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needless to say, i feel old-fashioned, behind on the hip buzzwords, and slightly stupid, too.
added on the 2008-09-02 11:18:10 by skrebbel skrebbel
In this context I've always understood it as "fancy mac term for border" yes :)

Too bad these "chromeless window" tricks aren't possible anymore, it allowed for pretty interesting things. But I guess the security risk of having a browser window that was not really recognizable as a separate window was a too big.
added on the 2008-09-02 11:23:05 by stijn stijn
Oh, as far as I understood it, chrome:// is the way of referencing the browser window itself, as opposed to a web page, in XUL (mozilla extension/gui scripting thing). But someone will probably correct me there.
added on the 2008-09-02 11:24:36 by stijn stijn
skrebbel: Whenever I want to change anything in Firefox, some wikipedia or Digg-article always refer me to change something in "the chrome config file".
added on the 2008-09-02 11:31:00 by gloom gloom
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added on the 2008-09-02 11:33:51 by willbe willbe
oh my god, so "chrome" really is a hip css-homo word for border. why? what was ever wrong with "border"?
added on the 2008-09-02 11:37:18 by skrebbel skrebbel
Actually!

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added on the 2008-09-02 12:18:33 by stijn stijn
It's pretty neat that the near-40 page comic book is actually helpful against pretty much any poorly founded and retarded post in this thread.

I suggest you read it.
added on the 2008-09-02 13:18:05 by Shifter Shifter
what shifter said.
added on the 2008-09-02 13:20:00 by v3nom v3nom
I loved the comic book, yeah.
added on the 2008-09-02 13:41:45 by kusma kusma
comics have always been the best pedagogy/propaganda means ;)

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added on the 2008-09-02 13:52:54 by Zest Zest
crap.
added on the 2008-09-02 14:30:15 by leGend leGend
People that use browsers are faggots. I read the internet through telnet in ASCII motherfuckers!
added on the 2008-09-02 14:33:59 by okkie okkie
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People that use browsers are faggots.

Hello there, sailor!
added on the 2008-09-02 14:45:20 by Shifter Shifter
Oh come on. The comic was gay. And so are tabs! What, I have to select my browser window and THEN click on the tab I want, rather than just selecting the browser window I want? If people have a problem with the way windows work in windowing systems, why not work on that, instead of creating a new windowing system for each application?

Isolating each browser session is nice, but this type of thinking is supposed to be revolutionary or something? That's just using a MULTITASKING operating system the way it's meant to be used.

And why can't they call a JIT compiler what it is instead of pretending to have just invented the concept?

Etc.
added on the 2008-09-02 14:58:26 by doomdoom doomdoom
5 hours till a beta is available, for some reason i am really exited.
added on the 2008-09-02 15:14:08 by alumunum alumunum
I heard it was delayed...
added on the 2008-09-02 15:21:56 by rc55 rc55
for some reason, i just don't fucking care at all
alumunum: interesting but i am also excited.

in the end, even if it might turn out to be a bad idea, if one can try it and also is brave enough to try; then why not?

just give it a go, and if you don't like it then don't use it. and for fuck's sake stop bitching about it before you even get to see it running...
added on the 2008-09-02 15:31:06 by decipher decipher
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The comic was gay.

Comin' right back atcha!

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What, I have to select my browser window and THEN click on the tab I want, rather than just selecting the browser window I want?

I guess you've never worked tabs. Else you'd know just how dumb this sounds.

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That's just using a MULTITASKING operating system the way it's meant to be used.

Except this has not been properly done for a browser before.

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And why can't they call a JIT compiler what it is instead of pretending to have just invented the concept?

Because the target audience never knew the loving caress of being a bitter Amiga freak? The comic is a pretty simplistic (but clear) outline for the average user.
added on the 2008-09-02 15:41:50 by Shifter Shifter
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Except this has not been properly done for a browser before.
You forgot IE8 ... hum... yeah forget it. :p
added on the 2008-09-02 16:00:54 by p01 p01
yeah, the keyword being "proper" :(
added on the 2008-09-02 16:03:27 by Shifter Shifter
This JIT thing. I wonder.. Is it a JIT like the Java ones from 98/99 ? I mean: compile only when loading a code file? It seems to me Javascript has dynamic object types meaning not everything can be JITted or it has to be compiled anew from time to time?
added on the 2008-09-02 16:52:32 by earx earx
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lets have an operating system inside an operating system!!

but ps.. virtualization is the future!!!
so, where are the demos?
added on the 2008-09-02 17:02:52 by jmagic jmagic

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