I'm not entirely sure what that's referring to. In Maxthon's case I suspect the reason was to provide compatibility with old corporate websites, or maybe just because maintaining support simply meant not removing it. I don't believe switching them out has ever been popular, but embedding a simple webview was and is. Chromium Edge provides extensive tooling for it in Windows the same way IE once did.
Closer to Vivaldi and like Vivaldi are two different things. Vivaldi is a spiritual successor that appeals to Opera users, and I switched from Thunderbird to M3 the second the preview came out, but it has never been a successor as such. I don't think that would necessarily include all that you mention or in any particular form,[1] but I do think it would include more of it.
The way it's phrased in the blogpost certainly implies something a lot closer to how MyIE2 could switch between Trident and Gecko, I think even with WebKit as well for a bit, and eventually in Maxthon between Trident and Blink, which might even be supported — or at least not removed yet — to this very day.
Perhaps mostly in hindsight, we also know the Maxthon approach is technically infeasible for twice the same reason.[2] First of all, while WebKit allowed for embedding a website rendering view easily as part of an app, Blink stripped out all of that functionality as being bloat not necessary for Chrome(ium), as one of the first major steps of its fork. Secondly Opera's UI was tightly coupled to Presto, not unlike Chrome(ium). So a porting effort would certainly be much more involved than a relatively simple engine swap, and one would assume there would be at least some victims. What stings isn't that they didn't succeed, but that contrary to that blogpost it seems that besides a few minor aspects like implementing FlipBack/FlipForward they didn't even try.
One almost wonders if internally they also had a completely different functional UI prototype that it was decided would need too much time to polish into a stable product.
1 For example, one might import keyboard shortcuts without supporting the old INI format. But before you say anything, I agree as a user that Opera's INI format is superior to possibly all alternatives.↵
2 All the while keeping in mind that Maxthon seems to have done it.↵
He wrote some excellent articles on the Opera Dev blog at one point about a variety of subjects, perhaps most notably "PWAs",[1] but as ersi indicated he also wrote how you'd barely even notice the rendering engine change.
On the same day as announcing that Opera has 300 million users, we're also announcing that for all new products Opera will use WebKit as its rendering engine and V8 as its JavaScript engine. It's built using the open-source Chromium browser as one of its components. Of course, a browser is much more than just a renderer and a JS engine, so this is primarily an "under the hood" change. Consumers will initially notice better site compatibilty, especially with mobile-facing sites - many of which have only been tested in WebKit browsers. The first product will be for Smartphones, which we'll demonstrate at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of the month. Opera Desktop and other products will transition later.
That announcement unmistakably says you'll get something much closer to Vivaldi, although even then I'd struggle to call it under the hood.
I found a reference in a footnote here to what we hope is a better source. It does seem to be 40 years old, but hopefully the basics are still sufficiently on point:
In short the Frisians are people who were sometimes a thorn in the side of the Romans, but around the 3rd of 4th century they vacated Frisia as they became part of the Franks, and after a couple of centuries new people moved in: presumably descendants of the Angles and Saxons who didn't cross to England and/or came back. They were then bestowed the name Frisians by the Franks. By the later middle ages the word Frisian also became synonymous with something like "international merchant."
Whoah, "Frisian was synonymous with 'merchant'; the noun indicated a function in society rather than ethnic descent." Wouldn't it be more like a case of generalised subset (or maybe you know a better term for this)?: Frisians are (tend to be) seafaring merchants, but there are more seafaring merchants than just Frisians. Of course, when they form a powerful guild called Frisian guild, and then the guild collects more members based on profession rather than ethnicity, then it gets closer to synonymy.
A pars pro toto? Similarly I wonder what precisely the evidence is for the claim that "these people are certainly not all Frisians." The target audience is clearly supposed to know. Of course if it meant merchant then it's no different in principle than a name like Baker or Horsebuyer, but speaking from a position of ignorance it doesn't seem particularly implausible that people named "de Vries" are in fact descended from Frisians. The fact that they're not Frisians anymore doesn't tell us anything. Someone with a name like "van Lier" may well have had only a single ancestor who was in fact from Lier.
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Frisians (the people of Frisian coast and Frisian islands) tended to be seafaring merchants historically. Their guilds were so dominant at that that the words Frisian and merchant came to be seen as interchangeable. At the same time, Frisians were all along an ethnicity (a people of a particular place and language) also. Since ethnic Frisians only ever occupied the south-eastern coast of North Sea, I don't see them claiming the whole North Sea to themselves as Frisian Sea. It makes more sense to assume the Frisian Sea was a conceptual stretch by others around the sea who saw Frisians on it way too often.
It's a bit difficult to find how far back Mare Frisium goes. Maybe it was simply the Romans doing a bit of handwaving about what's up north.
Of some minor interest, Latin Wikipedia uses the name Mare Frisium for the Wadden Sea as per an 18th century source, but of course that doesn't tell us anything about the past: https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Frisium
Edit: After some research on Wikipedia, I found that there's Nordfriisk language (Helgoland Frisian) where North Sea is called Weestsiie. But that's the only one, it seems.
That's curious, because the Frisians used to call it the Frisian Sea.
According to spokeswoman Katrien Smet, the Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij had already been informed of the environmental pollution on Friday, it was only on Monday that the consequences became visible and hundreds of fish including eel and pike died. The polluter and the exact substance with which the IJzer was polluted could not yet be determined. According to Katrien Smet of the Flemish Environment Agency, the pollution cannot be contained and does not evaporate. Only rainy weather can dilute the pollution, but for that we have to wait until this night.
