Posted by Nat Tuck
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:34:00 GMT
I recently got a nice big monitor - 25.5", 1920x1200 - and I discovered a neat feature of modern windowing systems that I really hadn’t used that much previously: non-maximized windows. On my monitor, it’s possible to put two windows next to each other and still have a useful amount of text in both.
Any application or web page that I do that with gets an oddly shaped "screen" to work on: 960x1200. That’s not quite the with of a 1024x768 screen, but something targetting 800x600 will fit fine.
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Posted by Nat Tuck
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:08:00 GMT
Mozilla Firefox 3 limits usable encrypted (SSL) web sites to those who are willing to pay money to one of their approved digital certificate vendors. This policy is bad for the web. Not only does it make users less secure overall by reducing the number of encrypted connections, it damages the basic principle of equality among web participants.
The problem is this: When a Firefox 3 user visits an encrypted web site with a self-signed certificate or a certificate signed by an unapproved (new or non-profit) provider, Firefox doesn’t show the page. Instead, it shows a scary "you are being hacked"-style warning that requires 4 clicks and an "add an exception" dialog box to bypass.
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Tags firefox, mozilla, net.neutrality, ssl, web
