Bugger all time at the moment – but while installing a Domino 7 beta on my wee Linux server I stumbled across Sun’s ‘Looking Glass’ project – which is aiming for a funky looking 3D desktop…. The project is in its infancy, but check out the screenshots for an idea of where they’re heading.
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Adobe buy Macromedia
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This happened a couple of days ago apparently, read it here at slashdot. There goes another sector of healthy competition.
There’s another insight that’s just gone on slashdot here.
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An ode to IE 4
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My cross browser machine runs 5 different versions of IE and is a great lad.
Although some of us thought that IE 4 was a bloated hunk of resource gobbling junk when it was released, it has stood the test of time remarkably well. I’m glad that it’s rare to see an IE4 entry in one’s site usage statistics, but I still like to test my sites in IE4 if possible. I’m generally happy how they come out too – a bit wonky, but usable and retaining the overall visual gist of the site. And we’re talking sites that are completely tableless and all CSS…. no browser sniffers, no tricks, and all browsers using the same stylesheet.
I never thought I’d say this – wait for it – but well done to the developers of IE 4 for their attempt at an implementation of a standards rendering browser. A shame that the momentum of this initiative was lost. Also, it’s too bad about the predatory business practices of Microsoft, but hey.
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Pop-up blocker in Firefox
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I’ve heard that Firefox’s pop-up blocker could be worked around, and W3 Schools have decided to do it. Bloody annoying…. Time to use an alternative?
Update: Wait – it has stopped happening…?
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Browser testing
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I’m setting up a browser testing machine on an old Pentium 166 (with a respectable 64 meg of RAM). Incredibly, I’ve managed to install Windows 2000 on it, and it seems to run quite well.
In terms of browsers, I initially went straight to evolt.org’s browser archive, but then I discovered an article about running multiple versions of IE on a single machine.
I’m getting a network card for the PC today, and then I’ll ‘give it a go’. If it actually works, it should be much simpler than having a multiple boot machine with different versions of Windows 95/98…..
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Search box
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The search box is back after a short holiday. Why did it go? When I hacked rejigged the way Domino served the pages I found that the search page wouldn’t work any more – I got a “HTTP Web Server: Application Exception – Documents treated as HTML cannot be edited” error. After guessing likely URLs I still couldn’t get it working so back to the less than perfect but usable current search page.
I rebuilt it using Jake’s most excellent article. However, the nasty work around I’ve resorted to to get this working is to leave the search page as it was: unpleasant, un-accessible, quirks-mode HTML. But at least the search is there in the meantime.