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Permanent link to archive for Friday, October 30, 1998. Friday, October 30, 1998

DaveNet: Safe Computing and Communicator 4.5

Interhack's take on the What's Related. 

Apple exec Avie Tevanian's written deposition in the Microsoft anti-trust case, released earlier today. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Reports from News.com,

MSNBC,

SJ Mercury-News.

BusinessWeek: Small companies moving to MSIE

Python.org: The XML Bookmark Exchange Language. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Neat-o!

http://www.mozillazine.org/. ;

Browserwatch discussion about What's Related? 

Chuck Shotton's KirbyCam is still operating! Permanent link to this item in the archive.

But where's Kirby? And where's Chuck?

ICE got me thinking that it may be time to try out a new business model in the Frontier developer community. 

CRN: Authoring group launches ICE

WebReview: A Perl script to get hockey scores

News.com: CA buys into 3D. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"An easy-to-use, video game-style visual interface will be the way IT managers will want to interact with their applications going forward."

SJ Merc: Something to think about  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

next time you want to send someone a flame.

NY Times: Mac OS is better than ever


Permanent link to archive for Thursday, October 29, 1998. Thursday, October 29, 1998

Safe computing issue: Netscape 4.5 and URLs

Jeremy Quinn wants a scriptable digital camera. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Steve Fuchs made the Nikon digital camera scriptable, as a skunkworks project.

Nikon management might be surprised by how many of these they sell now that it's known to be scriptable.

IBM: WebSphere Studio. Sounds like Nirvana! 

MSNBC: Netscape, Microsoft and AOL. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Politics at the summit of the software industry.

ZDNet: Selling across borders

Digita is an operating environment for digital cameras and imaging peripherals. 

Steve Fuch's BirdBath. The birds do favors for you! 

Updated: Nirvana Server feature list. 

Here's a slice of the Nirvana development process. 

From an email I posted this morning: "OK, every once in a while it crashes. But what's more amazing, when you know what it's doing, is that there are times when it doesn't." 

Want to come back to a flamer? Try this: Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"Interesting points. You must be a very smart person! Thanks for sharing

your vast intelligence with a person such as myself who can learn so much

from a person of your depth and wisdom, not to mention broad experience.

How can I possibly repay you for all that you have given me?"


Permanent link to archive for Wednesday, October 28, 1998. Wednesday, October 28, 1998

Reuters: Apple felt threatened, went with Microsoft

News.com: When.com plans calendar launch

St Laurent: Building XML Applications in Java. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

It's a book, the early chapters are there.

Wired: Andy Grove says doctors need PCs

Notes and questions from my first look at the ICE spec. 

Interhack: Privacy problems with What's Related


Permanent link to archive for Tuesday, October 27, 1998. Tuesday, October 27, 1998

DaveNet: Think

Steve Wozniak:  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"It's clear that Netscape succeeded at replacing Windows. More of my

computer usage nowdays involves network directives than OS directives. This

is probably the general concept that Netscape wanted to follow to its

golden end. It's just that IE came along to block it, not better versions

of Windows."

W3C: ICE format and protocol

Wired: Syndicating the web

InternetWorld: Using channels to manage data

Wired: Netscape retools for standards

InfoWorld: IBM retools for the Internet Age

Red Herring: VCs hold court in Boston. Wow. They're very arrogant! 

InfoWorld: Windows NT is history. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"This is a product that can usher you into the next millennium," said Brad Chase, vice president of Windows marketing at Microsoft.

Robert X. Cringely: Microsoft is Already Crippled

Another way to do What's Related? Nah. 

News.com: Yahoo eyes business deals

SJ Merc: Unix Gaining in NT Rivalry

The alternate home page takes a lickin keeps on tickin. 


Permanent link to archive for Monday, October 26, 1998. Monday, October 26, 1998

Thea's Galleria Permanent link to this item in the archive.

goes to Brockhaus, Germany, to a site that combines Frontier workflow automation with

DHTML templates designed in Macromedia Dreamweaver.

InfoWorld: IBM buys Build-it, builds on WebDAV

Lots of blue-chip visitors today as pointers to the  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

What's Related

app get passed around the net.

Famous R&D organizations, universities and big-time magazines.

Conclusion: The combination of Netscape and XML is good pull.

Fill out a form to attend tomorrow's ICE Summit. 

What is http://when.com/? ;

Due to a system glitch, this article was offline for the weekend.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Still diggin!

More new samples for Frontier 5.1.4 users. 

MacInTouch is reporting serious compatibility issues with Mac OS 8.5. 

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Permanent link to archive for Sunday, October 25, 1998. Sunday, October 25, 1998

NY Times: Microsoft is on top of the world, for now. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"I'm sorry, but Mr. Gates is busy teaching a competitor about Windows."

News.com: New server for e-commerce. Interesting combination of features. 

Don't forget, clocks go back one hour this morning. Spring forward, fall back. 


Permanent link to archive for Saturday, October 24, 1998. Saturday, October 24, 1998

DaveNet: Netscape's XML App

Tom Fuerstner wants to hook Frontier into Tango on NT. Can you help? 

Our interface to Netscape's What's Related? server. 

I just released the source code for whatsRelated.root, the Frontier application behind the interface. 

More info from Guha at Netscape. 

Microsoft: Security advisory for IE4 users

In eMediaWeekly, Henry Norr reviews Mac OS 8.5. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"Although this release does offer some nifty new features, it mostly reflects a focused, disciplined effort to clear bottlenecks and eliminate misfeatures customers have complained about for years. On the whole, it does a very good job."


Permanent link to archive for Friday, October 23, 1998. Friday, October 23, 1998

What's Related? More than meets the eye.. 

