Chief Lizard Wrangler Vs Iraqi Information Minister
Tuesday, 8. May 2007, 17:56:52
It’s not a full fledged!
What does the Chief Lizard Wrangler herself, Mitchell Baker, have in common with the Iraqi Information Minister? Well, judging by her recent interview with ninemsn then her spinning of the truth comes a close second. Not so far off Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field about full HTML browsers.
Mitchell Baker: Oh well all of them are difficult to shoehorn onto a mobile device, so we should be clear about that. Opera has done a pretty good job of getting something useful on to a mobile device, but it's not a full fledged [sic] and doesn't have the capabilities of Firefox.
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she is talking about Opera Mini. Maybe that doesn't have all the features of Firefox, it is true, but that isn't the point. It is designed to work on almost any phone, and also compress data traffic so it is more economical to run, and faster to boot. We also have some exciting things in store for Opera Mini.
But the point is, that Mitchell conveniently overlooked, is we already have a tabbed browsing, Acid2 passing (it passed before Firefox), widget enabled web browser for mobile called Opera Mobile. This includes the full desktop rendering engine, is stacked with features, and can run in desktop mode like the Nokia and iPhone browsers. Except for extensions (which are probably not as useful as on desktop), I don't see what it lacks that Firefox provides. It is also available today. But we certainly welcome the competition in the mobile space, as we believe in the history and future of our innovation. Innovation that is unsurpassed in the browser space. Mozilla have talented people, so the competition should be fun.
They'll wait until phones have enough capabilities that you can actually run the desktop version of FF on them...
edit: Nevermind. Didn't know he was a she.
By _Grey_, # 8. May 2007, 23:16:30
By WildEnte, # 9. May 2007, 04:47:04
By dstorey, # 9. May 2007, 10:26:26
then, let me explain where were they, first of all there were 2 groups of reporters, the first were embedded with the american army, and the army prevented them to attends the clashes (for their safety) and all they had were the army's statements
the second portion where in Baghdad, in Palestine hotel, exept Abou Dhabi and Aljazeera teams were in Aljazeera office (in Mansour hotel).
in 8/4/2003 both Palestine hotel and Aljazeera office are bombarded by american aircrafts, and some reporters died (included Tarek Ayoub from Aljazeera), and even those news agencies which don't have any casualities, were in disorder, and lost all there tools and videotapes already recorded.
by concidence, american army entered Baghdad next day, imagine all crimes it did far of press eyes to enter Baghdad in one day after beiing surrounded for two weeks.
BTW. the site you linked about El-Sa77af have some interpretation error itself, like "infidels", in fact what he said would be interpreted in english as "Zebras" and that's very far from "infidels", that make focus on other thing : the picture american media is painting about our culture in western heads.
indeed he used to describe them like zebras refering to their barbarism, no more
By Khaled Khalil, # 10. May 2007, 13:36:32
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=5967
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=5966
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=5968
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9045
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=6518
those were the independent (neutral) press, if i have to choose between the official american and the official Iraqi, i think i will never choose whome wanted to hide his crimes by targeting the neutral press.
By Khaled Khalil, # 10. May 2007, 13:50:44