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From: Chris Ridd on 20 Apr 2010 08:42 On 2010-04-20 12:24:42 +0100, Jim said: > On 2010-04-20, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> ibid? >>>> >>>> "Me too" in old-fashioned. >>>> >>>> Actually ibidem, "in the same place" or "at the same reference". >>>> Mostly used for citations. >>> >>> Ooooh, nice one. Might just have to adopt that. >>> >>> Thanks. >> >> My .signature monster says this: >> >> `...the Plain English Campaign [...] says some officials only use Latin to >> make themselves feel important. A Campaign spokesman said the ban might >> stop people confusing the Latin abbreviation e.g. with the word "egg".' > > Heh. It *really* annoys me to see people using "ex" instead of "eg" or "e.g.". Apple's UIs do this :-((( -- Chris
From: Jim on 20 Apr 2010 08:46 On 2010-04-20, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Oh, me neither. ibid. >>>> >>>> ibid? >>> >>> "Me too" in old-fashioned. >>> >>> Actually ibidem, "in the same place" or "at the same reference". >>> Mostly used for citations. >> >> Ooooh, nice one. Might just have to adopt that. > > Just don't get confused and bidibidibidi. > Heh. "No such luck, Buck!" Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Chris Ridd on 19 Apr 2010 09:51 On 2010-04-19 13:45:31 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:39:10 +0100, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) > wrote: > >> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >> >>> On the downside for Firefox >>> >>> 1) It doesn't use the Keychain to store passwords >> >> That bugs me too. > > It doesn't bug me *very* much, but it does annoy. The old "Firefox > isn't very Mac-like" seems to be mostly history now, apart from this. As soon as you wade into preferences though, it looks pretty un-Maclike. Or at least current versions of Thunderbird do, and that's basically the same code. > One of the things I reckon this thread might demonstrate is that all > the current browsers are pretty good at rendering web pages, so > people's preferences are largely down to the surrounding controls and > other UI bits that do differ between. And habit, probably foremost. I'm semi-tempted by Chrome, as it combines Webkit goodness with a bit of flexibility (plugins?) and Mac things like Keychain. -- Chris
From: Chris Ridd on 19 Apr 2010 09:53 On 2010-04-19 14:22:24 +0100, Andy Hewitt said: > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:59:10 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> >> wrote: >> >>>> On the downside for Firefox >>>> >>>> 1) It doesn't use the Keychain to store passwords >>> >>> That I didn't know. That's a shame really as I love the keychain and >>> the autofiller in safari. >> >> Firefox has its own autofiller, working from its own data store, so >> it's functionally fine. I just prefer to have all my >> password-flavoured eggs in one well protected basket, as it were! > > I use 1Password myself. Much betterer IMHO. Yes, and a browser that could take advantage of 1Password without using a bit of a hack, would be a good thing. -- Chris
From: James Dore on 19 Apr 2010 10:49
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:03:54 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > This has probably been done to death but what actually makes a good > browser? Many here prefer one over another, whether it be Safari or > Firefox or some other. My views have already been stated and I won't > bother boring you all again because I know my views here aren't > generally respected. > > I only bring it up because of Jamie's remarks that he didn't use Safari > in the hacking thread. > > Best > > James- > Opera makes a good browser. - It's nice and configurable, without downloading lots of plugins. - It has a good vertical bookmark pane - Tabbed browsing and realtime preview of other tabs. - A blue dot on a tab shows you when the page has updated (or finished loading) in the background - Opera Sync means I have the same environment on five different machines and three different platforms (Mac/Win/Lin) (no plugin required) - Built-in mail and newsreader - Built-in RSS reader - Built-in IM client Nothing else has offered a good enough reason to change, either. Cheers, -- James Dore New College IT Officer james.dore(a)new / it-support(a)new |