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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
Apparently someone started a project to replicate the Opera UI, although I don't know whether they'll actually be replicating those parts I consider most important: http://otter-browser.org/

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=15069532
Quote from: woj-tek
OK, this will be spammy but hey - forums will be closed soon anyhow and I think it's very relevant / interesting... http://otter-browser.org/ - basically a project aiming to mimic Opera 12.x UI and functions. It's still in early stages (AFAIKR alpha 1 binaries will be released tomorrow), it's based on Qt5 with (currently) WebKit as rendering engine (author mentions Blink in the feature, possibly other?). From the looks of the screenshots it looks promissing - basically what Opera promised - an old Opera 12 UI with webkit/blink engine underneath.


I glanced at the changelog and one feature is making me excited without even having seen it:
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0.1.01 (01.01.2014):
[…]
- implemented tab detaching;

Opera hasn't had proper tab detaching anymore since, what, 9.2? But of course I'll have to try it to know exactly what the author meant.
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Forum Administration / Re: Forum requirements and (un)desirables
Alright, patching in support for selectSingleNode makes the quick quote now also work in Chromium and Firefox. I fixed up the smilies handling code up to work with this forum, and  I changed the the generated images bbcode from [IMG=http://etc] to [img]http://etc[/img].

What this means is that in Opera it properly handles lists, smilies, images, and some text styling. In Chromium and Firefox lists fail for some reason, but it does still handle the rest.

There are obvious issues left, but I trust this will stifle any cries for removal of the experimental quick quote.

NB This doesn't mean I might not use the other as a basis instead. It just means that the My Opera Enhancements quick quote is quite significantly more functional than the other even in a broken state, with rather little work involved.
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Hobbies & Entertainment / Re: Food
Today's lunch hardly qualifies as cooking either, but I think it was a successful experiment.

Ingredients:

  • 1 or 2 eggs (I used one fairly large egg)
  • 1 avocado
  • a bunch of sprouts (I used alfalfa, leek, and radish)
  • 2 medium-sized tortillas

I fried the egg over medium, and right after flipping it over I put the two tortillas on top to heat them up. Meanwhile I sliced open the avocado, after which flipped the tortillas around to heat them from the other side. I subsequently put a plate, knife, and spoon into position, and took the sprouts out of the fridge. By that time the egg was done, so I transfered the tortillas and egg to the plate, sliced the egg in two to put half in the top middle of each tortillas, and divided the avocado on top. To finish I "garnished" it with copious amounts of sprouts.
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The Lounge / Re: Random Chat
I don't understand what people like about ice-cold drinks. It hides the flavor of things that are otherwise unpalatable.
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DnD Central / Re: The Problem with Atheism
Quote from: Barulheira on
This one has taken a lot of posts. In my point of view, the concept of immaterial isn't necessarily denied by atheists; they just don't see a reason to take it seriously, or even to take it at all. When someone comes up with arguments that the "immaterial" should be taking seriously, some problem arises.

Oh, but I do take metaphysics quite seriously. Metaphysics is what you infer from what you think science has proved. As ersi said, "You use [metaphysical concepts] daily and they are indispensable." However, I have an issue with ersi's use of the word "immaterial" to describe metaphysics, because I hold metaphysical naturalism to be true.

Quote from: Josh on
Am I ?

Nope. :P It's short for the most important problem, not the only problem. The problem with fishing in the wrong time of year is that you're severely diminishing next year's population, but problems like destroying the bottom of the ocean remain no matter when you fish.
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Forum Administration / Re: Forum requirements and (un)desirables
Quote from: Josh on

     
  • that the numbered list had an option to look like "1)",

That's not part of the system: http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/List

What's wrong with this?
1) blabla
2) blabla

If you want the specific list display, use type=none

  • 1) bla

  • 2) bla


Quote from: Josh on

     
  • that among the editing tools we had a modest list of the most used/required punctuation (or(and) some other) symbols (Unicode?)

I don't really understand the punctuation part of the question, but what kind of symbols are you talking about?
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DnD Central / Re: Grammatical Mutterings
Quote from: ersi on
In case of a live dialect, the native grows up with the dialect in his/her ears. My country is highly literate and small enough so that dialect differences should be non-existent, yet occasionally I meet people who are grossly attached to their dialect and whose place of origin can thus be placed.

The Netherlands and Belgium are said to have "een ander dialect elke tien minuten" (another dialect every ten minutes). That's a bit of an exaggeration because of dialect continua, but it does seem as if dialects in larger countries like Germany are more spread out. Perhaps it's simply a matter of population density: especially Flanders, Brabant, and Holland have been some of the most densely populated areas of Europe for almost a millennium.

I should add a note about Belgium. The Netherlands had a proper standard language to compete with the likes of French, English, and German since the early 17th century at the latest. However, in Belgium (Spanish/Austrian Netherlands) French was the prestigious standard language while the Dutch dialects were undervalued. As such Belgian-Dutch dialects are still very much alive—much more so than the perishing Netherlandic-Dutch dialects which have been in sharp decline since the 19th century at the latest. They're not dead yet because there were never any French-style discriminatory language policies, but they're hardly thriving either.