What is Digg?174 Comments
- Xeth, on 10/11/2007, -3/+81No Lynx? This is an outrage!
- vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -1/+77Version 2 was first version of Opera released by Opera Software. Version 1 was created as part of a project at some telco by the to-be founders of Opera Software ASA.
- dragonlink2, on 10/11/2007, -9/+76Maybe there is something I am missing, but why did Opera start at version 2?
- NerveBand, on 10/11/2007, -5/+36I didn't even realize it was SVG until it was pointed out. Opera FTW ^_^
- lostotaku, on 10/11/2007, -0/+31I like how Opera is just a straight line across the board, all by itself.
- kiantech, on 10/11/2007, -25/+55too bad no one cares about safari
everytime I get dugg down another flower blooms in my garden =) - Sarawanan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+30May be your browser (ironically). Try using FireFox if you already are using something else.
- tnatharik, on 10/11/2007, -8/+34Is it just me or my stupid laptop doesn't support .svg?
- ortucis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23Opera is straight.
- classicalcomp, on 10/11/2007, -3/+25Thanks, now I have 20 more browsers to check my HTML in. Anyone know where I can get a version of omniweb 1?
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23Some people are complaining about not being able to view Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) images, so heres a png
http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?srv=img29&img=/8/6/24/f_svg2rasterm_c1ca036.png - stalefries, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Does your positive digg count mean more weeds for you, then? :D
- resplence, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18"Why do people use these oddball formats instead of JPEG?"
Yeah, why do people use these oddball screwdrivers instead of hammers? Perhaps because they serve different purposes.
If there's anything I learned about posting a question or rant on the internet is: you gotta do a little research first. With Wikipedia, you don't even have to search so hard:
"Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated, and either declarative or scripted. Images can contain hyperlinks using outbound simple XLinks."
...nahh I think I'll stick to JPEG at all cases. - gumpy5, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18So IE is like Firefox's great uncle?
- rhabd0mancer, on 10/11/2007, -4/+20Ah, good ol' NCSA Mosaic.
Before that came along, I used a gopher client to surf the internets. - speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18by magic of course... lol
Actually, if you were intelligent, you could figure that out yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_%28Internet_suite%29#History - toast1226, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15@ joannusdeverani You sound like a linux infomercial.
- arcooke, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Didn't Prodigy and Compuserv have their own proprietary browsers? It's been a while, I can't remember.
Wow.. just gave myself a major flashback. Anyone else remember the old happypuppy.com site back when it was like the one and only website for cheat codes? Ya know, the site with the newspaper background image with pee stains on it.. Oh the memories. - Jotaro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Firefox's aging, senile uncle
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?srv=img29&img=/8/6/24/f_svg2rasterm_c1ca036.png
- woojoo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16It won't render properly on Safari, Firefox, nor Camino on a Mac :'(
- geminitojanus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10The internets == everything from IP down.
Gopher therefore is ON the Internet.
Now, if you would have said "The Web" or "HTTP"... - informality, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I tried viewing this on my MacBook:
Safari 3 Beta (my current default browser) messes it up almost completely
Firefox 2.0.0.4 has a disappearing text problem
Camino 1.5, as might be expected, has the same problem as Firefox
Opera 9 renders it beautifully.
Weird. - Sarawanan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12If anyone is interested in checking out Mosaic you can get it here: ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/
- classicalcomp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9sorry I forgot the
/sarcasm - brettmjohnson, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10NCSA Mosaic was not the first web browser. This is a commonly held misconception.
The very first web browser was WorldWideWeb, written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb
Oh, and OmniWeb v1.0 was officially released 17 March 2005, but had been in beta form for almost a year (IIRC) - charliespopcan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Internet Explorer 6.0 was also based on Mosaic, I think.
*checks*
Yep, it's on Wikipedia. Guess it goes to show how important Mosaic was to the internet! - capecodcarl, on 10/11/2007, -8/+15Safari doesn't support SVG at all and Firefox has problems displaying it, at least on Macs. I can see the lines, but when I scroll down the text washes away. Why do people use these oddball formats instead of JPEG?
- tensvb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Not weird at all. Opera has the best SVG support of all browsers.
http://www.codedread.com/svg-support.php - ioannusdeverani, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Lynx saved my life one time. My X Server died, and I need to get to the internet to find out how to fix it. Boy was I glad I had lynx on hand!
- AnonymousFan9, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Umm, for all the people saying only opera supports SVG, I must be missing something because it's working fine in Firefox 2.0.0.3 in Ubuntu for me
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7What the hell is the point? anyways:
ftp://69.59.192.18/pub/next-ftp/next/apps/internet/www/OmniWeb/OmniWeb.1.0
I don't know how to install that, so don't ask. It's old as dirt. - Spr0k3t, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Would you rather EPS or Windows Meta format?
- boran, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Like most stuff ad blocking is built into opera. Just right click an empty part of page and select block content. then click the ads.
- DaveMode, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I remember using Lynx as a freshman in college. When Mosaic came out I couldn't believe my eyes :) Then someone told me Netscape was beter, and so on, etc.
- TokenUser, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I was going to say someting similar. Using gopher to access the WAIS. In conjunction with FTP, Usenet, and Pine ... it was plenty for a 1200 baud modem to handle (I still have some porn sitting on 5.25" floppy discs obtained this way back in 1990? 91??). Then came Lynx ... and that was the beginning of the end.
- bigfkncee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6it wasnt really a browser....just an IE shell
- HesNikke, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6my Safari 3 beta running the latest nightly of showed the svg just fine. scrolling was weird though... i had to hold the option to get a hand tool and be able to drag it around.
- aaronm67, on 10/23/2007, -0/+6Under "Internet Explorer" where it belongs. Avant is just a shell for IE.
- robdiggity, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8*****. Lynx is a major browser. A hell of a lot more major than half of those mozilla variants. There should be a line anchored at 1992 extending through today that says LYNX.
Oh, and Rock Chalk Jayhawk. - 5HTP, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7It's missing that web browser I coded at college last year. Dugg down as inaccurate.
- br0ther, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Konqueror does it without any extras.
- rockmanac, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Not HotJava browser? (Does anyone even remember that?)
Btw.. It seems that the Firefox problem is an isolated one... FF 2.0.0.4 on Ubuntu 7.04 renders it just fine.
-A - Kyderdog, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Macintosh Version 5.5.4:
http://www.omnigroup.com/download/latest/OmniWebEnglish.dmg
anyone say the new comment thing suck in this thread yet? - Purin, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9No wonder why Safari is a good browser: it was based off of a better one, Konqueror. o-0
I still prefer Firefox, though. - Rhino2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5What about Lynx, HRMM?
HRM? oh, how CONVENT that you just "forgot" about teh Lynx. - ADeveria, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4As the person who made this file, I'd like to thank everyone for the helpful comments! When I first made it I realized it was getting hard to figure out at which point to stop adding browsers, so the cutoff point is rather arbitrary. I do, however, intend to add more in the future (of course, anyone else could too).
Nothing like digg comments to have something thoroughly analyzed. :) - Complexium, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Opera has indeed the best SVG support - no doubt.
- coder316, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Look at the long gap between Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7... no wonder alternatives (such as Firefox) took off...
- Rhino2, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5sweet. They even break it down and compress it in .zip file so that'll fit on a floppy disk archive.
Mmm...
by the way, digg renders like crap in Mosics -
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