Re: Vexille

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:15:45 +0100, SpaceGirl
<nothespacegirlspam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rob Kelk wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:13:05 +0100, SpaceGirl
<nothespacegirlspam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

As demonstrated by the stability and security of open source software?
OS is a nice idea, but it doesn't work. OS software tends to be LARGE,
lacks actual features that are needed and rarely innovative. Is that the
kind of response you were fishing for?

That's the kind of response that shows you have no idea what open source
software is really like...

Then tell me what it's really like. Tell me how Linux is a far easier
platform for home users to use. Tell me how FireFox never needs fixing
and has some of the most innovative browsing features. Tell me how the
most widely used server side programming language (PHP) is super secure,
not to mention fast.

What does *_any_* of that have to do with the problems of using Flash on
websites? It's a poor debater who changes the subject to avoid the
original question.

But to answer them in order:

Who said anything about Linux? (Not me; I mentioned BSD.) It's a
corporate and developer's OS; Linux on a home machine is about as
nonsensical as Flash on a website.

Tell me how Internet Explorer or Safari never need fixing. *_All_*
software needs fixing.

No, that's Opera.

It's more secure, and faster, than Flash.


OS is great at generating copies of commercial software, but rarely for
creating anything new.

So? Nobody but you has raised this as a debating point; maybe it
doesn't matter.

Now can we get back to discussing the folly of using Flash on websites?


Have you seen the stuff MS are doing with their new web platform? It's
incredible stuff... if it works it'll change the WWW forever. So, where
are the OS versions of these things?

Microsoft has a bad history if ignoring what everyone else is doing and
trying to force their opinions on everyone else. Everyone else tends to
resent this. To date, MS' success rate on changing the Internet is very
low. (There are far more Apache servers than IIS servers, almost nobody
outside of Microsoft uses the IE-specific markup tags, and Passport went
over like a lead balloon, to give three examples.) Things may change,
but in my opinion AJAX has more chance of changing the web than anything
MS is doing.

This is very true!

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"They were engaged in a calm and dignified discussion of important
issues of the day. No, wait, that was somebody else. *These* two
were all but screaming at each other at the tops of their lungs."
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