20030722 Tuesday July 22, 2003

RE: The Door Is Ajar no IE Tim Bray (founder of XML) has posted a blog story titled "The Door Is Ajar" that is a call to arms for building a better browser and leaving the Internet Exploder era behind us. Down with IE. I support this even thought Mozilla Firebird just crashed as I was trying to write this. Now I'm using IE because it doesn't crash nearly as much as Firebird. Can't anyone fix the "I crash when I give you remembered drop-down choices" bug? It's been crashing my Phoenix/Firebird installations since the beginning (on different machines, all Windows boxes)! Posted in The Web at Jul 22 2003, 02:01:45 PM MDT 5 Comments

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aaah, did you file a bug report?

Posted by Paul Rivers on July 22, 2003 at 03:10 PM MDT #

Have you downloaded a nightly build recently? I haven't had that problem in a loooong time, not to mention that using a recent build helps the developers gather meaningful information when it does crash.

Posted by Jake on July 22, 2003 at 03:41 PM MDT #

Do you still use Safari on OS X? Even at 1.0 it's' still very buggy IMHO. The damn thing keeps quitting on me when I visit specific sites.

Posted by Simon Brown on July 22, 2003 at 03:46 PM MDT #

Paul: I did, a long time ago. It hasn't pissed me off in a while - a.k.a. I haven't lost a significant amount of data.

Jake: Nope - I probably should since I do it with all the other tools I use!

Simon: I rarely use Safari - Camino is my default.

Posted by Matt Raible on July 22, 2003 at 05:33 PM MDT #

I say browsers are done for, over. We will think of them as the green screen.

Coming out is XUL and Flash plug in, talking to SOA.

The only thing the browser runs is a plug in for flash, and from there we talk to Axis; back to the good old days of Client/Server. Hear me now, listen to me later. .V

Posted by Vic on July 23, 2003 at 06:41 PM MDT #

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