13 March 2003

Another alternative to XForms is Xopus - last time I looked this was interesting but buggy, but that was a while ago. As I said to someone a couple of days ago, the problem these days is not defining what the problem is, or what the desired outcomes are, its deciding what tools to apply to acheive the outcomes. It was all sooo much easier when it was a choice between Apple II + Apple Basic or CPM + MBasic. posted at: 10:12:59 AM   Simple markup. I'm currently looking into textile for inspiration.[Sam Ruby] Interesting little thing, there are times when dialogs etc are very cumbersome and a little bit of markup is much easier to use. posted at: 9:50:16 AM   .. since my group does (.NET) System.XML, maybe I can provide some more insight.  ... More managed apps, and more client UI.  Currently about 99% of all desktop apps are native code.  We want to see that number be closer to zero.  This alone is going to put a ton of pressure on teams to do a better job of componentizing their libraries.  [Better Living Through Software] As the tiger would say "how delightful". posted at: 9:30:10 AM   The Blog Explorer now has category and date views, and a pseudo-aggregator....  You can see this by clicking the Explorer link on the top right of pages on the blog web site.  Using an Explorer Bar (in this case the Search Pane) kind of gets you the best of a frameset, without the drawbacks (document titles, synchronization, etc).  [Blog Curioso] This is really cool. Maybe I can do something similar and enable posting/re-posting from it? [ScottW's ASP.NET WebLog] The use of _search or _media as the target of window.open() is not something we directly support in the ZPX browser control - the question is should (can!) we? posted at: 9:16:02 AM   It would appear that if you want an Internet server that does everything, OpenLink's Virtuoso is a candidate to add to the list. posted at: 8:50:22 AM   The CommentAPI. The easiest way to explain it is that you can post a comment via posting an RSS item fragment. [Sam Ruby] Simpe and elegant for a simple facility - much better than the complexities of SOAP/XML-RPC for such a simple service. posted at: 8:29:35 AM

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