good news for web standards.
January 31, 2007
Mollly E. Holzschlag will now be contributing to the development of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Molly is a web standards champion and IE has long been criticised for being hopelessly standards non-compliant, and rightly so. Will this signal the dawn of an IE version to truly rival Firefox and Opera? Time will tell. Read the full article here
TextMate for Windows?
January 25, 2007
I have just managed to devote a little time to getting ‘e-texteditor‘, a TextMate-like editor for windows. I’ve hesitated to use this in the past because it seemed just too complicated to get to grips with. But today I went mad and did everything I had to – and am I glad I did!!! I installed the latest beta of ‘e-texteditor’ then after some research discovered that I did indeed need to install Cygwin – a unix environment for windows. Then I discovered that the short cuts that I love so much in TextMate didn’t work, so after lots of fruitless internet research I decided to take the clue from the error log and actually install Ruby. Now some features worked – Yippeeee! But wait – some features still didn’t (Booo!) Confident now that I can work out the problem by hitting it with a software hammer (in this case installing Active Perl) I found that I had a fully working TextMate-like editor on my windows machine and now I simply love it!! Intype will have to go some to beat this. you’ll find ‘e-texteditor’ at this link… http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2006/textmate_on_windows
microsoft repackages iPod
click… goto video Its been around for a little while but its an absoulte gem and worth another mention.
Intype Update, alpha finally released
Intype alpha After much anticipation an alpha release is finally available for download. Its pretty basic, as you’d expect from an alpha, but already you can glimpse the level of functionality to expect from a final product. Well done to all involved.
w3c to revamp html
this has to be good news although I’m not holding my breath for when the standards are finally set, and then for web browsers to adopt them. As it is xhtml is acting as a half way house between where HTML4.01 left off and where HTML5.0 ought to be. XHTML is strictly speaking for web applications and a valid XHTML page is a masked invalid HTML4.o1 page – but its an accepted standard to some extent albeit not totally correct.
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