On Wednesday 10 September 2008 13:40:22 you wrote:
Awesome! I didn't know FF supported it yet. Are you sure that FF isn't launching a 3rd party app, like Luke suggested? If it truly is being rendered by the browser and not a proprietary plugin (even if it IS MPlayer :-P) then that's awesome.
Monolithic browsers are stupid anyway. Konqueror uses a "plugin" for everything, including HTML. There is no reason to have a proprietary or embedded implementation of a codec in a web browser.
Do you know what monolithic means?
J.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Luke -Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
Monolithic browsers are stupid anyway. Konqueror uses a "plugin" for everything, including HTML. There is no reason to have a proprietary or embedded implementation of a codec in a web browser.
i wonder if anyone has created a file system based on SQLite plus FTS3. That would be cool.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Jeffrey Watts jeffrey.w.watts@gmail.com wrote:
Do you know what monolithic means?
J.
David,
You wouldn't happen, on the off chance, to be related to Steve Nordquist would you?
:p
Thanks, -- Hal
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:57:08PM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
i wonder if anyone has created a file system based on SQLite plus FTS3. That would be cool.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Jeffrey Watts jeffrey.w.watts@gmail.com wrote:
Do you know what monolithic means?
J.
Does both serving as officers in the UMKC CSTP ACM student chapter in 1994 count as "related?"
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Hal Duston hald@kc.rr.com wrote:
David,
You wouldn't happen, on the off chance, to be related to Steve Nordquist would you?
:p
Thanks,
Hal
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:57:08PM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
i wonder if anyone has created a file system based on SQLite plus FTS3. That would be cool.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Jeffrey Watts jeffrey.w.watts@gmail.com wrote:
Do you know what monolithic means?
J.
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I'm sorry, my response to Hal Duston was intended as a direct reply rather than an on-list reply.
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 15:39:25 Jeffrey Watts wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Luke -Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
Monolithic browsers are stupid anyway. Konqueror uses a "plugin" for everything, including HTML. There is no reason to have a proprietary or embedded implementation of a codec in a web browser.
Do you know what monolithic means?
Of course. Do you know how to reply to emails?
Apparently you don't.
"Monolithic" when used in reference to a computer system refers to kernel design. It's not really used formally for much else, but it is used informally in circumstances like the one you mentioned.
However, your understanding does not seem to be correct. "Monolithic", used casually, would refer to a program that does all of its functions within itself - single process, single memory space. In your example, Konqueror is indeed just as "monolithic" as everything else you mentioned. As Linus famously demonstrated to that arrogant fool Tanenbaum, being monolithic doesn't make a design bad. It's all about the implementation and the practicalities.
The word you were looking for was _modular_. I won't debate with you how "modular" Konqueror is in relation to other browsers as I don't care and I don't use KDE, but I would point out that Mozilla is "modular" as well by your definition (it uses plugins to handle a lot of things) - probably not as much, but then again "more modular" doesn't logically imply "better" (see my Linus example above) - so your argument is a bit weak.
Jeffrey.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Luke -Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 15:39:25 Jeffrey Watts wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Luke -Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
Monolithic browsers are stupid anyway. Konqueror uses a "plugin" for everything, including HTML. There is no reason to have a proprietary or embedded implementation of a codec in a web browser.
Do you know what monolithic means?
Of course. Do you know how to reply to emails?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Jeffrey Watts jeffrey.w.watts@gmail.com wrote:
Apparently you don't.
"Monolithic"
So. Kernel-mode X, Kernel-mode web browser. Is the /bin/trustedhack sufficient or would massive re-engineering be required, to make these things multitask cooperatively instead of preemptively?
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