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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    12/01/09

    In reply to Is Google Gears Dead?
    I look forward to the end of Javascript.
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    Image of ctxppc ctxppc
    12/01/09

    @Yerzriknot: Why? JavaScript is awesome! HTML 5 is supporter of it.
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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    12/01/09

    @ctxppc: Javascript is a security risk with little benefit. Hopefully HTML 5 with replace Flash and Javascript.
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    Image of ctxppc ctxppc
    12/04/09

    @Yerzriknot: EVERYTHING is a security risk. The RISKIED RISK is YOU (and everyone else who doesn't know much about computers)!
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    Edited by ctxppc at 12/04/09 4:17 PM ctxppc was starred ctxppc was unstarred
    Image of TomXP411 TomXP411
    12/01/09

    In reply to Is Google Gears Dead?
    Personally, I admire the fact that Google is not afraid to sunset redundant, unnecessary, or deficient products.

    IMO, Google has always been a research-driven company (rather than a profit-driven one, like Microsoft.) They come up with good ideas first, then figure out how to monetize them. I appreciate that approach: I'm relying on Google more and more, primarily because its products, while often not perfect, just "fit" with my needs more. When a product is no longer needed, they kill it, and there's usually a better replacement I can migrate to.

    Contrast this to the Microsoft way, which is to take a redundant product, make it free, convince everyone to use it, tweak it so that it's no longer compatible with the standards, then exploit the fact that everyone is stuck with their product - even if the public would rather use something better.
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    Bokusatsu_Tenshi promoted this comment TomXP411 was starred TomXP411 was unstarred
    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    12/01/09

    @TomXP411: Better to do some research before taking your own conclusions.

    Microsoft has tons of research, most of them with several years of work which still didn't got to an end product not because the idea isn't good, but because they think it's not ready for the market yet.

    Also, it's a whole different level.
    Everybody may like now the way Google does things, but we only have a huge computer marketing with tons of people working on research and development because the "Microsoft way" is what pushed several advances in technology we wouldn't have otherwise.

    There are several innovations that came out from Microsoft Research, and the fact that Microsoft didn't close up Windows with specific hardware enabled the market to speciallize on several areas and speed up development on each one of them.

    That is why we have cheap computer parts (which also enable cheap computers) and technologies that evolved very fast... like graphic and audio cards.

    I'm not saying Microsoft is flawless... far from it. Fails hard on costumer relationship, overal design, product quality (aka new software with several design and functional flaws) and others.

    But we can't just ignore what it has done and is still doing for the category as a whole.

    One thing is for shure. If from the beginning we'd had computer business models like the ones from Sun and Apple, we wouldn't be nowhere close to what we are today.
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    Image of TomXP411 TomXP411
    12/04/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: I have two words for you: Internet Explorer.

    The biggest problem with the web right now is IE.. the sheer volume of IE users is forcing web site owners to constantly re-develop their sites to handle IE's changes... and since a site which is 100% perfect on IE won't be 100% perfect on FireFox, Safari, or Chrome, you end up spending 3x the work on your presentation layer when you could be doing other things.

    This situation came about because Microsoft gave away their web browser when Netscape and others were trying to charge for it.

    I'm not saying Google is perfect or that Microsoft is the Devil. Both business models have their place, and they both serve their niche well.

    There's no doubt that MS has advanced the state of the art. Nobody can say otherwise, but from my viewpoint, they care more about profit than innovation.

    Google, on the other hand, seems to be all about new ideas, and while they're insanely profitable, they are happy to give away what they could charge for. The down side is that their products never seem to be "finished." For example, there's no way I could rely on Google Docs for all of my document processing needs, but it's awesome for doing collaborative work.

    Regardless, there's a danger in relying on one vendor or business model for anything - whether it be Microsoft, Google, or Apple... which is why I use my iPhone and GMail account with my Windows based computers.
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    Image of bryaneagle bryaneagle
    12/01/09

    In reply to Is Google Gears Dead?
    gears works great in the admin area of all of my Wordpress installations. Makes it much more like installed local software.
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    Bokusatsu_Tenshi approved this comment bryaneagle was starred bryaneagle was unstarred
    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    12/01/09

    @bryaneagle: Let me ask you Bryan... are you running Wordpress on self-host? And if so, what plugin you use to run Google Gears?
    I don't have many uses for offline browsing but managing my blog offline would be awesome!
    And it really has to be an offline version of it... all offline blogging tools (like Windows Live Writter) I tested so far didn't work out for me.
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    Image of telepheedian telepheedian
    12/01/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: It's called "Turbo Mode", and it's built into newer versions of wordpress.
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    Bokusatsu_Tenshi promoted this comment telepheedian was starred telepheedian was unstarred
    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    12/02/09

    @telepheedian: See, that's why I asked about self-host.
    I remember Wordpress.com had Turbo Mode, but I can't find it on self-host (Wordpress.org)...
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    Image of telepheedian telepheedian
    12/02/09

