2004 ← arv-o-matic

Merry X-Mas

Dec

24

2004

I’m currently at my parents place celebrating X-Mas. Tomorrow we’ll have a big dinner with my nephew and niece.

If you’re like me and could not have survived the onslaughter of spam, viruses and real email without Mozilla Thunderbird you might want to consider giving a donation to Scott McGregor and David Bienvenu.

My X-Mas Wish List

Dec

15

2004

Skype plugin for Trillian

Interview with Emil

Nov

30

2004

Me and Emil had the honor of being interviewed by Scott Barnes at MossyBlog.com. I really enjoyed reading Emil’s answers even though we have discussed these questions before so the answers were not really any suprises. ps. I cannot believe I forgot to mention SVG. Another interesting subject would also be to write something about ...

Simple HTML Parser

Nov

20

2004

I’ve been searching high and low for a simple HTML parser. I need a simple HTML parser, written in JS, that has a SAX like interface so that I can filter out potentially unsafe content. I’ve looked at existing Perl, Java, C (and more) parsers but they are either too much or rely to much ...

ODB is Dead

Nov

14

2004

Rap artist, Old Dirty Bastard of Wu-Tang Clan died in the studio at the age of 35, after he felt some chest pains.

Google snags another one

Nov

9

2004

Aaron Boodman of Youngpup.net, one of the best DHTML programmers in our time, started working for MSFT a while back but now he is leaving for Google. Good luck!

Firefox 1.0

Nov

9

2004

This is the best browser since… well ever. Get it now! Alternate address.

NYC Rules

Oct

25

2004

I just got back from a one week trip to the States. I managed to get a weekend in New York City and I met Drew from the WebOS days. Good times were had.

Fighting Ignorance

Sep

30

2004

Today I went to see a lecture by James Randi. James Randi offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. The lecture was very informative and funny. There are so many people out there who believe in weird things. He ...

Russia okays Kyoto

Sep

30

2004

Hopefully this means that the worlds greatest polutor, the United States of America, will sign it soon.

Change from MT?

Jun

4

2004

I’m considering switching from Movable Type to WordPress. The main reason is that I fucking hate how MT has to rebuild everything all the fucking time. Why not build it upon first request and then cache it? Wanted features: Needs to run on BSD, Apache 2, MySQL or PostGreSQL (Perl, PHP, Mono, Whatever++) Should be ...

No XHTML, No SVG in Longhorn

Jun

3

2004

At the recent W3C workshop covering Web Applications and Compound Documents, Microsoft said that there will be no support for XHTML and SVG in Longhorn. Ian Hixie, who works for Opera, is a member of the CSS and XBL work group at W3C and who also is a major contributor to Mozilla (used to work ...

Noscript Expand Element

May

28

2004

Scott MacGregor wanted some help with improving the way the vCard attachments are drawn in Thunderbird. Since Thunderbird uses the world leading rendering engine he felt that the old way to show the vCard was just too boring. Then TaSK came up with a good looking Photoshop mock-up. However, these have a serious issue and ...

I’ll be gone for a while

May

14

2004

I’ll be away next week. Business…

Longhorn Prototypes

May

12

2004

Paul Thurott has some posted some new concept images of Longhorn.

Happy Birthday Jared

May

11

2004

Happy b-day buddy and I hope the coming months will not be “Damn! That’s some rough shit!”

Updated PNG Behavior

May

9

2004

I’ve udpated the PNG Behavior to work better when printing. I knew that the PNG images were not being printed but I thought it was just a matter of adding a print style sheet but IE is not detaching the behavior when printing so I had to revert to the IE proprietary events, window.onbeforeprint and ...

Sortable Table and Tasman?

May

8

2004

I got an email claiming that Sortable Table does not work in IE Mac. This is part of my reply and since I feel that I cannot get Sortable Table to work in Tasman without help I’m posting this here. We do want Sortable Table to work in Mac IE 5 and Mac MSN but ...

Bloggin

May

6

2004

A few days back I promised myself that I would blog daily. When I sat down tonight I had a hard time to come up with something so I thought about what Guilherme told me the other day, “Just blog about what you did today”. I currently have all my windows open, candles lit and ...

CSS is Old

May

6

2004

I read at Foo’s blog about some guy who finally understood what CSS is all about. It just made me realize that I was separating style and content back in 96. Sure, IE3 wasn’t doing marvelous things with CSS but at least seperating style from content was available already back then… that makes it 8 ...

Thank God for the Green House Effect

May

6

2004

I’m digging the green house effect. Today we got 20+ degrees and me and some of my friends went skateboarding. I remember when I was a kid and it was all cold and lots of snow all the time. Now adays we don’t get much of a winter any more. Come on America, please reelect ...

IIS Log Chart in Mozilla

May

5

2004

I’ve updated the Bindows IIS Log Chart to work in Mozilla. The fix included using BiGraph2 for Mozilla and disabling the line chart buttons/menu items. Here is a tip for those of you who are using Firefox: To get the API page for a class in Bindows type the following in the address bar “Bindows ...

Mozilla Update

May

4

2004

It seems Firefox will get its own Windows Mozilla Update. Ben Goodger has put some design documents on his personal web server and I must say that it looks very promising. I just hope that they got som good designers on this. Although I think mozilla.org looks good I think that the update sites should ...

