SillyDog701

by **Hendikins** » Mon 02 Dec, 2002 11:52 pm

What's to be said?

Release Notes
Fetch!

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by **profman** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 12:22 am

Had to wait a few minutes tonight for it to show up on the ftp server, but I'm sure its worth the wait. I'll try to install this tomorrow. (Today has been a long day for me.) Of course, I was fairly happy with Mozilla 1.2.

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by **orizng** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 1:26 am

Using now,hehe, feeling great!

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by **Hendikins** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 7:13 am

As the only difference involves Bug 182500, posting such information is not required - not to mention that at time of posting I am posting the news to several locations.

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by **Antony** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 7:26 am

The usual approach of announcing a new release is to (1)provide a reference in SillyDog701 Calendar and (2)include the new feature of the release builds, this will greatly help all our users. (i.e. selective quoting)
Since the thread starter is not interested in doing this favour, I will have to post it here.

So here it is (based on Mozilla 1.2.1 Release Notes
Mozilla 1.2.1 was released to correct a DHTML bug in Mozilla 1.2. (The only difference between the two releases is the fix for Bug 182500).

Browser
* Type Ahead Find feature
* Ability to show toolbars as text/icons/both (in the default Classic theme).
* Improvements in tabbed browsing
* Keyboard access is greatly improved including additional accesskeys for menus, other ui elements and page elements.
* new features to utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future.
* Java compatability with Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar) has been repaired.
* XML prettyprinting, similar to IEs default-view for XML is now available in Mozilla.

Mail
* "filter after the fact"
* Palm sync for Mozilla addressbook on MS Windows has been implemented.
* Major improvements to Mac OS X IMAP mail header download performance. Preliminary tests show about 2000% improvement.

(This is an example of what you can add instead of just providing links. And I would like to ask all others to add a few word and add reference to SillyDog701 Calendar in the future.)

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by **Hendikins** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 7:58 am

Ah well, I'll just stop posting release announcements. Solves that problem, doesn't it?

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by **Antony** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 8:23 am

Sorry about the duplicated post. I removed the duplicated post between orizng and Hendikins.

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by **Fulvio** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 11:19 am

Hendikins wrote:Ah well, I'll just stop posting release announcements. Solves that problem, doesn't it?

I sure do not mind the announcement. Antony wants you to do the work, and looking at what was involved, I got sleepy, all in a sudden.
Sorry, Antony, not everyone can do what you do so well.

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by **Hendikins** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 4:24 pm

Given that the delay between release being available and notification posted here has been <15 mins for both 1.2.1 and 1.2, I think it's hardly suprising I may be too busy to go and do that stuff (leaving the *yawn* factor aside)

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by **profman** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 4:46 pm

I know that I certainly enjoy getting notified of a release only minutes after it becomes available. In fact, I had to wait a few minutes before Mozilla 1.2.1 showed up on that ftp link.

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by **Mike of Sheffield** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 5:01 pm

Sorry - I can't see what all the scratching and spitting is about.

Hendikins posted the announcement that Moz 1.2.1 was out - we all knew it was to be a bug fix from 1.2 anyway. He also posted a link to the Release Notes - which gave the info Antony repeated.

Why the tetchiness??

Mike of Sheffield.

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by **Hendikins** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 5:16 pm

Mike of Sheffield wrote:Hendikins posted the announcement that Moz 1.2.1 was out - we all knew it was to be a bug fix from 1.2 anyway. He also posted a link to the Release Notes - which gave the info Antony repeated.

Indeed. I'd see cause for complaint if I didn't link to the release notes, or if the release was a suprise.

To be honest, I think people should read the release notes before installing - not just some stripped down subset of the "what's new list". If everybody read the release notes, Bug 171441 wouldn't have 268 duplicates...

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by **Antony** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 5:55 pm

Let me make it clearly.

In the past (the old forum), when a new version of Netscape or Mozilla released, we ususally have some quick guide about that new feature of the new releases. (Usually shortened version of what's news.) I simply posted it here and wish this style can be carried on here.

My reason for this is simply because a shortened version of what's new can provide best interests for users, giving quick idea about what will be and saving clicking the link (if not interested).

As for the entry in SillyDog701 Calendar that's purly another matter.

I do realise that this is not a serious issue, but I do hope we can all spend a bit more time next time.

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by **Hendikins** » Tue 03 Dec, 2002 6:36 pm

When I'm submitting the same thing to half a dozen places within a very short timeframe, then handling support questions, You really shouldn't be suprised about how short it is (since I can't just copy & drop HTML in to the post, like I can and do where possible) when I'm handling that and support on IRC...

So, the announcements will just be staying short & sweet. After all, if you're going to use what's essentially a development platform...

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by **Hendikins** » Wed 04 Dec, 2002 12:15 am

Seems that there are problems getting the RedHat 8 RPMs of Mozilla 1.2.1 from ftp.mozilla.org. You can get them from Komodo here

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