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Re: Firefox 25 is released

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We love contributors :) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction

This is great! Thanks :) Anyone know of any other open source projects that one can contribute to?

You could look here: https://openhatch.org/

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies. And, even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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As far as I know they stopped when Mozilla tried to abuse their generosity by switching to a shorter release cycle. Not cool, guys!

I don't think Mozilla changed release cycles with the intention of getting more cake...

You never know...

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Still no h.264 on Mac :(

This can not happen because of licenses afaik.

Licensing is the responsibility of the party distributing the codec. When using the platform decoder any licensing fees have already been paid by, e.g. Apple.

This is coming soon.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Since TypeScript is somewhat tracking ES6 proposals it looks like Microsoft will be quick to include it once the spec is finalized.

Will the spec be finalized before IE11 ships? Seems unlikely.

Well since IE11 shipped already with Windows 8.1, no.

I don't expect Microsoft to follow Google and Mozilla with their 6-week release cadence. If they keep to their yearly releases, we will see new features integrated into IE much faster than ever before. As a web developer, I can live with 1 year or less of waiting when specs are finalized.

The real problem is Windows XP has been abandoned so those users cannot upgrade past IE8. They must either upgrade their systems or switch to another browser.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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The search bar close, "Highlight All", "Match Case" buttons moved to the right side of the screen while the addonbar close button is still on the left side.

At least with the addons I have installed moving the close button of the addons bar is not possible.

I prefer the old position of the search bar buttons. The new one forces me to move the mouse to the other edge of the screen and also look at the opposite sides of the screen.

Unlike other elements it isn't possible to change the positions of the search bar buttons.

Not sure why they changed it. Could it be a bug?

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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We love contributors :) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction

This is great! Thanks :) Anyone know of any other open source projects that one can contribute to?

Tor or i2p if you're into crypto and/or making the web safer.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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It's never going to happen on XP.

Depends on whether XP outlasts the H.264 patents (currently 2028 but they like to keep adding new patents to these pools to extend the time they have lock in for). So I'd say it's 50/50.

2028? Its incredible how we're using 18th century understanding of intellectual property in the modern age. The monied interests have really figured out how to game this broken system.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Sorry, you're wrong. I hate to be rude about it, but I'm really getting tired of people, who don't know any better, acting like feature detection is always the way to go. Feature detection simply doesn't work it many cases, and there's no alternative. Especially with new stuff like audio, sometimes function calls need to be called in different orders, have subtly different behaviors, etc., and user-agent sniffing is…

So do what the spec says by default (and if the feature appears to exist), and only deviate for particular UAs. Assume good faith.

I agree in principle. But I've got to get stuff done in the real world. I don't have an extra week to read the 22,554 words of JUST the video/audio spec in HTML5, and try to figure out not just how all the browser versions differ from each other, but also how they differ from the spec:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110113/video.html
Sometimes user-agent sniffing is the only remotely sane thing you can do. Blame the browsers, not the programmers who have to work around their "idiosyncracies".
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