    @Bokusatsu_Tenshi: I seem to recall my installation having it, and I didn't do anything special to activate it. Odd.
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    Image of jinushaun jinushaun
    12/01/09

    In reply to Is Google Gears Dead?
    Why keep Gears around once every browser supports Local Storage? Gears has always been a stop gap solution.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/01/09

    In reply to Is Google Gears Dead?
    Chrome can't die! It magically turned my decrepit Inspiron into a top-notch web browsing PC again.
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    Image of Suttin Suttin
    12/01/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Because there is no gears support for Chrome in OSX, John thinks gears is dead..

    edit: I need a full pot of coffee..
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    AkkiRonin promoted this comment Edited by Suttin at 12/01/09 10:37 AM Suttin was starred Suttin was unstarred
    Image of Kcm117 Kcm117
    12/01/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Gears is dying....not Chrome
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/01/09

    @Kcm117: @Suttin: I was responding to what I now realize was a miswording in the article.
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    Image of AkkiRonin AkkiRonin
    12/01/09

    @Suttin: Not John.... Paul is dead.
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    Image of Suttin Suttin
    12/01/09

    @AkkiRonin: Eh?

    @Kaiser-Machead: It cool. It feels like a monday here.
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    Image of AkkiRonin AkkiRonin
    12/01/09

    @Suttin: Just showing my age... there was a conspiracy theory with the Beatles that Paul was dead at one point and over time it morphed to John being dead.
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    Image of Darrone Darrone
    12/01/09

    In reply to Is Google Gears Dead?
    Chrome, it seems, has died.

    Can you explain?
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    Monty promoted this comment Darrone was starred Darrone was unstarred
    Image of Monty Monty
    12/01/09

    @Darrone: I thought it was my stupidity, but I was wondering the same thing. Clearly I was unaware that Gears and Chrome were symbiotic twins.
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    Image of HAZman27 HAZman27
    12/01/09

    @Darrone: I think this was a typo, intending to say Gears has died.
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    jeffk promoted this comment HAZman27 was starred HAZman27 was unstarred
    Image of jeffk jeffk
    12/01/09

    Yes, please explain. Which "Chrome"?
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    Edited by jeffk at 12/01/09 10:32 AM jeffk was starred jeffk was unstarred
    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    11/18/09

    In reply to Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy
    Now, you say the scroll bars work, and that's true, but moving them doesn't do anything. I was hoping that each one would represent how far along that number is from changing (if it's 1:30:00, 1's scroll bar would be halfway down, but all the other numbers would be right at the beginning).

    Something else I like in this vein -- [the389.com] (though it only really works well in Chrome or Safari).
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    Platypus Man was starred Platypus Man was unstarred
    Image of iheartpie iheartpie
    11/18/09

    @Platypus Man: now THAT is cool!

    Question in regards to both sites; I'm assuming these are actually scroll bars and not just fancy scripting with some graphics? Cause that'd be easy to do ... actual scroll bars not so easy to do.

    Can't test with OS/browser either, cause the graphics could be dynamically set depending on these factors ... and most code and right-click functionality can be altered server side :( I need answers!
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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment iheartpie was starred iheartpie was unstarred
    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    11/19/09

    @iheartpie: I use a custom XP skin (XPMC Compact) and the clock showed the correct scroll bars , so it's definitively using actual scrollbars and not just emulating them with graphics.
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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. was starred TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Crimson33 Crimson33
    11/18/09

    In reply to Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy

    Too bad ME users might be using IE 6 or lower... And it might look like this.
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    Platypus Man promoted this comment Crimson33 was starred Crimson33 was unstarred
    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    11/18/09

    @Crimson33: Better than IE8, where it doesn't even appear...
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    Platypus Man was starred Platypus Man was unstarred
    Image of jakemg : tries too hard jakemg : tries too hard
    11/18/09

    In reply to Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy
    Sorry, but this didn't exactly give me a boner. :(
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    John Herrman promoted this comment jakemg : tries too hard was starred jakemg : tries too hard was unstarred
    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    11/18/09

    @jakemg: I don't know what to do here, console you?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/18/09

    @John Herrman:

    ...are you saying you dont know how to give someone a boner?
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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/13/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    Maybe they were shooting the new Super Mario Bros movie? #marioandluigiassault
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    Image of shooter shooter
    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    Loved the music and sound effects...lol. #marioandluigiassault
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    Jesus Diaz promoted this comment shooter was starred shooter was unstarred
    Image of Twinder Twinder
    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    I'm more interested in that magical vanishing truck. #marioandluigiassault
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    Revenge? #marioandluigiassault
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    It's-a-me! Mario! Give-a me my fuckin money! #marioandluigiassault
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    They must have been on shrooms. #marioandluigiassault
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    11/12/09

    @Software_Goddess: Well that explains why their tall. #marioandluigiassault
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