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Core i7 iMacs showing up DOA -- including ours {Engadget}
Nov 24th 2009 2:33AM @snugs
From a post I made a few days ago:
"BTW, ACID3 is not standards compliant, either. As it requires TT fonts, which is not supported by any W3C standard (again, I invite you to show me where, among W3C standards, TT fonts are required). It also tests CSS3.0 something that is not yet a W3C standard. So if something follows CSS3.0, it is not standard since the CSS3.0 draft may change before it becomes standard. It is much like you walking up to me and telling me you defined a new word. You tell me the definition of your new word. We may now know that word, but if it is not in the Oxford or Webster's dictionary, it is not a real word, and if others do not understand that new word, it is not their fault for not knowing something that does not exist."
But there are many problems that are not specific to IE, FF, or even Safari:
1) Click Reply when you are not logged in. You will get a script error rather than taking you to a login page
2) On Safari, start selecting text with the mouse and move the mouse all the way to the right. The text box will nearly hide.
3) They still have not fixed the set an avatar picture. I have tried using IE, FF, and Safari to upload a new image, using multiple resolutions, and still do not have a picture.
4) On IE, if you click the plus or minus, it does a full reload of the page while on other browsers it does an in place vote - which has absolutely nothing to do with ACID
5) On iPhone and iTouch, it shows a user/pass and comment box under every single posting.
6) On Safari, it does not always scroll to the comment box while at other times it does
And I could go on, and on, and ...
Core i7 iMacs showing up DOA -- including ours {Engadget}
Nov 24th 2009 2:29AM @snugs
From a post I made a few days ago:
"BTW, ACID3 is not standards compliant, either. As it requires TT fonts, which is not supported by any W3C standard (again, I invite you to show me where, among W3C standards, TT fonts are required). It also tests CSS3.0 something that is not yet a W3C standard. So if something follows CSS3.0, it is not standard since the CSS3.0 draft may change before it becomes standard. It is much like you walking up to me and telling me you defined a new word. You tell me the definition of your new word. We may now know that word, but if it is not in the Oxford or Webster's dictionary, it is not a real word, and if others do not understand that new word, it is not their fault for not knowing something that does not exist."
But there are many problems that are not specific to IE, FF, or even Safari:
1) Click Reply when you are not logged in. You will get a script error rather than taking you to a login page
2) On Safari, start selecting text with the mouse and move the mouse all the way to the right. The text box will nearly hide.
3) They still have not fixed the set an avatar picture. I have tried using IE, FF, and Safari to upload a new image, using multiple resolutions, and still do not have a picture.
4) On IE, if you click the plus or minus, it does a full reload of the page where it only does a in-place up/down rank in Safari - which has absolutely nothing to do with ACID3
5) Bugs where Safai, when you click Reply, does not always scroll to the comment box, but does on other browsers.
6) On my iPhone and iTouch, when you browser it shows a comment box and user/pass under every single post.
And so many more bugs... It is bad when you wish for the old comment system.
Core i7 iMacs showing up DOA -- including ours {Engadget}
Nov 24th 2009 1:57AM Maybe you should try switching to Windows - not so much so that you can use a different computer, but so that you could fix all the problems with your web site on browsers other than Safari.
Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 rolling out November 24th {Engadget}
Nov 19th 2009 3:11PM @htd
I use a Dell 530s with a celeron processor, the new 537s costs $249. WHS from NewEgg is $99. So for $350 you have a computer for backup, storage, web server, etc. which is about the same price as a NetTop computer.
And when will we see a "What would you change with the new Engadget" post? Many changes and fixes are needed.
Apple tablet(s) in 2H 2010 with OLED screen and tailored content in tow? {Engadget}
Nov 19th 2009 10:58AM @Musouka
The Zune HD has OLED, it is a horrible battery eating tech that is useless in light brighter than a candle.
Windows Tablet was too expensive at $1500 5 years ago, and still too expensive when they give them away at PDC
Using a stylus with a windows device is cumbersome and so passe.
