Posts by dontstopnow 11 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Feb 2010
I would say Chrome's dev tools are at least as good as Firebug, if not better. Pity both of them soak up your memory like a sponge.
Firefox's own dev tools aren't bad, but they lack a couple of really nice features (unminify JS in the console - /and/ preserve location of any errors for one), but I'm sticking with FF over Chrome because it doesn't turn all my internal urls into search queries grrrr
IMAP supports push via IDLE, great for devices (k9 mail is superb with IMAP). Not sure why some clients showed read mail as unread, sounds like a broken client (Outlook I'm looking at you and your suspiciously diabolical IMAP support).
My mail server offers webmail, IMAP(s), POP(s), Webmail, Caldav/ical, server side mail rules and an open source implementation of ActiveSync. And it's free. Thanks Zarafa.
Just because websites have hitherto been left in the hands of web developers and not app developers does not mean HTMLx and advanced js tools such as socket.io are not suitable for a web-app on a mobile device equipped with a decent browser.
A not insignificant percentage of apps are useless without a net connection anyway, so what's the difference? The twitter site for mobile would only need a few more tweaks (and it's not the available technology holding them back) for it to be every bit as good as an app.
The android browser already lays out bookmarks in a simple touch to launch way, and using a few tags in the HTML can turn a web-app into a bloody good imitation of a native app on the iPhone. I for one welcome the wide range of new HTML/CSS/js tools, although they do almost herald the death of the traditional web developer.
...there are some very good existing open protocols for mail and calendars that MS choose to neglect year on year.
It really would be nice to see a proper IMAP implementation in Outlook, (IMAP IDLE anyone?) combined with Caldav calendar support. Oops dreaming again, that might mean Outlook integration with non-MS software.
Beer cos it's Friday. Where's that bar steward......
and that's the point. Thunderbird has some major flaws but on the whole it's better than the competition. Where is IMAP IDLE in half of these clients? Where is an ical and caldav aware extension like lightning?
Bitch and moan about Tbird all you like but it still beats the competition.
"The core of this patching issue is that the software industry has, so far, failed to come up with a unified patching solution that can help home users on a large scale; that is, encompassing all software programs."
Hmm, what we need is some sort of package manager, that would be able to update all the software installed on a machine all at once......
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