November 2003 ← arv-o-matic

FeedDemon and Mozilla

Nov

29

2003

I’ve been using FeedDemon as my aggregator lately. Unfortunately it uses IE as the internal browser so I was forced to open up all pages in an external instance of Mozilla Firebird. This works fairly well but it is a bit annoying. However, today I managed to patch FeedDemon to use Adam Lock’s Mozilla ActiveX ...

The War of the Web, Part 2: Microsoft vs Macromedia

Nov

17

2003

It is now more or less obvious that the browser wars are dead for good. But that does not mean that the battle of the web is over. This time the main battles are all about Rich Internet Applications. A few weeks back Microsoft introduced Avalon and XAML. Now it is time for Macromedia to ...

Cidade de Deus

Nov

9

2003

If you are going to watch only one movie this year don’t make that The Matrix or The Return of the King. Make that Cidade de Deus (City of God). I knew this movie was going to be good. Guilherme Blanco recommended it a long time ago and when it finally arrived to the theatres ...

Eric Lippert

Nov

6

2003

If you like JavaScript, the programming language, as much as I do I think you’ll really like Eric Lippert’s weblog. Eric is a Microsoft developer who works worked with JScript (the language and script interpreter/compiler) so he knows what he is talking about. Eric confirms my theory about memory leaks in Internet Explorer in this ...

XAML Comments

Nov

3

2003

Ian Hickson (from Mozilla, Opera and W3C) has some good points about XAML. Well actually he never mentions XAML, Microsoft nor Windows but we all know what he is talking about.

PNG Tools?

Nov

3

2003

A while back I read about a program that allowed you to change the default background color that IE uses for semitransparent PNG images. For example if I create a PNG image with alpha channels in Photoshop and then try to display that in IE it uses a gray background (the default Mosaic background color). ...

Backend Working Again

Nov

2

2003

I don’t know what happend to our servers (Emil has not been online) but now the commenting should work again. I’ve been playing around with XAML and I got my first custom control working. My goal is to first extend Canvas to support and left and right just the way CSS2 does. Once I get ...

Archive: November 2003