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Re: How swipe typing makes communicating easier for those with physical disabilities

Rijk — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:10:28 -0000

RIP dear Mihai.

Re: console.mihai(); - Incompleteness

Rijk — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:54:25 -0000

Rest in peace, dear Mihai

Re: Your Laptop Screen Just Got Smaller

Rijk — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:37:28 -0000

Please... w3schools.com has nothing to do with W3C, there are no 'W3C statistics' on screen size.

Re: Opera+Mobile+10+Beta+For+Nokia+And+Other+Symbian%2FS60+Smartphones%26nbsp%3BReleased

Rijk — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:55:56 -0000

Opera Mobile is a complete web browser installed on your mobile phone—all the code rendering and JavaScript interaction happens on your mobile.

This is in contrast to Opera Mini, where the rendering happens on the server and a compressed version is then sent to the handset.

And yes, the new betas of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10 look very similar and are operated in much the same way.

Re: The Public Debate

Rijk — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:10:22 -0000

I watched from The Netherlands, were it was broadcast, in the middle of the night unfortunately. And I was glad to see two candidates that actually seemed to be interested in the rest of the world, had been around, were intelligent, etc. Neither of them would be a disaster.

It is a pity that the general campaign discussions we are seeing on the net are so ruthlessly partisan, with people not understanding why anybody could possibly support 'the other guy'. And that with both of these candidates initially appealing to 'change', getting away from the culture wars etc. It seems their supporters missed the memo.

Re: Oh, btw, I have a job... - RussellBeattie.com

Rijk — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:53:38 -0000

Have fun in your new job!

I'm not going anywhere soon, but if I suddenly had to go to office daily I'd have the same clothing problem.

Re: Still Struggling with Social Networking - RussellBeattie.com

Rijk — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:55:44 -0000

I'm with you, Russell. I'm on facebook because a bunch of colleagues are there, but for interaction we use normal mail and IRC... The Dutch myspace is hyves.nl, and well, I may have connected to a few old friends there, it doesn't make me more social I'm afraid. Twitter is the only 'new' thing that doesn't already bore me.

I'm a bit afraid tweethater may have a point too though :)

Re: The Daily News - RussellBeattie.com

Rijk — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:44:57 -0000

I'd love to see something like that as well. With an emphasis on European news :)

I'm subscribed to "BBC News | World Edition" but it is polluted with British stuff, for example way too much British crime news. Brits can't get enough news about kidnapped and murdered kids/teens it seems.

Re: RussellBeattie.com - Thirty Six Years Old

Rijk — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:36:16 -0000

Congratulations, young one.

Re: Plaxo: the social monster?

Rijk — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:10:47 -0000

I totally don't understand the problem. I'm a bit like Judi Sohn - I don't want someone I don't really know to have access to my profile, so I do not 'friend' such people on Facebook.

People seem to have mixed up expectations. It should be utterly obvious that the 'FAN ONLY' permission type Robert mentions does not exist at the moment - so why expect that to be honored?

Re: RussellBeattie.com - Lies, damn lies and mobile browser market share reports

Rijk — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:58:55 -0000

They changed their methodology or something like that for this report - retroactively. Opera Mini was previously reported at 0.64% and now it is suddenly 0.03%. No explanations (as if they explain much anyway... but nevermind). Interestingly, the My Opera community users can get statistics on their blogs, and there the 'old' statistics are shown, with Opera Mini at 0.66% for November (see here: http://operawatch.com/news/... ). Crazy!

Re: One browser feature that would take the market!

Rijk — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:55:32 -0000

Eehm... don't want to rub it in, but Opera has had this feature for some time - since Opera 7 IIRC. Form content will be cached until you close the tab, so pressing 'Back' will restore the content of form fields. The most recent releases of the others, Firefox 2.0 and MSIE 7.0 also offer this now, copying from the innovator :)

Things might go wrong, especially in MSIE and Firefox, if your compose field is on a page that forbids any caching. Opera is a bit more conversative, and more often eschews refreshing the page on pressing 'Back'.

