Chimera Gets a New Name 120
ProfKyne writes "Looks like Chimera (the other white meat) is getting a name change. The article asks that you please don't chime in with your suggestions."
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
camino? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:camino? (Score:1)
Are you sure? "CAMM-in-oh" vs. "cah-MEEN-oh"...
At least with Chimera, you could point somebody to a dictionary to set them straight.
Re:camino? (Score:1)
Re: Are geeks ethnocentric? (Score:1)
Re: Are geeks ethnocentric? (Score:2)
hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
I was going to say... (Score:1)
Camino... (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Camino... (Score:1)
Re:Camino... (Score:2)
Re:Camino... (Score:1)
Re:Camino... (Score:2)
that's not what i meant.
it's not a car, it's a browser.
the browser is called camino, no el.
cheers.
Re:Camino... (Score:1)
and Phoenix? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:and Phoenix? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:zilla (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:zilla (Score:2)
Or even Mackamino
Daniel
Re:zilla (Score:1, Funny)
Re:zilla (Score:1)
heh, my 'zilla has no email, no IM, no composer. it's called custom install (+ it's also lighter than a full install, ~ 6.8 mb dl (think dialup), and none of the junk I don't use.
urm, totally OT.
Re:zilla (Score:1)
As in Nicolo Machiavelli [utm.edu]?
And yes, I first learned that name when my opponents in Sid Meir's Civilization called me Machiavellian.
Issues (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Issues (Score:5, Informative)
Frankly, I'll be happy to be rid of the: "No, the word is actually pronounced 'kai-MEH-ra', not 'SHIM-er-a' " annoyances
Re:Issues (Score:4, Funny)
Whoo Hoo!
-73 It's about prime
Re:Issues (Score:3, Funny)
Well, it's spelled "Chimera", but it's pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove".
Re:Issues (Score:1)
Re:Issues (Score:1)
Re:Issues (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Issues (Score:4, Insightful)
Political freedom, that matters. Economic freedom, that matters. Freedom to name your browser Chimera? Doesn't matter that much.
Trademark (Score:1)
Re:Trademark (Score:2)
Someone probably has, and it doesn't stop me from calling myself my name. Apple Computers and Apple Records, right?
Re:Issues (Score:2)
It also might be this project [ucsf.edu].
Mmmm. Extensible, interactive molecular graphics programs.
What about... (Score:3, Funny)
That sounds like a good name to me... Apart from the images of bugs and crashes it conjures, but I'm sure they can turn that around in no time.
Re:What about... (Score:2)
names (Score:5, Funny)
or in the spirit of naming browsers after SUVs:
Envoy
Yukon
Expedition
Denali
Sienna
Rover
Ranger
Cruiser
Villager
Windst
Re:names (Score:2)
Rash
Gates
Windows (might be a trademark on that, though)
Uriah Rennie
Bush
Chinese Water Torture
JOZYXQE [quotegeek.com] (there's almost definately not a trademark on that one)
Ultimate SUV (Score:2, Funny)
</ob simpsons>
Re:Ultimate SUV (Score:2)
"Well it goes real slow
with the hammer down/
it's the country fried browser
endorsed by a clown!
Canyonero!"
Naw, sounds too much like Internet Explorer.
Re:names (Score:1)
Hmm...after the John Scofield [theiceberg.com] album of the same name? [guitar9.com]
Great record.
New Name... (Score:5, Funny)
Call it "sosumi...again" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Call it "sosumi...again" (Score:2)
Yeah, but this time, it'll probably be Apple doing the suing.
CyberCamel! (Score:2, Funny)
Since it appears t o be a trademark problem... (Score:2)
iBrowse (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:iBrowse (Score:1)
Re:iBrowse (Score:1)
Safari is 2nd class (Score:3, Interesting)
a tie? (Score:3, Interesting)
To get the version release hung up on a name is pretty lousy. Why the heck did they go with Chimera in the first place, when a 10-second search would have turned up the other? And why the delay to switch? Not that I care
A new name
Re:a tie? (Score:1)
I like this one. Kinda like a cute deer with a machine gun.
I can see the sequels already: Bambo goes on Safari
Comes with a special button that censors the gory scenes for the kids!
Re:a tie? (Score:1)
Re:a tie? (Score:2, Interesting)
But there seems to be a real duplication of effort, when the same folks could be writing open source improvements to Safari (I assume this is feasible? otherwise what's the point of open source). I don't like all the eggs in one basket, and am torn between my pleasure that Apple has reentered the market and my concern that it might undermine it. Safari parallels Chimera so closely -- the sincerest form of flattery.
I'm not writing as a developer and don't know anything about the accessibility of Safari development to third parties. I know a % is proprietary -- why don't they open the whole thing? I'm hoping they won't get cute and decide to charge for Safari down the line -- the sort of thing continued development of Chimera (oops, Camino) would protect against. But the, and last, Chimera/Camino is pretty much complete for my purposes, kind of like NS 4.78 was a peak product that is still used places like my public library. If a product meets its purpose....
Bye-bye Opera, my old favorite. And iCab, whatever happened to it.
Meh. (Score:2)
camino (Score:5, Informative)
Re:camino (Score:1)
How lame (Score:1)
Re:How lame (Score:2)
Yah, that's a great idea--make it harder to pronounce than it already is.
Re:How lame (Score:1)
I'd suggest the proper "Chimra" instead, but I can't since Slashdot doesn't allow entity references in comments. (pudge/krow: Hint, hint.)
