The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong

re: The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong

Luo — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:20:06 GMT

Hello Raymond!! you are my hero, are you working on Windows 7?

re: The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong

SuperKoko — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:52:03 GMT

From Frank Schwad:

"Can you honestly say you have them all enabled on your web browser?"

How can I enable ActiveX in GNU/Linux?

The Web is so "open" that you need a Windows+IE PC to use it!

From Merus:

"The usability improvements from Ajax transformed the Web."

Making pretty any site unusable. Making direct linking, bookmarking, multi-windows browsing, printing almost impossible, and making the browser unresponsive with 512K ADSL connections (I don't even know what it is with a 56K).

comctl32

Tihiy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:56:08 GMT

Oh, Raymond, can you push ILC_COLOR32 to be the default for imagelist flags? I've seen too many icons broken because of programmers uncaring about it (in Windows too), and this is certainly not the big compatibility issue (much more things were broken on Classic->XP->Vista comctl32 path).

re: The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong

Neil — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:48:30 GMT

GRiNSER, at least in Firefox 3, named anchors scroll overflowed areas automatically.

re: The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong

Simon Buchan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:24:51 GMT

FYI: Find seems to work fine in IE8, except it breaks the scroll.

Windows 7 MSI session at PDC - Joy of Setup

Windows 7 MSI session at PDC - Joy of Setup — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:01:27 GMT

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re: The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong

Whatever — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:12:06 GMT

> I think web browsing (and hopefully computing in general) will really start to slide in the direction of end-user interests rather than corporate interests.

You're more of an optimist than I am, then.

New Windows 7 sessions at PDC08 - istartedsomething

New Windows 7 sessions at PDC08 - istartedsomething — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:39:40 GMT

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re: The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong

GRiNSER — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:31:51 GMT

I don't know who made this PDC site but why can't they use overflow: auto instead of this freakin idiotic javascript scrollbar. Besides they could make direct linking happen with the wonderful url #anchor stuff that can be read out by javascript which could then scroll the overflow: auto (!!!) list and select the correct item...

re: The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong

Worf — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:46:31 GMT

The main problem with javascript these days is that there are a bunch of malicious scripts out there. There is one running around that uses SQL injection to embed itself into a website, which then causes the user visiting that site to get a bunch of stuff installed on their PC. What's worse is a bunch of legit sites are infected as well. A lot of security issues are resolved by having javascript off by default (including XSS ones).

And extensions like NoScript make the web faster by not having the browser stall if you accidentally click on a link that forces a plugin to load. Plus all those annoying "rich media ads" go away too.