K-Meleon Firefox Comparison and History

[whocares]

i didn't even know that.. that's great news for those who wanted a 1.9/2.0 gecko kmeleon. it's probably in the makes now and should be released soon.. like seamonkey there have been 'unofficial' kmeleon releases with the 1.9 gecko.. some prefer to use them as default but ofcourse they are not bug-free. i'm not really associated with kmeleon.. i'm not a dev, just a long time user and tester and i write some extensions.

[chris.p]

Useful stuff, keep it up

Can you explain to me please the difference between Flash and Actionscript? Are they both a .swf extension? How can you tell between them from a browser view?

Coldfusion is even nastier I've found for locking up browsers with a 100% CPU load. Trouble is ASP sites tend to use it instead of Flash.

[MidnightCowboy]

I'm just disappointed that Lunascape isn't really moving forward. They keep upgrading the flipping thing but still only one English language plugin for Twitter!

The Gecko engine component is now version 1.9.1.4 (same as Firefox 3.5.4).
Not sure about their Trident and Webkit engine versions.

[bk_7312]

Originally Posted by whocares

regarding noscript, i didn't write that email but many people are realising what a bad extension it is. the sender's complaints are somewhat different from mine.. as i agree that it is indeed overhyped and everything can be managed with hostperm but having a gui for managing it is certainly needed, that's why i recommend policy manager as an alternative for noscript. my main concerns with noscript is; as we were porting the extension to make it work with kmeleon, we have discovered a lot of weird and unneeded coding (some may even regard as malicious)..it's without doubt that mr. malone has a hidden agenda.

Well, it was just a guess anyway... I'm not using noscript at the moment because I noticed a significant (but not that great) slowdown of firefox.

[bk_7312]

Originally Posted by chris.p

Can you explain to me please the difference between Flash and Actionscript? Are they both a .swf extension? How can you tell between them from a browser view?

There's not much difference between Flash and Actionscript, Flash is basically just an environment where you draw stuff and set motions whereas Actionscript is the programming language that Flash uses.

If my explanation is not clear, picture Flash as a drawing tool where you can draw circles and other shapes and also tell them to move in spirals or resize themselves or change shape periodically, you can even make a short movie using only Flash and picture Actionscript as the programming language that allows you to click on the shapes you draw or input words or calculate stuff like when you play a tennis game, the game needs to calculate the speed and velocity and angle of the ball you shot or return, as in you program using Actionscript so that Flash knows what it's suppose to do. This may still be not clear or precise as I'm not very good at explaining things.

A .swf file can contain either Flash with Actionscript or Flash without Actionscript. I think pure Actionscript without Flash is also possible.

No, you can't tell the difference between them in browser view just like you can't tell html from css or aspx or php in browser view (assuming you're not looking at the address bar). But for Flash and Actionscript, there is no way you can tell what is used without extracting them to their .fla or any other flash format file used for development (A.K.A the source file).

I think this is the best an amateur Flash developer (a hobby) can explain.