Well I just noticed something pretty cool. In the past I saved javascript a nd ran it offline. It was a little amortization calculator that I thought w ould be nice to have. It originally came from a real estate site. It was ni ce to be able to run it offline. Also, there was an IRC portal on a site th at always put up a frame with banners. Being annoying like that, I figured out how to save that and got in the IRC without the crap.
I saved the nomograph page on my harddrive, disconnected from the onternat and it works offline as well. I do not need to be online to run it.
I cannot be scroogled !
So there are advantages to doing it this way. In fact what if their server is down ? The other day the internet was out for a bunch of hours due to fl ooding.
Now if I happened to be designing something and just out of pure coincidenc e forgot the value of pi...
I am a big proponent of backward compatibility. Every time I get a new OS t here is more stuff I cannot do. Windows 7 will not let me into my own %&##$ @ sendto menu ! I use it in XP and Vista to be able to send files to a diff erent program without changing the file association. Like I can send a pict ure to an editor instead of the windows junk viewer without permanently loc king it in. that way I don't have to open the program and browse to the dam n file. Windows can suck mine for all the stuff they took away. I canot sta nd Vista and right now I am STILL on the edge of downgrading this box to XP . Or owuld that be upgrading ?
In my media directory, I had a saved search, limited to the media directory that was *.*. It was saved in 98 as a "FND" file and hitting that confine d the search to that directory, which comes in handy when you have llike th ree or five harddrives.
And XP won't do it. And then we get to Vista and I have a hard tie even sea rching for a file. It is not a straightforward thing anymore.
It just gets worse and worse, and I will NEVER buy a car without a BUILT IN ASHTRAY.
Even tough I don't smoke.
I am sick of this less is more garbage. Less is less.