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Re: Forth at GitHub

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On 11/23/2015 12:41 PM, Gerry Jackson wrote:
> On 20/11/2015 18:02, rickman wrote:
>> On 11/20/2015 12:24 PM, Gerry Jackson wrote:
>>> On 20/11/2015 01:15, Unknown wrote:
>>>> There seems to have been no activity recently and it's moved
>>>> from sourceforge to github. Which is another load of hollywood
>>>> style crap!!   Typically:--
>>>>
>>>> ] Please note that GitHub no longer supports old versions of Firefox.
>>>> ] We recommend upgrading to the latest Safari, Google Chrome, or
>>>> Firefox.
>>>>
>>>> Screw these hollywood clowns !!
>>>
>>> Why this anger? It's easy enough to update an old version of Firefox or
>>> whatever browser you use. People who stick with old versions are the
>>> bane of a web developer's life and deserve such a message, if not worse.
>>
>> Continually updating browsers is the single biggest consumer of memory
>> on my PCs.  I have old desktops that are essentially no longer usable
>> because I can no longer have more than a handful of tabs open.  When I
>> keep a machine update free the browser continues to operate just fine
>> without needing multiple GB of RAM.
>>
>
> So you're using obsolete (probably) hardware

I'm not sure what value there is in labeling older hardware "obsolete". 
  If you wish to define it as such then this conversation is at an end 
by definition.  But the fact remains I have computers that are faster 
than the processor in a cell phone or tablet and yet get straddled with 
browsers that can't work effectively in 1 GB of memory on the machine.

Are all the processors in phones and tablet obsolete as well?


> with an outdated and
> therefore unsupported (probably) OS

Again, who cares if how many years has passed since the OS was made?


> running an outdated and therefore
> unsupported (probably) browser that doesn't handle standard HTML and may
> not even know what CSS is and you expect web-sites to cater for you?

None of the browsers handle "standard" HTML.  They correctly interpret a 
subset.  Everyone who writes HTML knows they have to test on all of the 
browsers they support since testing against the HTML standard does not 
assure your page will be properly presented.

Again, at the time the machine was new it worked and worked well.  If I 
don't update the browser it continues to work well.  When I update to 
the current version of the browsers memory disappears in a puff of smoke 
on opening more than a handful of tabs.  I think the cause is obvious.

-- 

Rick

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Re: Forth at GitHub Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-11-03 08:30 +0100
  Re: Forth at GitHub Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 01:15 +0000
    Re: Forth at GitHub Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-20 17:24 +0000
      Re: Forth at GitHub Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-20 17:48 +0000
        Re: Forth at GitHub rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 13:03 -0500
        Re: Forth at GitHub Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-20 18:16 +0000
      Re: Forth at GitHub rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-11-20 13:02 -0500
        Re: Forth at GitHub Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-23 17:41 +0000
          Re: Forth at GitHub rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 13:00 -0500
            Re: Forth at GitHub Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-11-23 20:29 +0000
            Re: Forth at GitHub Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 00:48 -0800

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