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[Correction published 9/8/06]
At 9 a.m., it was 40 degrees in downtown Portland.
Was NOT expecting to still need the scraper. But the windshield was frosted over this morning, which sent me scurrying to the basement to find the aforementioned scraper, which was put away because winter was supposed to be over.
Alas, I imagine it would be better than scraping 6 inches of snow off the windshield, which is how much many places in Maine got as water over the past two days. The rain is gone now, leaving a clear and sunny but brisk day in its wake. Highs only in the upper 50s.
From Shawn in YARMOUTH: It is a bright chilly morning. 35 degrees, sunshine, singing birds and the plants are very green. Might have to mow this weekend and it is almost May. Glad it is sunny as I am off on a field trip with the 7th grade here in Yarmouth. Always interesting and fun.
From Mark in brUNSWICK: There is a nip in the air this morning as it’s 34 degrees with clear skies overhead. Brunswick is drying out as we received over four inches of rain in a 36-hour period.
From Karen in STEEP FALLS:Brrr…what happened?? There is ice on the cars and all the puddles are mini skating rinks! It is 37 degrees at 7:22am and a little breezy. Lots of sunshine though. Happy Wednesday! We’re half-way there.
From James in CAPE ELIZABETH:At 6:30 a.m., it was 30 and sunny. We saw 4.01 inches of rain fall here during the storm. Bring on the SUN!
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April 30th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
This is on the site that actively campaigns for you to make web developer’s lives easier by using standards compliant browsers. Getting the internet to work as well as it does can be a nightmare due to browser idiosyncracies.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
One year is a bit of an understatement. MS are closer to a decade in turn around time on…, well anything other than Office, Visual Studio or .Net.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Yes, I get it, you’re upset. Is it possible to be a web developer with a pulse and not rankle over what you aptly call “The Great Languish”? Some web designers even include “making the site work on IE6″ as a line item in their invoices.My point is that for whatever reason, now they’re trying to make a better browser, and they’re getting crucified over their struggle to ship that browser without breaking websites designed for a crappy ancestor.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:14 am
true - my idea was that in the future SVG might get “filesystem API” and “native drag’n'drop” support too!!That’s Scalable..
May 1st, 2008 at 1:05 am
I love opera, I just which they had greasmonkey, scrapbook, live bookmark extensions, and real time spell checking that underlines in text boxes, so I could use it for everything.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:55 am
The thing that stops his post sounding like excuses and sour grapes, is that he’s right: FF3, judging by beta4, is going to be the best browser ever.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:46 am
The context here is the incessant din of the firefox moan/howl.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:37 am
He’s freaking out a little too much here.While passing Acid3 gives legitimate bragging rights, it’s not the end of the world if they don’t. They won’t lose a significant amount of users over it.So instead of crying foul, they should just shrug it off and do their part to make sure Acid4 is more along the lines of what they think it should be.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:27 am
blah.. blah.. blah..Seriously, if there was a version of safari for linux with some sort of adblock, I’d switch in the blink of an eye. Firefox isn’t the underdog anymore and I’m not staying back just because of my affiliation to F/OSS. Webkit needs some love too. Many would choose to do so in the windows world. Plus for other reasons too. So there.Nobody fucking cares about your rant. You failed Acid3. Thats the label. Live with it./I use konqueror as my alternative browser.Edit: If you are so worried about PR, hack a test build that can pass the test just to show that you can do it(I don’t know how messed up gecko is). Its all about bragging rights for the fanboys. All the publicity comes from the fanboys and it would be wise to keep them happy. Normal users just don’t care. And release the current build as planned. The current nightly builds are stable enough and it wouldn’t hurt to re-direct some developer time for PR.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:18 am
Firefox, Opera, and Safari all rev frequently.IE6 and millions and millions of users were neglected for years.I don’t give a damn if they’re struggling now to handle the fucked up situation they made for us all — they let IE rot because they had no competition and didn’t care. That screwed us over and yeah, I’m miffed. Suddenly they’ve got two new versions? It’s a bit late.Firefox 3 has had four betas already, has one more beta to go, and will be out in June. 2 or 3 months in the future to the release and you bring up the idea of people griping about MS’s track record as a matter of “fairness”?I can understand MS delaying months on IE8 for the sake of “compatibility, standards support, and security”. Heck, delay a whole year. If someone’s griping about that delay, then sure we have some parity issues to point out. But if someone asks me to think about “browsers and update delays”, the thing that’s going to come to mind in’t 2 or 3 months of focusing on non-Acid 3 issues before Firefox 3’s release.The long, dark era of kludges, neglect, and stagnation that hailed the new millenium. Yeah, I go ballistic.Great that you use other browsers. I appreciate that. I really, really do. It’s that kind of effort towards standards support that forced MS to finally get their act together. But, no, MS does not get a pass on The Great Languish.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:08 am
I don’t find lack of subscription a problem. You don’t have to block adserver domains individually, you can block “http://ads.*swf*click*” and already 90% of ads are gone.There’s a nice option to throw away new cookies after you close the browser.