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Sun’s Looking Glass
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
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
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…
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Pop-up blocker in Firefox
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
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…
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Broadband again
Our broadband was switched on this morning, and for 256 it is nice and fast.
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Search box
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…