Comments for :quit dammit http://duryodhan.wordpress.com Just another blag! Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:56:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Yakuake by uid0 http://duryodhan.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/yakuake/#comment-32 uid0 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:56:26 +0000 http://duryodhan.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/yakuake/#comment-32 Yeah, i absolutely agree with this post. i've used Ubuntu for a year now, but getting more familiar with Linux, i got more inconvenience with doing 'everything' (mainly) by clicking everywhere, knowing nothing about what's really happening in the background. I wanted to give up "easyness" for security, simplicity and stability. I found Slackware best for my needs. I found the documentation absolutely friendly, I think a beginner with a little knowledge can easyily install that distro. Configuring without dependency management may be fumbling of course - after Ubuntu did the most of it instantly - but for me it's a little adventure, and of course, practice. I think for an experienced linux user (what i wanna be :D) it's just heaven. I also recommend Slackware for users who really want to USE their computer, and not just see their computer working. Yeah, i absolutely agree with this post. i’ve used Ubuntu for a year now, but getting more familiar with Linux, i got more inconvenience with doing ‘everything’ (mainly) by clicking everywhere, knowing nothing about what’s really happening in the background. I wanted to give up “easyness” for security, simplicity and stability. I found Slackware best for my needs. I found the documentation absolutely friendly, I think a beginner with a little knowledge can easyily install that distro. Configuring without dependency management may be fumbling of course – after Ubuntu did the most of it instantly – but for me it’s a little adventure, and of course, practice. I think for an experienced linux user (what i wanna be :D ) it’s just heaven. I also recommend Slackware for users who really want to USE their computer, and not just see their computer working.

]]> Comment on FiredFox by Gilbert Ashley http://duryodhan.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/firedfox/#comment-14 Gilbert Ashley Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:23:49 +0000 http://duryodhan.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-14 I agree. I find firefox to be really slow and still clunky looking. I'm a real die-hard free-software guy, but I am spoiled by using opera -even thoug I don't have KDE or Qt on my box -I use the statically compiled version. To me the classiest looking and functioning gecko-based browser was galeon. If only the guy had gotten rid of the gnome-libs dependency and just used GTK. I think development finally stopped completey about a year ago. I use dillo for viewing webpages locally -if it would render most pages better I would use it all the time. I've done some work on other small browsers like skipstone and cheetah, but my coding skills are not good enough to get anywhere near to doing what I'd like to see. And, even if they were, maintaing a browser is a big job that needs at least a few really good coders. I'm pretty sick of all the moz-based stuff as it is a nightmare to configure and compile the way you want -much less hacking it. Still, I did a couple of small hacks to the mozilla GTK embedded borwser to create a small low-featured browser with very good rendering and also patched the minimo browser to run under GTK-1.2. Either one of these will load in about 3 seconds as compared to 9-12 seconds for moz/monkey/fox. Dillo starts and loads a page in one-half of a second on the same box... I agree. I find firefox to be really slow and still clunky looking. I’m a real die-hard free-software guy, but I am spoiled by using opera -even thoug I don’t have KDE or Qt on my box -I use the statically compiled version.
To me the classiest looking and functioning gecko-based browser was galeon. If only the guy had gotten rid of the gnome-libs dependency and just used GTK. I think development finally stopped completey about a year ago.
I use dillo for viewing webpages locally -if it would render most pages better I would use it all the time. I’ve done some work on other small browsers like skipstone and cheetah, but my coding skills are not good enough to get anywhere near to doing what I’d like to see. And, even if they were, maintaing a browser is a big job that needs at least a few really good coders.