I like that name (Score:3, Interesting)
Camino -- "road" -- is not bad metaphorically, either. I think of a pleasant drive on the coast, as apposed to calling it, oh
Chimera was a *better*, but Camino is a good enough replacement, and the fact that it's a nice browser is more important
timothy
Oooh! I have some suggestions! (Score:2, Funny)
"Safari Junior, With Tabs"?
"We've Got Tabs!"?
Re:Oooh! I have some suggestions! (Score:4, Funny)
Ooh...here's one:
Tabula Aqua
OK, so maybe only 5000 people in the world would fully appreciate the pun. I think that's worth it. :-)
Re:Oooh! I have some suggestions! (Score:1)
Of course, here we'll suggest 'em anyway (Score:1)
It should probably have Cocoa or Gecko in the name (Score:1)
I'm sure someone else can come up with better names than I, but Camino doesn't exactly conjure up images of web browsers.
-- shayborg
Re:It should probably have Cocoa or Gecko in the n (Score:1)
Floyd, it has to be Floyd ... (Score:1)
I liked "Chimera" even though I couldn't remember it, and Camino isn't all that bad, really, but how 'bout a bit more humor in the name, Pink?
Name it "Floyd."
What?
Oh, OK.
I'll go away.
Bye!
Tomas
The name Chimera has a bad stigma with me... (Score:4, Funny)
I will certainly dread going to a Camino newsgroup in case it's.. uhh... guys with exhaust pipes or something.
(*shudders*)
Re:The name Chimera has a bad stigma with me... (Score:1)
Hay un hombre de espana que esta de vacaciones en la republica dominicana, y necesita tomar un autobus.
Le pregunte al nativo, >, y el nativo responde >
Apologies for the horrendous grammar and spelling of the above, but I'm on a PC and can't create the nice accented characters as easily, and I'm way too lazy to look them up.
p
How about a supercreative name... (Score:2, Funny)
iDontCareWhatItsCalled... (Score:1)
Today for the first time I have seen one of the common complaints, it just dies after a while. I want to see this go away, Mozilla in OS X is just a little too slow for my liking.
Re:iDontCareWhatItsCalled... (Score:1)
TAFKAC (Score:3, Funny)
It worked for Prince.
Re:TAFKAC (Score:3, Funny)
Re:TAFKAC (Score:2)
Re:TAFKAC (Score:2)
"Intaanetto Ekusupuroa" to be precise. And fortunately for those of us who are still learning to read Japanese, it's written in Katakana [everything2.com] and not Kanji [everything2.com].
Re:TAFKAC (Score:1)
Re:TAFKAC (Score:2)
Re:TAFKAC (Score:2)
Oh, this will "make it through legal" (Score:2)
all he has to do is give me a new name... (Score:1)
oh, wait. thats from 'The NeverEnding Story', nevermind...
2 much time (Score:1)
Name suggestion! (Score:4, Interesting)
A Rose By Any Other Name (Score:1)
Camino has three popular connotations: the Chevrolet car/truck hybrid, the planet from Star Wars Epsiode 2, and the Spanish word for path. They first two may not be the most relevent, but at least it's distinctive. And if it's also determined to pass legal, that's all that's required in a name.
Even if the name isn't relevent, the features are. There are only a few code bases of HTML engines being distributed. Mozilla, Explorer, and the now extinct Netscape codebase are the only ones in wide distribution. The KHTML engine Apple is integrating into Webcore and Safari may be elegant but it's not widely used. I can see why Apple wanted the elegance for it's rendering framework, but letting either the Mozilla or Explorer engine stagnate on the Mac platform is a very bad thing.
Tabbed browsing is okay and all, but if there is one differentiating feature I'd like to see in Chimera it would be a preference option to choose which HTML engine to use to render pages (Webcore or Mozilla). Since neither engine is near a 1.0 bug free release on the mac platform yet, this is a pie in the sky desire.
Frankly, the best feature of Chimera/Camino is the fact that it is being developed for the Mac. Period.
Re:A Rose By Any Other Name (Score:2, Interesting)
we may see some more instability, but the speed should be much better, along with improved rendering.
Makes No Sense... (Score:2, Interesting)
Since when is "Chimera" worse from a "legal" standpoint than "Camino?" This has been going on for months, yet this is the first we've heard of it? Something smells bad... real bad.
Re:Makes No Sense... (Score:2)
"Chimera" was already in use for another web browser. "Camino" was not. Any questions?
Prince? (Score:1)
How about ChiZilla? (Score:1)
Camino eh? (Score:3, Informative)
maybe they should pick another one....
Bad "That 70's Show Reference"? (Score:2)
Maybe they just like Ashton Kutchner?
X-mera? (Score:1, Funny)
Chimino? Chifari? Samino? Sifera? (Score:2)
Hey, I've got one! Oh...wait...NO, PUT THE KNIFE DOWN! I DIDN'T MEAN IT, PINKERTON![gurgle][splat]
Konfusion (Score:1)
By "people" I mean George Lucas's lawyers.
Re:Basalisk (Score:1)
Re:Chimera is vastly overratted (Score:1)
-- shayborg
Re:Chimera is chocolately flavoured too (Score:2)
Also, just because an app is carbon, it doesn't make it any worse than a cocoa one. Photoshop 7 is carbon, for example, and I know I've seen positively hundreds of posts here on
Bad programming makes a poor app, not the APIs/language/type of candy the programmer eats.
Re:It will be called Rhodan (Score:1)