Dave Uhring wrote:

> Firefox has yet to reach version 1.0 let alone 1.7.3. Perhaps you meant
> that you used Mozilla.

Upon closer inspection it does appear to be 1.0, however it also has the
following qualifier; Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; rv:1.7.3).

>
> Well, some of us prefer pretty graphics and some prefer numbers :-)
>

ahem - I think the point that I was trying to make was that the
interactive visual presentation enhances the raw statistics that are
also presented for the edification of the numerically minded ;-)

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:49:46 +1100, Andrew Tyson wrote:

> Dave Uhring wrote:
>
>> Firefox has yet to reach version 1.0 let alone 1.7.3. Perhaps you meant
>> that you used Mozilla.
>
> Upon closer inspection it does appear to be 1.0, however it also has the
> following qualifier; Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; rv:1.7.3).

It might be that firefox retains the revision number from its mozilla
parent.

>> Well, some of us prefer pretty graphics and some prefer numbers :-)
>>
>
> ahem - I think the point that I was trying to make was that the
> interactive visual presentation enhances the raw statistics that are
> also presented for the edification of the numerically minded ;-)

Different strokes for different folks :-)

Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> writes:

> BTW, I have *never* seen a useful application of Flash. Information which
> cannot be presented in HTML and JPEG is hardly useful.

I was in your camp until the past year or so, after I've finally
seen a small handful of useful applications.

CNN's election results site is one of them.
(http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pag...lts/president/)

But again, I highly recommend a advertising suppressing proxy.

To keep this marginally on topic, I'm viewing the above site
with mozilla and flash player 6 on Solaris x86.

tim

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:47:16 -0500, Tim wrote:

> Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> BTW, I have *never* seen a useful application of Flash. Information which
>> cannot be presented in HTML and JPEG is hardly useful.
>
> I was in your camp until the past year or so, after I've finally
> seen a small handful of useful applications.

Call me a retro retard if you wish. I just do not permit strangers' code
to be executed on my machines.

> > Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> writes:
> Call me a retro retard if you wish. I just do not permit strangers' code
> to be executed on my machines.

Code your own OS then, do you?

--
Steven Hill

I am pink, therefore I am spam

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 09:08:05 +0000, Steven Hill wrote:

>> > Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> writes:
>> Call me a retro retard if you wish. I just do not permit strangers' code
>> to be executed on my machines.
>
> Code your own OS then, do you?

I don't exactly consider Sun Microsystems a stranger. OTOH I do consider
CNN and their contractors as such.