RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] programmers that don't know tarballs?

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> > And those people tend to fill the site with large images 
> where non is
> > needed.. simply because it looks good in a brochure. For 
> sites selling a
> > product it is good to provide decent pics of what you're 
> selling but more
> > often than not they go way overboard. Even worse is people who've
> > experience in tv commercials.. quicktime movies, flash, 
> java, etc just to
> > spew ad banners. LOL :)
> Ick.  What I hate the most is when somebody makes a stupid 
> animated logo with 
> Java.  I think people deserve to be shot for doing that.  
> Then mozilla starts 
> popping up a bunch of windows and bugging you.  BTW, to fix 
> this, delete 
> libnullplugin.so from the mozilla/plugins directory.  It's 
> usually easy 
> enough to tell that you don't have flash or java without the 
> damn thing 
> bugging you.

I'd like to extend that.  If you use Java applets for anything OTHER THAN
applications, you ought to be shot.  "ooh, look at the pretty moving
pictures" can be done with javascript, gif, png, and many other formats
which do not eat CPU the way Pac-man eats power-pellets.

> > I have no money. People can sue me til they are blue in the face.
> If you're not providing warranty or support or something or 
> trying to sell 
> it, I really doubt they could sue you.  Maybe if netscape 
> integrated it into 
> their browser, which is technically commercial, but still 
> unlikely.  Besides, 
> I don't think anyone is suing those webwasher guys.

If netscape integrates it, netscape is profiting from it, and thus is
liable, not you.

> > It should also have XML/XSL support built in I think. Maybe 
> could do it
> > that way. Just Javascript it. Perfect for lazy people like me.
> Yes.  I don't know about speed, though, but somebody already 
> did something 
> like that, albeit it sucks (it just hides the image after it 
> loads it).

Yeah, they use that on-site a lot to defeat ads in free hosting.
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