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Comment Haiku's been doing this (Stack & Tile) (Score 1) 38

Haiku (the BeOS reimplementation as FLOSS) has been doing this for some years, building on BeOS' tabbed title bars (which one could slide with shift-click but that's about it), and implements "stack and tile": you can dock windows by their sides, and stack them so them are grouped, then you can resize them as a whole and move them too. This was a contribution of someone from the Auckland University.

cf. https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/...

Comment Me too! (Score 1) 383

Flash is *not* a W3C standard -> Flash is *not* part of the Web.
In no way does Flash match the definition of the Web from Tim Berners-Lee, which is information to *anyone*.
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/

Anything calling itself a "website" that has flash inside should be charged with false claims.

Besides even on XP, flash sux (both the cpu and itself):
http://revolf.free.fr/img/why_I_banned_flash.png
http://revolf.free.fr/img/why_flash_sux_even_on_linux.png

Comment Meanwhile in France... (Score 1) 857

While ISP are required to keep logs already, on tuesday when introducing the debate on yet another clueless copyright bill, the Minister of Culture told her intentions of requiring public access wifi (schools, towns, ..) to only allow a whitelist of sites.
The opposition deputee ironized telling it could include the governement and the UMP (the majority party) sites...

What a shame, really!

Comment Sender Verification... unverifiable (Score 1) 198

It happened to me some days ago that my ISP refused to send a mail to a mailing list because it was using sender verification just like itself, and it was causing too many errors (because it's actually starting to send a mail before bailing out). It happened today to someone trying to send a mail to my someone on my ISP... It seems this thing doesn't really work both ways :D

Comment Re:Flash (Score 3, Interesting) 133

flash is not a standard. it's closed source, so not available everywhere, and unaccessible, unindexable... exactly what the web is not supposed to be.
cf. http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
Sorry no, gnash or swfdec are not there yet, besides, whoever looked at porting them must have noticed they aren't portable despite being opensource, dependancy hell here I come. Just check the never finished BeOS port of gnash. I don't see silverlight being better anytime soon.
At least Java is open now, so it can be ported.
But it's not accessible to blind people for ex.

Why don't they make websites instead ?

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