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Re: on competition

Gervase Markham — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:34:41 -0000

Dylan: how do you judge "better" in rendering engines? Is there just one criteria? Or lots of different ones, such that one renderer might be better in one area, and another in another? If so, how do you combine them to make an overall decision?

Also, who is "Mozilla" in your question? John is CEO of MoCo, but he doesn't get to decide what rendering engine the Mozilla project uses for its browser. Even if MoCo decided to do a new Firefox based on Webkit, there's no guarantee other project contributors would want to join in. It's a free software project - unless you pay someone, you don't get control of their time.

But let's bypass those massive problems with your point and, for the sake of argument, say that "Mozilla" had evaluated Webkit and found it "better". Your argument would be that they should then switch. Do you have any idea how much work that would be? How much of Firefox would need to be rewritten? How long it would take? Would it be in the best interests of Firefox users for the developers to spend years doing something which basically put them back in roughly the same place they used to be?

Re: Semi-random brainstorming

Gervase Markham — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:05:10 -0000

Some thoughts, then:

What does Tab Stacks buy you? Haven't you just reinvented, er, windows (i.e. a way to group collections of tabs)?

On the Download Manager mockup, where do the ratings come from? What is the Type column for?

The tagging stuff looks interesting, but how does it fit in with Places? How do we get people past the "Hey? Where are my bookmarks? And how do I bookmark a page now?" thing?

Re: Spicy sausage and bean stew

Gervase Markham — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:35:34 -0000

How many people does it serve?

Does it really need "an hour or two" to simmer? Would, say, 45 minutes be enough?

I'm going to make this for guests on Thursday.

Gerv

Re: Newsletter news: the name, the schedule, and how to sign up!

Gervase Markham — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:12:18 -0000

Looks good. I second the request for an Atom feed.

I hope we are going to do DNS aliasing or whatever so the messages don't come from e.g. mozilla.mailchimp.com. We're trying to teach people _not_ to trust that sort of thing for phishing reasons (think citibank.p0wn3d.com).

Gerv

Re: Games, games, games

Gervase Markham — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:48:58 -0000

Settlers rocks. We had fun this evening playing Set (http://www.setgame.com/) which is a great, quick game for any number of players, the only disadvantage being that whatever way you try and describe it, it sounds _really_ geeky. That may not be a problem with your friends, I don't know.

I also love Roborally, although it's hard to get hold of. Fluxx is fun for a while, Aquarius is good for novice gamers, Zendo (although it doesn't come as a boxed set any more) is great too.

Fun fact: with careful packing, the entirety of Settlers plus the 5-6 player expansion can fit in the (much smaller) box for the 5-6 player expansion. :-)