Internet Browser thread (not bowser!)

[Hack&Lube]

Here, I've done what you wanted:

[Hack&Lube]

This might help explain. The various bars are static (unless you modify the ini files directly) but the objects in them can be moved to any bar you want to change the layout. For example, if you want the tab bar to be under the address bar (and then you can even add the quicklinks to the tab bar, check out this tutorial:

http://nontroppo.org/-/media/mainbar.htm

[Hack&Lube]

Here I have the tab bar underneath the address bar but even my quick links are on the tab bar. There are a lot of things you can do. Also make the bar show images and no text and you save even more space. IE: the "MENU" button only has an icon now.

[photon]

I'm going to have to rename this the web browser thread, every time I see it I think:

[FlamesPuck12]

Copied from Funny pictures thread.
http://files.sharenator.com/if_brows...1250-12173.jpg

[theonlywhiteout]

done for ya photon lol

[theonlywhiteout]

Hack can I have your browers INI? I cant seem to make it loko like what you have

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by theonlywhiteout

Hack can I have your browers INI? I cant seem to make it loko like what you have

Just follow the guide I posted.
http://nontroppo.org/-/media/mainbar.htm

Just don't assume the names of the bars mean anything, they are just default settings. Pretend they are numbered bars 1-5. So to get the address bar to the very top, you activate the "Main Bar" which is #1 and remove all the default contents and drag the contents from the address bar onto it. Then when you put the tab bar placement to the top, it will appear under the main bar because the main bar is considered #1 at all times.

[llama64]

Anyone else finding it funny that all the screen-shots have some sort of ad-blocker running?

Come on, add CP to the white list. Be nice to our board overlords

[mykalberta]

Chrome 85% IE 10% Firefrox 5%

I also dislike the amount of memory Chrome uses as I am kind of a tab whore, however the ability to do a google search straight from the address bar is awesome/

[wooohooo]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

Chrome 85% IE 10% Firefrox 5%

I also dislike the amount of memory Chrome uses as I am kind of a tab whore, however the ability to do a google search straight from the address bar is awesome/

You can do that with all the browsers

[MickMcGeough]

IE9 officially released yesterday: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/

I've been using the release candidate extensively to future proof all my sites and I've been trying really hard to reserve judgement. As much good as MS has done in IE9, there were a lot of omissions (at least in CSS3) that were going to make it continue to lag behind Mozilla/Webkit/Opera browsers. Like text shadow. Probably a top 5 most-used CSS3 property.

Sadly the official release didn't add support for it. And the DOM inspector doesn't update after initial load, which means it might have been useful a decade ago but useless today. Box shadow implementation is noticeably different from mozilla/webkit (blur parameter isn't working properly). Some great typographic pseudo classes are ignored, no border images, no css3 keyframe animations(!!!!), no flexible box model.

For the average user, none of this really matters, because guys like me will continue to make websites that look right in IE9. Most sites won't look quite as cool, but most IE users will remain blissfully ignorant because it's their primary browser. Javascript/HA performance is awesome, it finally has a reliable rendering engine for CSS2 stuff, etc. All that stuff is great, but somehow I feel like I've been checking out a girl from behind, with a super sweet ass, but she just turned around and looks like Courtney Love.

[Flames89]

Opera 92% Chrome 7.5% Explorer 0.5%

[Mazrim]

Microsoft should force update all computers with Windows to the new Internet Explorer. I mean, how else will they get big companies like the I work for to finally upgrade past IE6?

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

Microsoft should force update all computers with Windows to the new Internet Explorer. I mean, how else will they get big companies like the I work for to finally upgrade past IE6?

The day Microsoft forces everyone to do something is the day I walk into work and put Ubuntu on all my desktop machines.

No way in hell will I let them force me to put an update on all of my machines that I have not vetted (or at least had the option to).

edit: That said, I think anyone is stupid for not running at least IE 7 on their machines

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by Rathji

The day Microsoft forces everyone to do something is the day I walk into work and put Ubuntu on all my desktop machines.

No way in hell will I let them force me to put an update on all of my machines that I have not vetted (or at least had the option to).

Fine, then don't restrict my ability to install a better browser!

[llama64]

Hurray, Microsoft finally released a browser capable of supporting HTML4 and CSS2.

But I'm not too upset about the lack of CSS3 support. I really don't see the new standards getting widespread support for at least another couple years, and I kind of hope that the text drop-shadow attribute dies with fire soon. It's the new blink tag. So much potential for abuse

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

Microsoft should force update all computers with Windows to the new Internet Explorer. I mean, how else will they get big companies like the I work for to finally upgrade past IE6?

http://ie6countdown.com/

[MickMcGeough]

Originally Posted by llama64

Hurray, Microsoft finally released a browser capable of supporting HTML4 and CSS2.

But I'm not too upset about the lack of CSS3 support. I really don't see the new standards getting widespread support for at least another couple years, and I kind of hope that the text drop-shadow attribute dies with fire soon. It's the new blink tag. So much potential for abuse

You're wrong about CSS3 getting widespread support. It's everywhere today.

I could post a few dozen examples of text-shadow increasing readability, or extending the limited typography options available to web designers without using images, or the SEO benefits of using text instead of images and how text styling in CSS helps to achieve that. Or I could point out the device you've probably got in your pocket that uses the effect extensively in its UI. But instead I'm just going to ask you for one example of a web page that abuses CSS3 text-shadow.

[llama64]

Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

You're wrong about CSS3 getting widespread support. It's everywhere today.

I could post a few dozen examples of text-shadow increasing readability, or extending the limited typography options available to web designers without using images, or the SEO benefits of using text instead of images and how text styling in CSS helps to achieve that. Or I could point out the device you've probably got in your pocket that uses the effect extensively in its UI. But instead I'm just going to ask you for one example of a web page that abuses CSS3 text-shadow.

I can't, because as far as I've seen no one outside of web-designers and other fringe websites has made effective use of it yet - the main reason being it's not properly supported by the baseline of the web (Internet Explorer).

But when it does, I fully expect text-shadow and the new transformations to be abused in ways we can only imagine. I'm not arguing against the new standards (I love them!), just forecasting scarring on our eyeballs once the non-professionals get a hold of it in something like Dreamweaver.