Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thunderbird is nice that way. You can tell it to render HTML by default, and even images if they're included in the body of the e-mail, but tell it to NOT render anything which requires connections to external servers unless you click a Show Images but

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello? I don't think that should make any difference. I should be able to visit absolutely any website on the Internet without any danger to my computer or the data stored on it. Any browser which allows otherwise has a bug. Javascript is not inherentl

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-27 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Bokma wrote: > Chris Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>John Bokma wrote: >> >>>Chris Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [HTML] > > >>>It can be made much faster. Th

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-26 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Bokma wrote: > Chris Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>John Bokma wrote: > > >>>>Additionally, a user interface operating inside an HTML >>>>renderer can NEVER be as fast as a native-c

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Bokma wrote: [snip] >>usage consists of downloading your e-mail. When using a Webmail >>service, your bandwidth usage consists of downloading the message, >>PLUS the entire user interface. > > > Not necessary when using (i)frames + cache True.

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > ... and generally these "web based message boards" (i.e. forums I > assume you mean) have none of the useful tools that Usenet offers and > are much, much slower. [snip] Arrgh, I *emphatically* *hate* Web-based-(almos