dmd support for IDEs

Lars T. Kyllingstad public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet
Mon Oct 12 14:05:00 PDT 2009


Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Don" <nospam at nospam.com> wrote in message 
> news:haumhk$1oet$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Jeremie Pelletier" <jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:hats2b$as0$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> It has pros and cons, Firefox too has the native look and feel without 
>>>> using the native controls, so it saves on the overhead of tons of GDI 
>>>> handles and can render the entire GUI in cairo.
>>> I use FF a lot and umm...no it doesn't. Not remotely. It's always stood 
>>> out as every bit of a blatant GTK app as GAIM, GIMP, or Thunderbird. As 
>>> soon as I can find a browser with equivilents too all my essential hacks 
>>> (*cough* extensions) and *real* controls (which rules out IE and Opera. 
>>> And Chrome/Safari... AH HA HA HA!), then I'm ditching this garbage.
>> Are you talking about FF 3.5? It's a really poor product. Crashes all the 
>> time, has some terrible UI misfeatures. I'm really amazed they shipped it 
>> in that condition.
> 
> Never touched FF3.5, I tried FF3 and it was such a worthless POS I went back 
> to FF2, which is still a total POS, or course, but at least this way I have 
> separate back/forward dropdowns, winestripe actually works, and I have no 
> awfulbar *without* needing an anti-awfulbar addon (mozilla's standard 
> strategy: force idiotic ill-conceived changes on everyone and rely on 
> third-party add-on hacks for anyone who wants it fixed).


Um, so why are you still using FF at all? :)

-Lars



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