No class Monday, no class Tuesday evening.
Here’s wishing for a happy Wednesday.
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Month: January 2004
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XHTML is coming
Turning this website to be XHTML compliant.
Preview here
It’s not done, but take a look, and let me know what you think. So far it’s a direct port. Though expect some new stylesheets when done.
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Someone Invite me?
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It Bounces
It’s bouncing!
As I type initial confirmation that it (Opportunity) survived touchdown!
Wow, I’m upset I missed the first one. Extremely fun to watch. It’s like a Geeky Superbowl. The only thing I don’t see is a cooler being pored on anyone… and I’m not sure if that’s due to some asthma, or the computers ;-).
It’s a real entertaining kick to watch. I highly recommend it.
“Strong signals” is what I hear.
TONS of fun for all who missed it. The past 5 minutes were the best streaming video I’ve seen outside of Steve Jobs Keynotes… and I’d say it’s a tie when it comes to that.
Update: It’s rolling!
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Flash Killer
I’m blogging to much this week, but I can’t stop.
Daniel Glazman, has showcased how some CSS and JavaScript can be a great alternative to Flash.
I left a little comment:
Perhaps an awesome extension to Composer would be something that would create a GUI to create such effects. Technically, most designers use flash all in similar ways. Why not analyze those a bit, and create a product that does the popular stuff in a non-proprietary way?
Would be neat.
And the reply:
Robert Accettura : absolutely. That’s in my plans.
This is a great thing. Most Flash developers only do one of several things with Flash. It’s the same animations, mouseovers every time. What a great free way to do so, using standard free products in the browser already, and not even leave your web development app.
SVG would be nice too, but until native support is robust and standard in Mozilla, I don’t think that will happen.
Either way, that’s a major development headline.
Don’t get me wrong, Flash is nice. It’s pretty cool actually. But it’s overused, and proprietary. Most of the time it’s completely unnecessary. Flash isn’t needed for a mouseover. That’s a waste. I think with the many new features he’s put into code over the past few months, plus this, he’s got a dynamite app on his hands. One I’m itching to get my hands on. Hopefully he’ll be commiting some code into Mozilla’s CVS sooner than later :-D.
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New G4 upgrade cards
Sonnet Technologies has announced new upgrades for the G3’s!
The new Encore/ZIF G4 800 MHz and 1.0 GHz models are shipping now:
Encore/ZIF G4 800 MHz-1M EG4-800-1M $349.95
Encore/ZIF G4 1.0 GHz-1M EG4-1000-1M-U $499.95NOTE: Encore/ZIF 1.0 GHz models with the part number EG4-1000-1M (without -U) are compatible only with Beige G3 models, and should not be purchased
for use in a Blue & White or G4 PCI Graphics.The Encore/ZIF G4 700 will be available at a new lower price while
supplies last, and is compatible only with Apple Beige G3 models:
Encore/ZIF G4 700MHz-1M EG4-700-1M $299.95
(price drop from $349.95)Sonnet’s Entry-level Encore/ZIF G4s
Sonnet continues to offer its entry-level of award-winning Encore/ZIF
G4 model, which is compatible with all Beige G3s, Blue & White G3
Towers, and PCI Graphics G4 Towers. The MSRPs on this model is:
Encore/ZIF G4 500 EG4-500-1M $199.95
I wish I could get one of those. I got a Beige G3 Fileserver, itching for more CPU, and a B&W desktop that could use one as well. Even a G4/500 would be quite an enhancement to the Beige G3. Quite expensive though.
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More on XML Error Reporting
I mentioned the other day about that little debate going on over XML errors.
The other day, he posted some info on a possible way to display bad code in a “more friendly way” for a lack of better words..
I’m rather pleased with such a solution, and hope to see it in Mozilla and Safari soon. I think it’s a great solution.
My personal suggestion would be to perhaps append some CSS to the page, and have it hang over the badly rendered page. It would be more user friendly, and less obtrusive, while getting the point across.
An example can be found here.
I’m curious to know what someone thinks. I just roughed it in real quick. I’m sure it could be much more pretty if some time was spent.
Would be nice to see this in Mozilla as well as Safari.
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To much recursion
After dealing with a teacher who has a sickening love for recursive:
😀
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Amazing Car
Do you like cool cases for computers? How about a Car as a case?
Very sweet. Would love if they open sourced that software they developed. Perhaps MPL?
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Some technical issues
In my ongoing efforts:
Few more templating tweaks. Before the bulk can be done, a few technical issues need to be worked out. Hope to have those resolved in the next 24-48 hours.
After that, I’ve got several smaller scripts to write/debug/test.
Some Authentication system upgrades. Then some new toys 😀
And, I’ll have a little Open source toy for everyone in perhaps a week or so 🙂 If you run a website, and have digital media, you may be interested… more later.