Re: wishlist Digest, Vol 34, Issue 8

If everybody knew about firefox then everybody would use it because IE is
crap

2008/10/17 <[email protected]>

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>   1. Nobody uses IE (Sven Timmer)
>   2. Re: Nobody uses IE (Tarkus)
>   3. Re: Nobody uses IE (der Mouse)
>   4. Re: Minimum window size (Herre de Jonge)
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> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:03:03 +0200
> From: Sven Timmer <[email protected]>
> Subject: Nobody uses IE
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> I wish that everybody uses firefox and nobody ie... but i think we can't
> handle it. ;)
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> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:18:06 -0700
> From: Tarkus <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Nobody uses IE
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> Sven Timmer wrote:
> > I wish that everybody uses firefox and nobody ie... but i think we can't
> > handle it. ;)
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> I don't.  Competition is good.
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> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:51:54 -0400 (EDT)
> From: der Mouse <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Nobody uses IE
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> > From: ... <karnevil9@...
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> Great track from a great disc!
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> >> I wish that everybody uses firefox and nobody ie... but i think we
> >> can't handle it. ;)
> > I don't.  Competition is good.
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> I agree with the conclusion but not the reasoning.  I don't think
> competition is particularly good, but I think variety (whether
> involving competition or not) definitely is, and - especially! - I
> think monocultures are bad.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:09:46 +0200
> From: Herre de Jonge <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Minimum window size
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> der Mouse wrote:
> >>>> It would be nice if all Windows within FF & TB would have a minimum
> >>>> size (say 300x200px), so they can't be (accidentaly) resized so
> >>>> small that they are unrecognizable.
> >>> [...website-specified changes...]
> >> Actually I mean manual resizing as well.  [...example...]
> >
> > You don't say what OS or graphics system this was under.  Under X, at
> > least, programs can specify minimum window sizes, but window managers
> > can ignore those specifications if they choose - have you checked to
> > see if TB is already setting a minimum size spec on its window?  (For
> > X, xprop can show this - it's part of WM_NORMAL_HINTS.)
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> I didn't specify this, because my whish is of course not
> OS dependent. It should work as well for Mac, Linux as
> Windows.
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> In this specific case it is Windows (XP and Vista). And
> I was thinking along the lines of WM_GETMINMAXINFO.
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> Take care,
>   Herre
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