Re: How to Fix Google Reader in Opera

Rijk — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:47:58 -0000

Don't use the cache folder for permanent storage, that's not smart... Simply create a new folder, for example under your profile directory, and download your user.js files to that folder. See 'Help > About Opera' is you want to learn where Opera currently stores data.

The userscript checks for which website it is intended by itself, so you don't really need to use Site Specific Preferences, you can also enable 'User JavaScript' for all pages by selecting a directory for userscripts in 'Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content > JavaScript options...'

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Rijk — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:11:10 -0000

There might have been other browser before with close buttons on tabs, but Safari introduced them in its version 1.x. Opera added them in Opera 8 (with the option to revert to the real MDI buttons like it always had had). The Firefox team is the only one that did some serious usability research some time ago, and the change in Firefox 2 is the result of this research.

Saved sessions (autorestore after crash, or always if you want) have been with Opera since Opera 4 or 5. Omniweb on Mac also has extensive session features. Firefox 2 is now getting some - and IE7 doesn't have them, nor Safari, IIANM.

Re: Monkeying with Scifipedia

Rijk — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:05:04 -0000

This userscript also works well in Opera 9.

Re: Google Promotes First Non Google Product on Homepage

Rijk — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:02:28 -0000

Am I the only one who doesn't see the point in adding this visual bloat called 'searchbar' to any browser?

Re: Google Promotes First Non Google Product on Homepage

Rijk — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:02:28 -0000

Am I the only one who doesn't see the point in adding this visual bloat called 'searchbar' to any browser?

Re: IE 7 getting some props from security expert

Rijk — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:41:09 -0000

You really know how to cherrypick Schneier's article :)

He didn't exactly say he liked IE7. He's just happy about the announced changes in security, because a browser used by the masses will become less insecure, hopefuly much less.

Quote:
"I'm not switching from Opera yet, and my second choice is still Firefox. But the masses still use IE, and our security depends in part on those masses keeping their computers worm-free and bot-free."

Re: One wish for 2006…

Rijk — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:30:45 -0000

Hi Robert,

You really should check out Opera for your mobile browsing needs. If your phone can run Java Applets, you can try Opera Mini at
http://www.opera.com/downlo...

If it is a "Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003" (who comes up with these names?) there is a version of the full mobile offering available for you:
http://www.opera.com/produc...

Re: Tim Bray says corporate sites’ HTML is borked

Rijk — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:08:13 -0000

I typed feed in the search box on http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
The second result was the feed URL.

But I agree that even the awful XML button would be better usability, if you are visiting his site in MSIE. Let's hope the situation will be resolved in the near future, when everyone will use a modern browser.

Re: Reload vs Refresh

Rijk — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:57:17 -0000

@Chris:

I think 'Refresh' in Explorer asks the server if the file has been updated, and uses the cache if that is not the case. A hard reload in Explorer retrieves the file from the server directly, regardless.

'Reload from cache' in Opera does not contact the server at all. IE also gives you the source in a plain text editor when using View > Source, but I see no way to make the edits I could do there show in the browser.

Re: Feed Needs

Rijk — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 05:08:17 -0000

If people post interesting content once in a while, I don't mind going over to their website to read it.

But if you'd post such stuff daily, I really appreciate a full-text feed. My feed-reader can handle HTML in an RSS 2.0 or Atom feed just fine :)

Re: Redesign

Rijk — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:24:15 -0000

Many good things don't get noticed :)

While many webmasters fuss over little details, they'll only get ffedback if their design is either gorgeously beautiful, or usability-hurting ugly. Your current design is a bit bland (though the pictures masthead is nice. Your previous color choices were, well, maybe even worse than mine. Just my 2 cts!

Re: rel=brother

Rijk — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:38:59 -0000

That should be rel=sibling, spec-lover :)

http://gmpg.org/xfn/

Re: How to make hot chocolate in the microwave

Rijk — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 05:13:57 -0000

What lousy microwaves you've got. 60 seconds is enough here!