[lug] Linux , Mozilla, Web-dev

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I've been doing web development on Linux for almost three years.  I just
love the flexibility (of course, it's hard to tear myself away from
emacs :-).  With emacs set up the way I like it, I find myself highly
productive.

When it comes to testing, I tend to get rather paranoid.  This means,
among other things, creating a test environment as close as possible to
the production environment.  This, in turn, means running IE on Windows.
It's annoying (especially if, like me, you're working on a dual-boot
machine), but there's really no way around it.

-d

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 at 06:43 -0700, jd soliloquized thusly:
> Hello,
>   I am trying to embed sound in a web page. It seems to work, but
> mozilla freaks out. It will play the loop fine the first time through.
> The when it should loop, it appears as if plugger is starting a new
> mpg123 process, causing the mp3 to be playing two diffident instances
> at the same time, slightly out of sink with each other. This
> makes it extremely hard to develop. Any ideas on how i can fix this.
> FYI - i followed the oreilly book "the definitive guide to html and
> xhtml" when setting up the embed tags. the oreilly way didn't work at
> all.... for mozilla
> 
> the page: http://www.devnull.bz
> 
> as a side note:  being a web-developer using the Linux platform
> is rough.. Only because mozilla and konqueror are weird, I just
> wondered if there are some other web-devs using Linux for a desktop
> and how they feel it affects there overall progress and productivity.
> 
> and I wanted to ask *web-developers* (and no your ~ page at local
> isp does not count) what Linux friendly browser they use when developing
> and if there is any reason to the choice that affects web-dev. what i
> really want to know is, can a nicely configed konqueror be more internet
> exploder like than mozilla, And just be less buggy in general for
> everyday use.
>   
>   IMHO, being a Linux web-dev, the benefits far outway the cost...
> just the GIMP alone will make it impossible to go back... right
> click menus kick ass, and perlotine is awesome. Can anyone
> suggest a robust vector image manipulation progy for Linux..
> like a VIMP lol..
> 

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