Nobody will ever want to use a tablet like device, who wants to write when they can type, have it lay flat when they can have the screen oriented towards them, and so on, and so on, and so on...
WHAT? An Apple product with that beautiful OLED display, costs only $2000, a really cool stylus for artists to draw freehand while the device lays flat on the desktop?
That is the greatest invention ***EVER***
AT&T 'hits' back at Verizon's Map for That campaign with an 'ad' of its own {Engadget}
Nov 18th 2009 8:05PM Actually, the issue with not being able to talk and surf on AT&T is not correct. You may be able to on 3G, but with my 1st gen iPhone I cannot. And being the first item in the list specifically says 3G, but the second item does not give any detail as to the network, they are claiming something that they do not do.
Windows Marketplace trickles down to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 {Engadget}
Nov 16th 2009 9:28PM OK, Jack. Uncontrol makes a claim that makes it sound like MS did something to make their page not render with AA. I give a plausable reason - a stretch, but plausable because it renders with AA using IE8. You shoot back, starting to make claims about ACID3 and IE not being standards compliant - a claim that has not one damn thing in common with AA in web browsers (I invite you to show me where, among all the W3C standards, the issue of web browsers supporting AA is addressed). So I discuss web standards, how Apple does not follow W3C standards that are over 10 years old, but I am wrong for not sticking to your new topic.
So let's recap:
You go off topic, and that is perfectly fine.
I address your off topic discussion, and I am wrong for being off topic.
But that is OK, because you are the new Apple fanboy and you are allowed to be off topic as much as you want, but nobody else better dare question your off-topic rants.
BTW, ACID3 is not standards compliant, either. As it requires TT fonts, which is not supported by any W3C standard (again, I invite you to show me where, among W3C standards, TT fonts are required). It also tests CSS3.0 something that is not yet a W3C standard. So if something follows CSS3.0, it is not standard since the CSS3.0 draft may change before it becomes standard. It is much like you walking up to me and telling me you defined a new word. You tell me the definition of your new word. We may now know that word, but if it is not in the Oxford or Webster's dictionary, it is not a real word, and if others do not understand that new word, it is not their fault for not knowing something that does not exist.
Windows Marketplace trickles down to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 {Engadget}
Nov 16th 2009 6:29PM BTW, I wouldn't be talking all high and mighty about how Apple follows standards, while others do not.
Have you ever tried developing for the iPhone? Need to call a web service? In Microsoft developer tools you right click, select Add Service, type in a URL, and start coding. Being Apple does not have any support for web services, I have spent the past week writing tools to run on Windows which will generate Objective-C code to talk to a web service. SOAP is a well known, supported, W3C standard. But where is the Apple support for this open standard that became a recommendation over 6 years ago?
Of course, since SOAP is XML based, you need an XML parser to parse the response. Want to do this on an iPhone in a standards based way? Ooops, sorry, you are out of luck. The iPhone only supports SAX parsing - which is not a standard. While other tools from other companies support real standards such as XPath, Apple preferrs the non-standard way. So while XPath has been a standard for over 10 years, Apple cannot even get it in their shiny new phone, which is oh-so-standards compliant, to follow standards.
But it is the others who only do things half-assed.
Windows Marketplace trickles down to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 {Engadget}
Nov 16th 2009 6:02PM Who cares if it does the right thing for the user such as drawing the text properly. All that is important is that it conforms to ACID 3.
Who cares if a MacBook overheats. All that is important is that it looks pretty.
Who cares if OSX deletes files when logging in as a Guest. All that is important is that it is not Windows.
My comment was to Uncontrol, who is making himself out to me yet another generic, interchangable Apple fanboys. Turn it around, and show where the fault could not be because of Microsoft, but Apple, and you have a fit.
Windows Marketplace trickles down to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 {Engadget}
Nov 16th 2009 4:42PM You yourself said it is not yet available, so how do you know WinMo 7 sucks, has lag, and locks up constantly?
