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Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Fri, May 31, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

vvhn wrote: post #92

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>That's because Home and End keys on the Mac, like in the original UNIX, mean the beginning and the end of the document not the beginning and end of a line which is a Windows thing Is it? I'm used to them going to the beginning and the end of lines on Linux.

The very next line you quoted tells you why that is the case on Linux now. if you used Linux in the late 90's, you will remember that a lot of the popular window managers/desktop environments aimed to make your transition from Windows 95 easier and the current Linux behaviour is a result of that.

I'm not talking about GUIs. I mean in text editors and at the Terminal.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Fri, May 31, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

vvhn wrote: post #92

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>That's because Home and End keys on the Mac, like in the original UNIX, mean the beginning and the end of the document not the beginning and end of a line which is a Windows thing Is it? I'm used to them going to the beginning and the end of lines on Linux.

The very next line you quoted tells you why that is the case on Linux now. if you used Linux in the late 90's, you will remember that a lot of the popular window managers/desktop environments aimed to make your transition from Windows 95 easier and the current Linux behaviour is a result of that.

I'm not talking about GUIs. I mean in text editors and at the Terminal.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by racl101 » Fri, May 31, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

You could say Camino has ...

* puts on shades * Reached the end of the road!

* Cue the CSI theme * YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by Domenic_S » Fri, May 31, 2013, 8:01 PM UTC

racl101 wrote: post #113

You could say Camino has ... * puts on shades * Reached the end of the road! * Cue the CSI theme * YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

whoa, am I on reddit now?

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by racl101 » Fri, May 31, 2013, 8:10 PM UTC

coherentpony wrote: post #31

I didn't even know this existed until this post happened.

I learned about it just last year and forgot about it again until today. It's just not even much of an option if we're going to be honest, unless you want a minimal experience.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by yuhong » Fri, May 31, 2013, 8:17 PM UTC

mortenjorck wrote: post #109

wwweston wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and IE Mac did not suffer from the "box model" bug that affected IE on Windows. Nope. Just the box model bug that affected all the CSS 2 compliant browsers. ;) It was indeed a pretty good browser for its time, though.

For all the woe brought upon the web by Internet Explorer 6, the "box model bug" is indeed the one thing it did right. It took far too long for everyone else to admit the error and move ahead with the box-sizing CSS spec.

You mean IE5?

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by jonny_eh » Fri, May 31, 2013, 9:17 PM UTC

brokenparser wrote: post #108

duaneb wrote: post #22

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Possibly because they had to please Apple AND Microsoft?

No. It's because MSIE for Windows wouldn't run on MacOS and they couldn't use Wine. (MSFT would never do that.)

Wine wouldn't have worked either since OSX was PowerPC based at the time.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by officemonkey » Fri, May 31, 2013, 9:28 PM UTC

I used Camino since the beginning and I still have it installed my old iMac desktop. To me, it felt more like a Mac OS Browser than Safari.

I've switched my main browser from Safari to Chrome to Firefox, but I always kept Camino around. It's going to bum me out to delete it finally.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by simcop2387 » Fri, May 31, 2013, 11:05 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #98

as_if wrote: post #97

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he's one of the people who partly (because he's still over 10 tabs) gets the current bookmark-systems in browsers. For most users the bookmarks seem to be broken/too complex. Never had the problem, maybe because I'm going crazy when I got over 10 tabs and want to get rid of them ASAP. :\

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I don't use bookmarks, I used to put things in there and never find them when I needed them, so I've stopped doing that.

I'll actually put things in there when I want to remember them. Firefox makes it a little better because you can attach keywords to them to help you search later.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by eclipticplane » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 1:24 AM UTC

rpgmaker wrote: post #102

as_if wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

he's one of the people who partly (because he's still over 10 tabs) gets the current bookmark-systems in browsers. For most users the bookmarks seem to be broken/too complex. Never had the problem, maybe because I'm going crazy when I got over 10 tabs and want to get rid of them ASAP. :\

Just looking around reddit you easily pass the 50 tabs threshold. Bookmarks are far from ideal (at least in firefox) and technically you don't need them today since the history works well in case you need to find something (just typing related terms on the address bar) but the history is erased quite often so it's better to have certain urls bookmarked and using the aforementioned address bar to find what you're look…

I still bookmark, but only because it helps to make sure those results have a higher priority in the address bar.