Thunderbird 0.6

May

3

2004

Today Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 was released. I don’t think I would have been able to use email at all if it wasn’t for TB. This version has some very nice improvements but I still think that Scott MacGregor should take a step back do some real polishing. I don’t get the same nice feeling that ...

Bindows 1.10 is Out

May

2

2004

Yup, on a Sunday. I don’t know why we said that we were going to release this on a Sunday but you got to keep what you promise. The most interesting part of Bindows 1.10 is the new tree view control. I was personally pretty stoked when I got a DOM document to work as ...

Visiting South Park

May

1

2004

This is me if I would be a character in South Park.

Fixing MSDN

Apr

30

2004

Add the following to userContent.css to allow reading the articles at MSDN. pre { white-space: pre !important; }

Bindows Developer

Apr

27

2004

We are currently in need of another developer working with Bindows. The job would include working with the core design of the GUI toolkit as well as writing rich client applications. Requirements include XML, JS, OOP and deep understanding of modern GUI toolkits like Swing or WinForms. Knowledge and interest of XML based user interfaces ...

MSXML GetHashCode

Apr

1

2004

Does anyone know how to get a unique identifier for an IXMLNode for MSXML? I’ve tried googling around for this without finding a solution. In Mozilla I can just use expando properties but expandos do not work when using ActiveX objects. I think I’ll probably have to use an array and then use the index ...

WebFX Ends IE Support

Apr

1

2004

We’ve decided to stop supporting Internet Explorer at WebFX. A long time ago we told Netscape 4.x users to upgrade and now it is time for all the Internet Explorer users to start experiencing the web the way it was meant to.

MSXML + HTA = BUG

Mar

31

2004

Something is very wrong with MSXML… An HTA is an HTML Application. It is an executable application format that hosts Internet Explorer in a fully trusted application. This application, like any other executable has full access to your OS and hardware. You can create and delete files, read the registry and more. When using a ...

RCC moves out of SVG 1.2

Mar

24

2004

In the exisiting working draft for SVG 1.2 the W3C adds something called RCC. RCC is a way to define custom elements in SVG. It is very similar to XBL and tries to solve the same issues as both XBL and Microsoft’s behaviors has tried to solve before this. I’ve previously commented about the duplicate ...

20k Spam

Mar

24

2004

Damn, what is up with people opening email attachments. This is just getting ridicilus :’( I think this is a new personal record. 20 000 junk messages in less than 24 hours.

Vacation

Mar

7

2004

I’m going away snowboarding. I’ll be back in a week.

DHTML Windows

Mar

6

2004

Yesterday I got an email from a lawyer involved in a patent lawsuit regarding DHTML windows. That is internal windows, inside your web browser created using DHTML. I’m almost sure we had DHTML windows in 1997 or 1998. The lawyer is looking for prior art (before Januarey 1st, 1999). I’ve yet to find any proof ...

IE7

Mar

6

2004

Dean Edwards is on a killing spree. A few weeks back I posted about his MS behavior emulation for Mozilla. Now his goal is to improve IE6 to support more standards, mostly CSS2, using scripting. The main idea behind the script is to go through the CSS rules and modify them to rules that IE ...

Bindows 1.01

Mar

6

2004

A week ago we released Bindows 1.01. I haven’t posted anything about this earlier because I’ve been too busy. If you haven’t checked out Bindows since our first beta I think you’ll see a lot of interesting new things. The most interestion feature (IMHO) added during the beta phase was to allow the UI to ...

New Server, Second Try

Mar

1

2004

We will try to get the new server working better this time. I’ve just updated MT and did the future proofing of the MT URIs again. Hopefully, this time the hardware will work for a while.

Mozilla Speedpig

Feb

13

2004

It is time for yet another Mozilla Phoenix name change.

SPAM Overload

Jan

31

2004

These last 24 hours I’ve been getting around 500 spam mails per hour. The amount of spam we get actually forced us to turn off Spam Assassin and the virus checker running on our mail server because these were making the server come to a crawl and making anything email related too painful to accept. ...

Internet Explorer is removing support for URIs

Jan

28

2004

Forget everything I say below. I’m an idiot. Read the comments to see why. As I mentioned in an earlier post IE is having some very serious problems with URIs that contains user names and passwords. Support for user name and passwords is a required part of the URI specification. Now, instead of fixing the ...

Sortable Table Update

Jan

27

2004

It’s been almost a whole year since we last posted any real updates to WebFX. I finally got together and polished Sortable Table 1.1. I hope this update makes a few people satisfied because it makes it very easy to add custom sort types. function parseUsDate( s ) { var parts = s.split( "/" ); ...

Mozilla Behavior Emulation

Jan

20

2004

Dean Edwards has created an XBL binding that allows Mozilla to use IE behaviors. This is something I’ve thought about doing but I put that on hold because Mozilla does not allow custom style properties. Dean, however came up with a pretty good solution. He uses the id of the binding as the URI to ...

Still no new server

Jan

20

2004

Last year we bought a new server for eae.net and moved all the content over. Just a day or so after that some parts of the server hardware broke and we had to order new parts. I was expecting this to be a quick fix but for some reason we are still using the old ...

Mozilla is #1

Jan

20

2004

Do a search for “1″ at Google and see that it is not only me that think that Mozilla is the most logical result for this search. http://www.google.com/search?q=1

New IE Update

Jan

18

2004

There is a new Internet Explorer update available.

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