October 2003 ← arv-o-matic

XAML: First Impressions

Oct

28

2003

Finally, the facts are out for XAML. I’ve been waiting for this release for a few years now. Prior to this it has all been roumors and speculation. First impressions: Very Mixed The first things that struck me was how MS reinvented everything. A lot of your exisitng experience for writing applications are totally wasted, ...

Safari Raises the Bar

Oct

25

2003

This makes me wish Safari was available for Windows. Safari 1.1 has some really awesome features (I’m voting for these in Bugzilla for Mozilla). How about these goodies: Support for CSS3 RGBA colors. I’m not sure this is a complete support. Dave Hyatt just lists the most important properties. (Bugzilla Entry) Support for CSS2 text-shadow. ...

XAML is Emerging

Oct

24

2003

Ryan Dawson writes at his Longhorn Blog about XAML. If you don’t know what XAML is you should read Ryan Dawson’s entry first. XAML is Microsofts version of XUL. I like XUL but without the installation base it is not a viable alternative to using DHTML for creating zero footprint rich client web application. For ...

Windows Village

Oct

18

2003

While looking for information about upcoming Longhorn features I stumpled upon these interesting job details at Microsoft Careers. The job description says that Longhorn will build a next generation NNTP Newsgroup functionality into the Longhorn Windows Shell. As an example it says that if the user is in My Photos and clicks “Windows Village”, they ...

Bindows 0.94

Oct

17

2003

Another week, another Bindows release. This realese has some important bug fixes and we are getting closer and closer to a 1.0 release.

Mozilla Release Galore

Oct

15

2003

Today the Mozilla Foundation released 3 new milestones. Most anticipated is the Mozilla Firebird 0.7 release but I snatched the Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 release as well. I did not install Mozilla 1.5 since I have no use for it any more.

PDC Broadcasts?

Oct

8

2003

Does anyone know if there will be any broadcasts or slideshows available to people who cannot go to the PDC in LA? Would it not be great if all the sessions were recorded and then downloadable to MSDN Subscribers?

Windows Sandboxing

Oct

7

2003

Dylan Greene has a good post about how sandboxing Windows could make computing a lot more secure. Since Longhorn will be using Avalon, which is a .Net API, I don’t see why this would not be possible. .Net already has most of these security features built in and Longhorn will most likely use .Net 2.0, ...

No Idea’s Original

Oct

3

2003

No idea’s original There’s nothing new under the sun It’s never what you do but how it’s done What you base your happines around? Material, women and large paper? That means you inferior, not major

Archive: October 2003