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From: Michael G Schwern Date: 17:15 on 03 Jun 2004 Subject: iChat cutsie formatting. Dear iChat, [1] Hope you are well. I like your cute interface to AIM. It makes me forget that I'm sucking up to the devil's teat by using it. However, I have a question... Where's the fucking TURN SMILIES OFF button!? As astounding as this may seem, there are situations where one might not want :) translated into a cute little icon, like code. Also, I might suggest an option to STOP STRIPPING NEWLINES!! As much as I enjoy arbitrary formatting, just occassionally one wants the message they sent to remain unmodified, such as pasting a small diff. Finally, and this is not quite as hateful as the rest, a feature request. iChat gives the illusion of a private conversation between two individuals especially when they're sitting in the same office. However, its really an unsecured conversation spewed out across the Internet. Throw in wireless and you have people blithely transmitting their deepest secrets in the clear. What would be fantastic is some simple client-based encryption. iChat could advertise its willingness to encrypt in its client version string. Key negociation occurs between two crypt-enabled iChat clients as normal chat text supressed from the user's view. Then encrypted data is encoded base64 and sent as perfectly normal text which the client decrypts. All over the existing AIM protocol. Knowing far too many businesses that use AIM for internal communications it would be killer. [1] I know this is not the Apple iLife Team but I figure I'm yelling loud enough that they'll hear me no matter where I post this.
From: Earle Martin Date: 10:06 on 03 Jun 2004 Subject: Flash My hate is of Flash, and of the way that it's quite possible for some halfwit to write a moronic banner advert that appears on streetmap.co.uk and cycles endlessly and gets a death grip on something in Firefox's guts causing the whole application to lock up and become unresponsive thus forcing me to kill it and thus nuke all the twelve or so tabbed windows in it with LOTS OF REALLY FUCKING USEFUL STUFF I WAS READING OR NEEDED TO KEEP OPEN FOR REFERENCE AT SOME LATER POINT. Why doesn't Firefox let you block Flash animations from a certain domain, as well as images? And for that matter, why can't I block images from a certain path on a domain, like "example.com/ads/", as well as from a whole domain? You know what? I've had it with streetmap.co.uk. The amount of crud surrounding the maps on their site has now passed my threshold of "considered harmful".
From: Juerd Date: 20:27 on 30 May 2004 Subject: open in browser Yes, I know that it isn't text/plain. Yes, I know that you don't know how to handle that mime type. But please, PLEASE, can you just TRY to display it without forcing me to save it to disk or to use it with an external application (which also means saving it to disk)? Every browser should have a "open in browser" option in the download dialog that lets you just see the thing as if it's text/plain. I know I'm not the only one who wants this and I'm sure the feature has already been requested a thousand times. Why won't browser coders create this feature? Juerd
From: Earle Martin Date: 10:04 on 27 May 2004 Subject: Pipermail Where is the navigation, once you're looking at a view of any particular week? Huh? Huh? Maybe this is really a Mailman hate, since they seem to be in charge of Pipermail now. Oy.
From: Mark Fowler
Date: 17:25 on 26 May 2004
Subject: Preview.app and opening files
Look moron, the pdf file on disk has changed. If I double click a file
and it's already open you can do one of two things:
1) Bring the window that contains the old version to the front and
reload it from disk and show me the new version
2) Open a new window and show two versions - the already loaded version
and the new version - at the same time.
What I don't want you to do is pop the frickin' window to the front and
show me the *old* version, leaving me to spend half an hour debugging the
script that created the file trying to work out why it hasn't changed the
output.
FFS.
Mark.
From: Nicholas Clark Date: 17:08 on 26 May 2004 Subject: Safari So I'm using Safari, and I want to look at this file, but it mangles it and treats it as HTML: http://axpoint.axkit.org/example.axp.txt So I decide to save to disk and look at it in my text editor So I click "Save linked file as" and I am presented with a dialogue with the suggested name "example.axp.html", with "example.axp" highlighted. I replace ".html" with ".txt" A modal dialogue appears: "You cannot save this document with the extension ".txt" at the end of the name. The required extension is ".html' and in smaller print "You can choose to use both, so that your file names ends in ".txt.html" Of course I fucking should be able to fucking save the fucking thing with whatever fucking name I fucking want. I'm the fucking user and the computer is my fucking tool, not my fucking master. And, oh, so smart computer, you know what I'm damn well going to do? Yes. Save the fucking file with the name you fucking insist on, and then go into the bloody finder, take advantage of the hateful default action for return, and rename the bloody thing to .txt. Which I did with no errors or warnings or nagging or swearing or V signs. I should be able to do this from the fucking start. Get that? Or do I have to re-program you with a fire axe? Nicholas Clark
From: Geoff Richards Date: 01:36 on 21 May 2004 Subject: Firefox, it's a bloody quotation mark I've experienced the pure pain of character sets and character encodings by trying to write Perl that could countenance the possibility that there might exist characters outside of ASCII. For the programmer it can be hell. So I'm very appreciative of the Mozilla/Firefox developers, because they're web browsers usually get this right. Usually. So I can look at Japanese text, and all the most obscure kanji get displayed perfectly. But why is it that the opening single-quote (‘) eludes my web browser? Every other strange character it can display perfectly, but not U+2018. It is the one simple character that comes out as a box. Firefox seems to have some sort of blind spot for that particular glyph. My hate is dampened, though, by the joy of discovering optical mice. All those years of my mouse being gunked up and refusing to move to the one piece of screen space I most want to point at. But a cheap optical mouse makes life worth living again... ahhhh, point, point, drag, ... pure luxury.
From: David Cantrell Date: 08:57 on 19 May 2004 Subject: Microsoft Lookout Lookout, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. On second thoughts, let me not. Something so predictable would bore you all to tears. Let me just grumble about one particular hateful feature. When you select a message, and view it and read it *it is not marked as having been read*. Messages are only marked as having been read when you move to another message.
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 23:54 on 18 May 2004 Subject: a minor Mozilla hate Why, oh why, when I open preferences, can it not remember what I last wanted to alter? I never look at 'Navigator' but it's always expanded. 90% of the time I'm after 'Advanced/Scripts and Plugins', but it is always shown collapsed, despite the fact that I always leave it open as a hint. Yes, it's only two more mouse-clicks, or maybe three if I want to collapse the first one, but it's just plain dumb to think that you know what the user wants to modify, not on the basis of her previous actions, but on the basis of 'knowing what people want'. I need a preference for the preferences... That is just wrong.
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