It's been a long and interesting day...
Pull down the 'Options' menu, grab the 'Window and Link styles' page, and change the default "home page location" from netscape's to whatever you want.
Oh. *Those* advertisements! I couldn't for the life of me figure out *what* Tim was talking about. I've made mine come up blank since the initial, "Hey, what do these twiddly bits in the Preferences command do...", session after the first download. You can also put up a type-it-yourself URL window on the browser window, which comes in handy now that you have to wait 10 seconds (on my dinky PB 180) every time you change code modules in 2.0b3 Netscape (like touching<!> the menu bar for the first time, or looking at the bookmark window)... Like I've said elsewhere, Netscape is hierarchical code trying to conquer a geodesic (a word I got from Bucky Fuller, through Peter Huber, just so I keep my attributions straight...) network. It ain't gonna fly, in the long run, folks. In that vein, could someone e-mail me the best non-netscape Mac browser, so I don't get HTML-nasties when I go play on the cactus machine? Anyway... Dave Winer(sp?), the Mac-Developer-turned-gadfly (speak not ill of the other gadflies, I always say...), talks about seeing some Netscape (sorry...) patches which actually *do* strip banner ads from various web-pages. I believe you have to tell it which pages, and what the banners' file names are, but I'm not sure. Don't know where *Weiner(sp?)* got it from... I seem to remember the name "Ad Stripper" but I could be imagining things... Of course, if that's the way this code really operates, simply changing the name of the HREF call regularly on the server side, which is probably done anyway, with all the web-management code showing up out there, defeats ad-filters of this kind completely... Obcrypto: Maybe these web-pages will send you nanocash (not mine, either, sorry, taken from one of the wearable-people at mobileworld, I'll look up their name, and get back to you. soon. I promise.) to watch their message? Also, could someone talk here about how easy it might be to spoof Java "byte code"? The Java presentation at this conference had a lot of hand-waving and reverent invocation of Whit Diffie's name, so it might not be trivial. Another feature of this presentation was a really splendid "subjective axis" chart showing how "powerful" Java is in comparison to say, client-server, HTML, and other "technologies". This chart reminded me for all the world of the famous "Pravda Charts" that Tufte likes to lampoon in "The Graphical Representation of Quantitative Information". Just so I keep my sources straight. Of course. To quote Prof. Tufte. "If it looks like a duck, ignore it." Or something to that effect. Maybe the word "waddle" was in the sentence. Maybe he got it from someone else... I'll get back to you on that. I really will... ;-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 958-3971 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The NEW(!) e$ Home Page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/
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