Ilias
On 12-03-16 8:55 AM, _Philip TAYLOR_ spoke thusly: Jens Hatlak wrote: Changes, especially core code ones, are usually only discussed in the respective Bugzilla bugs, or maybe in some cases in meetings that I don't attend (don't know). For SM changes it's similar (except the meetings part); if d

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Jens Hatlak wrote: For the latter part: That's because we don't do that. It would probably bring development to a full halt (and I think it already is way too slow, but I wouldn't be surprised if we disagreed about that). Ideas for future versions are usually discussed in Bugzilla bugs or o

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread David E. Ross
On 3/15/12 6:53 PM, Jim Taylor wrote: > NoOp wrote: > > Snip >> Not sure. However if you 'view image' (any image from any site), sample: >> http://cafxx.strayorange.com/ImageTweak.png >> and 'view page info|links' you'll find: >> a stylesheet link for: >> resource://gre/res/TopLevelImageDocument.c

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Rufus
Jim Taylor wrote: NoOp wrote: Snip Not sure. However if you 'view image' (any image from any site), sample: http://cafxx.strayorange.com/ImageTweak.png and 'view page info|links' you'll find: a stylesheet link for: resource://gre/res/TopLevelImageDocument.css You can enter that in the URI bar&

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Jim Taylor
NoOp wrote: Snip Not sure. However if you 'view image' (any image from any site), sample: http://cafxx.strayorange.com/ImageTweak.png and 'view page info|links' you'll find: a stylesheet link for: resource://gre/res/TopLevelImageDocument.css You can enter that in the URI bar& it will display th

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Rufus
NoOp wrote: On 03/15/2012 05:51 PM, Rufus wrote: ... I noticed this change right away, but the odd thing for me was that it seemed to work for some sites and still display the old way for others...so I'm wondering, does the site content provider have some control over this display mode? Not s

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread NoOp
On 03/15/2012 05:51 PM, Rufus wrote: ... > > I noticed this change right away, but the odd thing for me was that it > seemed to work for some sites and still display the old way for > others...so I'm wondering, does the site content provider have some > control over this display mode? Not sure

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Rufus
David E. Ross wrote: On 3/15/12 4:11 PM, David E. Ross wrote: On 3/15/12 3:44 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: Philip TAYLOR wrote: But I still have no clear recollection of the Seamonkey team approaching this list with ideas for future versions of Seamonkey and asking for feedback on acceptability. F

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread NoOp
On 03/15/2012 11:25 AM, Chris Ilias wrote: > On 12-03-15 12:56 PM, _Jim Taylor_ spoke thusly: >> SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not >> full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The >> previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left ju

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Rufus
Jim Taylor wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 12-03-15 12:56 PM, _Jim Taylor_ spoke thusly: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justified on a

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Rufus
Philip TAYLOR wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 12-03-15 12:56 PM, _Jim Taylor_ spoke thusly: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. Is this change by design Yes, it's by design. I have no st

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread David E. Ross
On 3/15/12 4:11 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 3/15/12 3:44 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: >> Philip TAYLOR wrote: >>> But I still have no clear recollection of the Seamonkey team >>> approaching this list with ideas for future versions of Seamonkey >>> and asking for feedback on acceptability. >> >> For th

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread David E. Ross
On 3/15/12 3:44 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: > Philip TAYLOR wrote: >> But I still have no clear recollection of the Seamonkey team >> approaching this list with ideas for future versions of Seamonkey >> and asking for feedback on acceptability. > > For the latter part: That's because we don't do that.

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Jens Hatlak
Philip TAYLOR wrote: But I still have no clear recollection of the Seamonkey team approaching this list with ideas for future versions of Seamonkey and asking for feedback on acceptability. For the latter part: That's because we don't do that. It would probably bring development to a full halt

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Jens Hatlak
Jim Taylor wrote: What bothers me is that I got blind sided by it. Maybe I missed something but I looked in the release notes and changes and didn't see anything about it until I posted here and Chris and you answered. That seems like a pretty big change to just drop in without even being listed

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Jim Taylor
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: Philip TAYLOR wrote: Despite having been a subscriber to this mailing list for quite some time, I have no recollection of the Seamonkey team ever saying "We are considering doing so-and-so for a future release, and would be interested to learn how the user community f

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Jim Taylor
Chris Ilias wrote: On 12-03-15 12:56 PM, _Jim Taylor_ spoke thusly: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justified on a white screen. Is th

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: In this case it was a by design *core* change that caused it. And as such we did not come to the *SeaMonkey* user community to explicitly ask about it. Though in *theory* we could override the core choice here, I don't see a strongly compelling reason to do so. O

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
Philip TAYLOR wrote: > Despite > having been a subscriber to this mailing list for quite > some time, I have no recollection of the Seamonkey team > ever saying "We are considering doing so-and-so for > a future release, and would be interested to learn how > the user community feel about it". In

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Chris Ilias wrote: On 12-03-15 12:56 PM, _Jim Taylor_ spoke thusly: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. Is this change by design Yes, it's by design. I have no strong feelings one way

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Chris Ilias
On 12-03-15 12:56 PM, _Jim Taylor_ spoke thusly: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justified on a white screen. Is this change by design?

Re: 2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Rufus
Jim Taylor wrote: SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justified on a white screen. Is this change by design And if so is there some set

2.8 Graphics (.jpg) display change?

2012-03-15 Thread Jim Taylor
SeaMonkey 2.8 now displays graphic files (.jpg, .png, .gif) that are not full screen centered with a black border around the picture. The previous way through 2.7.2 was to display them top left justified on a white screen. Is this change by design And if so is there some setting I can cha