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bmedina · Jun 24, 2004, 12:12 AM

Camino 0.8 is now final!
Official link: http://mozilla.org/products/camino/
Developer note: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinke...es/005818.html

Now they can move on to officially incorporating the new style tabs and getting real autofill working.

Cadaver · Jun 24, 2004, 12:32 AM

...and spell checking.

juanvaldes · Jun 24, 2004, 03:09 AM

congrats guys.

nooon · Jun 24, 2004, 06:12 AM

Camino rules!

DamnDJ · Jun 24, 2004, 06:19 AM

Spell checking is the only thing that keeps me away from really using any other browser other than Safari. Every time a new browser version is released, I check it out and if it doesn't have spell checking, it goes right to the trash.

Millennium · Jun 24, 2004, 07:16 AM

Spell-checking is overrated in the extreme, and I wish people would stop using it as a crutch. There's a thing called proofreading.

That said, there's a big feature Camino's missing for me, too: Midas support. I'm not sure I understand why this is so, given that Midas is part of the Gecko engine; I'd think it would come along with the rest of the Gecko features "for free". Is it just a case of the relevant UI not being hooked up yet? Or is therre some other difficulty?

Ludovic Hirlimann · Jun 24, 2004, 07:39 AM

Originally posted by Millennium:
Is it just a case of the relevant UI not being hooked up yet? Or is therre some other difficulty?

None - Just lack of interest I think. I think there is a bug open on the subject, but ain't usre if there is a bug for Midas please post the bug number here and I'll see If I can get interested in bringing Midas support into camino.

Ludovic Hirlimann · Jun 24, 2004, 07:40 AM

Originally posted by DamnDJ:
Spell checking is the only thing that keeps me away from really using any other browser other than Safari.

Don't take that as a promise, but Spell checking might make it in 0.9.

gorickey · Jun 24, 2004, 07:59 AM

Camino is solid!

Millennium · Jun 24, 2004, 08:52 AM

Originally posted by Ludovic Hirlimann:
None - Just lack of interest I think. I think there is a bug open on the subject, but ain't usre if there is a bug for Midas please post the bug number here and I'll see If I can get interested in bringing Midas support into camino.

Found it; Bug 197253

His Dudeness · Jun 24, 2004, 09:04 AM

Originally posted by Millennium:
Spell-checking is overrated in the extreme, and I wish people would stop using it as a crutch. There's a thing called proofreading.

That said, there's a big feature Camino's missing for me, too: Midas support. I'm not sure I understand why this is so, given that Midas is part of the Gecko engine; I'd think it would come along with the rest of the Gecko features "for free". Is it just a case of the relevant UI not being hooked up yet? Or is therre some other difficulty?

Proof... read... proofreading? What is that?

cybergoober · Jun 24, 2004, 09:09 AM

Originally posted by Millennium:
There's a thing called proofreading.

While I tend to agree with you there, I don't think proofreading does much for a dyslexic...

wataru · Jun 24, 2004, 10:19 AM

Originally posted by Millennium:
Spell-checking is overrated in the extreme, and I wish people would stop using it as a crutch. There's a thing called proofreading.

I use Firefox as my main browser, and yet I still have far fewer typos per post than most people here. If you ask me, the problem is just laziness.

Ludovic Hirlimann · Jun 24, 2004, 11:27 AM

Originally posted by bmedina:
Camino 0.8 is now final!
Official link: http://mozilla.org/products/camino/
Developer note: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinke...es/005818.html

Now they can move on to officially incorporating the new style tabs and getting real autofill working.

Localized version is avalibale too :
Chinese (Traditional)
Chinese (Simplified)
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Slovak
Spanish

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...ltiLang.dmg.gz

Adam Betts · Jun 24, 2004, 01:03 PM

Originally posted by wataru:
I use Firefox as my main browser, and yet I still have far fewer typos per post than most people here. If you ask me, the problem is just laziness.

Kinda ignorant to think that it's just laziness

wataru · Jun 24, 2004, 01:06 PM

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
Kinda ignorant to think that it's just laziness

I figured you'd come in here and flame me for that. Fine, I'll restate:

In most cases it appears to be laziness.

Yes, there are exceptions, such as non-native English speakers, and the deaf, but it seems like there are many more who are native, who aren't deaf, and yet who rely on spell checkers instead of applying their elementary school knowledge and just proofreading their damn posts.

bmedina · Jun 24, 2004, 02:28 PM

Originally posted by Ludovic Hirlimann:
Don't take that as a promise, but Spell checking might make it in 0.9.

Is the plan to use OS X's native text box or to use Mozilla's spell checking with the current text box implementation?

Ludovic Hirlimann · Jun 24, 2004, 02:32 PM

Originally posted by bmedina:
Is the plan to use OS X's native text box or to use Mozilla's spell checking with the current text box implementation?

Mozilla's TextBox + NSSpellChecker I supose. I did not tought about it yet.

P · Jun 24, 2004, 02:33 PM

Anyone know how I can get it to open new tabs behind the current when cmd-clicking?

Ludovic Hirlimann · Jun 24, 2004, 02:44 PM

Originally posted by P:
Anyone know how I can get it to open new tabs behind the current when cmd-clicking?

File a bug @ bugzilla.mozilla.org

AKcrab · Jun 24, 2004, 05:29 PM

Originally posted by Millennium:
Spell-checking is overrated in the extreme, and I wish people would stop using it as a crutch. There's a thing called proofreading.

That said, there's a big feature Camino's missing for me, too: Midas support. I'm not sure I understand why this is so, given that Midas is part of the Gecko engine; I'd think it would come along with the rest of the Gecko features "for free". Is it just a case of the relevant UI not being hooked up yet? Or is therre some other difficulty?

You call spell-check 'overrated in the extreme', yet list 'Midas support' as a 'big missing feature'?

I've never even heard of Midas.

bmedina · Jun 24, 2004, 05:29 PM

Originally posted by P:
Anyone know how I can get it to open new tabs behind the current when cmd-clicking?

It's in Preferences->Navigation->Tabbed Browsing->Load opened windows or tabs in the background.

Adam Betts · Jun 24, 2004, 11:37 PM

Originally posted by wataru:
I figured you'd come in here and flame me for that. Fine, I'll restate:

In most cases it appears to be laziness.

Yes, there are exceptions, such as non-native English speakers, and the deaf, but it seems like there are many more who are native, who aren't deaf, and yet who rely on spell checkers instead of applying their elementary school knowledge and just proofreading their damn posts.

I'm not flaming you, I'm just questioning your bold statement.

But I agree with you that in most cases, it's laziness. Superchicken being the best example

Horsepoo!!! · Jun 24, 2004, 11:46 PM

Originally posted by Millennium:
Spell-checking is overrated in the extreme, and I wish people would stop using it as a crutch. There's a thing called proofreading.

That said, there's a big feature Camino's missing for me, too: Midas support. I'm not sure I understand why this is so, given that Midas is part of the Gecko engine; I'd think it would come along with the rest of the Gecko features "for free". Is it just a case of the relevant UI not being hooked up yet? Or is therre some other difficulty?

Maybe a grammar-checker or punctuation-checker would be more useful in your case?

Oh, and it's 'there', not 'therre.'

ManOfSteal · Sep 3, 2004, 09:40 PM

The "new style" tabs have been implemented as of the 9/3/04 nightly build for those who are interested....