I’m pretty sick of all the moz-based stuff as it is a nightmare to configure and compile the way you want -much less hacking it. Still, I did a couple of small hacks to the mozilla GTK embedded borwser to create a small low-featured browser with very good rendering and also patched the minimo browser to run under GTK-1.2. Either one of these will load in about 3 seconds as compared to 9-12 seconds for moz/monkey/fox. Dillo starts and loads a page in one-half of a second on the same box…

]]> Comment on A little longer – HTML5 by karl dubost, w3c http://duryodhan.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/a-little-longer-html5/#comment-4 karl dubost, w3c Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:01:15 +0000 http://duryodhan.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/a-little-longer-html5/#comment-4 Specs take time to write, but takes even longer to test. To speed up the development a lot of efforts have to been done on developing test cases. The HTML 5 Specification is an abstract model if we would like to compare with previous specifications, it would include DOM + DOM HTML + HTML 4 + XHTML 1 + XMLHttpRequest + a few APIS + parsing model (new) etc. So it's a lot bigger project than HTML 4 alone. Ian Hickson is editing the document, but the W3C HTML WG including the whatwg members (subgroup of browser vendors), have not yet decided what will be the full content of the final HTML 5 Spec. We will know when the specification will reach last call. Exciting time ahead. The big challenge is also how to have more authoring tools developers, Web site designers, and CMS developers participate to the HTML WG and give their perspective on the language. Specs take time to write, but takes even longer to test. To speed up the development a lot of efforts have to been done on developing test cases. The HTML 5 Specification is an abstract model if we would like to compare with previous specifications, it would include DOM + DOM HTML + HTML 4 + XHTML 1 + XMLHttpRequest + a few APIS + parsing model (new) etc. So it’s a lot bigger project than HTML 4 alone.

Ian Hickson is editing the document, but the W3C HTML WG including the whatwg members (subgroup of browser vendors), have not yet decided what will be the full content of the final HTML 5 Spec. We will know when the specification will reach last call.

Exciting time ahead. The big challenge is also how to have more authoring tools developers, Web site designers, and CMS developers participate to the HTML WG and give their perspective on the language.

]]> Comment on A little longer – HTML5 by duryodhan http://duryodhan.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/a-little-longer-html5/#comment-3 duryodhan Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:03:42 +0000 http://duryodhan.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/a-little-longer-html5/#comment-3 Hey, Lol. 2022!!! You need a much better line to enthuse everyone till 2022. :) But isn't HTML4 already a recommendation? Or do you plan to make HTML5 a rec only after it has been actually implemented and tested well throughout! Such a devious and blasphemous route might shock the good people at w3c. You might set the wrong example for the large number of future spec authors, after all the work that has been done by so <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-%2A" rel="nofollow">many groups</a> on "how to create a rec quickly". heh. And , it is my pleasure seeing the nice discussions on the mailing lists. Hey,
Lol. 2022!!!

You need a much better line to enthuse everyone till 2022. :)

But isn’t HTML4 already a recommendation? Or do you plan to make HTML5 a rec only after it has been actually implemented and tested well throughout! Such a devious and blasphemous route might shock the good people at w3c. You might set the wrong example for the large number of future spec authors, after all the work that has been done by so many groups on “how to create a rec quickly”.

heh.

And , it is my pleasure seeing the nice discussions on the mailing lists.

]]> Comment on A little longer – HTML5 by Ian http://duryodhan.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/a-little-longer-html5/#comment-2 Ian Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:33:55 +0000 http://duryodhan.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/a-little-longer-html5/#comment-2 That schedule isn't really realistic in my opinion, by the way. The more realistic schedule (which the W3C refused to publish) is on the WHATWG wiki in the FAQ: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#When_will_HTML_5_be_finished.3F (Consider, though, that HTML4, the last vesion of HTML, still isn't done -- there's no complete implementation, and it has many known issues -- and you'll see why we are planning for the long haul!) Thanks for your support! That schedule isn’t really realistic in my opinion, by the way. The more realistic schedule (which the W3C refused to publish) is on the WHATWG wiki in the FAQ:

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#When_will_HTML_5_be_finished.3F

(Consider, though, that HTML4, the last vesion of HTML, still isn’t done — there’s no complete implementation, and it has many known issues — and you’ll see why we are planning for the long haul!)

Thanks for your support!

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