Boox Palma is massively better in terms of convenient user interface navigation. Also the hardware specs are such that swipes are genuinely snappy and the touchscreen mostly reacts as expected, ranking up there with an average smartphone, which is frankly awesome. It doesn't have phone features though.
Any indications on battery life yet? I'd assume it's closer to a few days than weeks?
However, Republicans assume there to be impunity in illegal voting and therefore they often register themselves in multiple jurisdictions in order to attempt voting multiple times and it does not deter them that they are found out
Right, that's similar to how I can decide whether I register to vote for the European elections in Belgium or the Netherlands. If I did it in both countries it might potentially "work out" for a few weeks until one or both of them got mad at me after comparing registries. If I weren't a citizen of an EU country but merely a resident I wouldn't be able to do any such thing in the first place.
Your current license, a certified copy of your driving record or other acceptable ID. If you do not have your current out-of-state license and apply for a Tennessee license with a certified copy of your driving record, known as a Motor Vehicle Record (MVR), it must be original, not a copy, and issued no more than 30 days prior to your application date. Proof of Citizenship/Lawful Permanent Residency or Proof of Temporary Legal Presence If there has been a name change from the Proof of Citizenship/Lawful Permanent Residency or Proof of Temporary Legal Presence presented, a certified legal document(s) supporting the name change must also be presented. Examples of supporting documents include a court order, marriage certificate, or divorce decree. Two (2) Proof of Tennessee Residency documents with your name and residential address. A P.O. BOX will not be accepted. Documents must be current and dated within last four (4) months. Proof of full Social Security Number - Social Security Card, W-2 (within last 12 months), payroll check stub, 1099 (within last 12 months)
To get a driver's license somewhere, you need to be a resident. If you're a resident, all that information is already known about you because it's part of the process of becoming a resident. What you need is proof that you're you. Generally said proof also happens to include whether you're a citizen or an alien of some sort, but it's fairly immaterial if it does or doesn't. There are many things not listed on your driver's license or ID that take mere seconds to find out with your driver's license or ID.
Someone who checks a box who's not a citizen is not an eligible applicant. They will not be registered.
For easterners it is weird that in the West both among anti-Marxists and pro-Marxists it is common to view those theories as Marxist. They simply have no connection to the academia or life in general in Warsaw bloc countries, which has a far more direct connection to Marxism.
The Frankfurter Schule is neomarxist, a parallel development independent from Marxism-Leninism. The Warsaw bloc countries don't have a monopoly on Marxism. Besides which, Marx simply attempted to formulate a social theory, not dogma set in stone.
Speaking from a Dutch/Flemish perspective you're never allowed to fish from locks and bridges over navigable water, so I'd be quite surprised if I did see people fishing from a bridge.
« Les eaux sont propres à la baignade à l’heure actuelle », avait commenté Marc Valmassoni, coordinateur eau et santé chez Surfrider, regrettant toutefois que la teneur en produits chimiques ne soit pas prise en compte par les autorités.
Here's a report about the situation as it was a few months ago, by the same Surfrider people. Although I'll note it also explicitly excludes chemical pollution, so I might have to eat my words in that regard. For the athletes' sake, hopefully not.
Surfrider is currently the only association working on water quality and user health at European level. For over 6 months, it has been taking regular samples from the Seine to monitor the bacteriological quality of the water. Bi-monthly samples are taken from the Pont de l’Alma and the Pont Alexandre III, the section of the river where the triathlon, marathon swimming and paratriathlon events will be held. In all, over 14 samples were taken and sent to the laboratory for analysis.
These samples enabled the association to determine the concentrations of E. coli and enterococci, intestinal bacteria and formidable indicators of pollution of faecal origin. Of the 14 samples taken, whether after heavy rain or on a sunny day, only 1 enabled our team to conclude that the quality of the water in the Seine at this particular point was even satisfactory. In accordance with the directive mentioned above, these results are based on only 2 types of bacteria. Other types of pollution (chemical, biological, etc.) are not taken into account in the directive’s definition of bathing water quality.
It is therefore clear that the athletes who will be taking part in the Olympic and Paralympic events planned for the Seine will be swimming in polluted water and taking significant risks to their health. Just like the courageous people who will be taking the opportunity to cool off in the river waters of Paris in the summer of 2025, as announced as part of the Paris City Council’s Bathing Plan.
There are certain algae and toxic waste that you just don't ever want to be near, but the worst you might get from the Seine is probably a bit of diarrhea, if it rained hard recently. Of course the idea is that the latter part of that no longer applies now, but it's nothing like the Yellow River which is full of carcinogenic benzene and many other harmful substances. The reporting seems to be very excited about exaggerating how bad the Seine is (or was).
I'd say that most trains in .nl/.be don't have sockets (or few when they do, give or take perhaps in first class) but the few times I've tried them they were powered.
The train might be innocent though. Maybe someone plugged in something that shorted it.
For months, Russia has been testing the most effective combination of missiles against Ukraine's air defenses The Russians have spent the past two years constantly refining missile strikes against Ukraine and the routes of the missiles, in order to inflict as much damage as possible.
Vivaldi is a spiritual successor that appeals to Opera users, and I switched from Thunderbird to M3 the second the preview came out, but it has never been a successor as such. I don't think that would necessarily include all that you mention or in any particular form,