I did a little bit of digging and found out that Netscape's What's Related server is an XML application! Yee-hi. Can I parse it? You betcha! Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I'll have a demo app up first thing tomorrow morning. Y'all come back sooon!

W3C: HTML Components

There's a new beta Perl Development Kit for Windows that's supposed to allow much easier embedding of Perl. 

Here are the release notes from the PDK download. 

I just spent 1/2 hour browsing around the sample scripts folder that comes with the Perl release. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

It's all about COM and connecting with other scripting languages on Windows.

DomainSurfer can find the scripting domains. 

Tim Bray writes:  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"Being a textually-oriented kinda guy, I went looking for 'text' domains."

Tim's favorite site was batExterminators.com.

The alternate home page is hummin right along, staying in synch with www.scripting.com. 

Doc Searls' dating theory. It's actually Joyce's. 

This year's Agenda focused on Washington

New domain: http://docserver.userland.com/. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Multi-homing works on our new server! Neat-O.


Permanent link to archive for Thursday, October 22, 1998. Thursday, October 22, 1998

Apple in Fortune: Then and now

The United Nations opened  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

a new worldwide election support website.

A 3000-page site, frequently updated, with a companion CD-ROM,

managed

by Frontier.

New sample script,  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

produces nested object database table displays, useful for debugging.

Paul Howson's XMLTR suite Permanent link to this item in the archive.

translates XML documents to HTML or to a tool-specific markup language for print publication.

Thanks!

Howson also took a look at XSL. 

SJ Merc: Microsoft scores. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Netscape's Clark wanted to do a deal.

But on the other side, the dark side..

SJ Merc: More Java emails. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"Subversion has always been our best tactic," John Ludwig,

the Microsoft vice president in charge of Java development, told his

colleagues in a memo describing his company's efforts to take on Sun's Java.

"It leaves the competition confused, and they don't know what to shoot at anymore."

ZDNN: Running Java Fast


Permanent link to archive for Wednesday, October 21, 1998. Wednesday, October 21, 1998

TechWeb: ICE makes a Splash

Mother Jones on the Microsoft trial. 

David Coursey: Is Microsoft so Wrong

I just rebuilt the archive page for October. Sorry for the delay! 

Following up on yesterday's talk about Perl and XML, it would be helpful if there Permanent link to this item in the archive.

was a vision statement from Larry Wall and perhaps Tim Bray, explaining

where Perl and XML meet. This would give other people working in XML in other

environments, including ours, an idea of what parts of XML applications

make sense in Perl.

And to Frontier users, stop apologizing! Be proud. We're doing great.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

What we're doing is certainly comparable to what the Unix folks are doing.

And in some cases, we do a lot more.

Performance Computing: Unix as Literature


Permanent link to archive for Tuesday, October 20, 1998. Tuesday, October 20, 1998

CNN: Microsoft Trial, Day Two

InfoWorld reports on Barksdale's testimony. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"I have never been in a meeting in my 33-year business career in which a competitor had so blatantly implied that we should either stop competing with it or the competitor would kill us."

Mail Starting 10/20/98. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Whew! Finally the Mail pages are working on the new server. It's been almost a month.

One important note, like all other URLs on nirvana.userland.com,

the one above will change.

Platform Issue:  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

We're planning on integrating Microsoft's HTML display control in Frontier 6 on Windows. This is the right time

to mention that this capability does not exist on Mac OS. To Apple, it's an important Windows feature that

that Mac OS does not have.

Larry Wall wants  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Perl to be the best scripting language for XML work.

This always bothered me. How do I respond?

It's a good idea for Perl to invest in XML. I support that.

Then I figured it out.

Frontier 5 already is, by far, the best scripting environment for XML work.

O'Reilly press release: Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"Leading Perl and XML developers collaborating. Goal: To make Perl the top scripting language for XML."

Background: Frontier 5 and XML. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

And we're not the only ones working on XML in Frontier.

Technology Solutions  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

has adapted James Clark's expat parser to run, elegantly,

in the Frontier environment, cross-platform and native.

It's the same parser Netscape and Perl are using.

We've got this one covered!

XMLU is producing a new event called <TAG>'98. 

Olav Martin Kvern: Fonts for Coding


Permanent link to archive for Monday, October 19, 1998. Monday, October 19, 1998

Jon Postel, 1943-1998. 

DocServer for the Future. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Frontier 5.1.4 users can subscribe to a database of Frontier documentation.

Nirvana!

Advanced Frontier users: WebEdit for Guest Databases

Those tricky Netscape guys! The webmaster of whitehouse.com got redirected too. 

Jakob Nielsen: Failure of Corporate Websites

Press Release: Computer Associates supports Linux. 

NEC: SocksCap

NY Times: Microsoft goes to court

SJ Merc: Virtual Courtroom

CNN: More Clinton documents released

W3C: Change history for HTTP


Permanent link to archive for Sunday, October 18, 1998. Sunday, October 18, 1998

 


Permanent link to archive for Saturday, October 17, 1998. Saturday, October 17, 1998

MacInTouch: Henry Norr looks at Sherlock. 

RCFoC: A business-card size CD-ROM

This morning I was thinking about how glossaries will work on nirvana.userland.com. 

I was also playing with pagetables and paramtables


Permanent link to archive for Friday, October 16, 1998. Friday, October 16, 1998

Frontier Users:  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

New sample scripts illustrate how to combine guest databases with XML-RPC and

how to use a postFilter scipt to do global redirection on web servers,

An interesting connection between the needs of hand-held users and XML. 

eMediaweekly: Vendors cheer Apple results. Yay! 

Veo Systems' vision for XML in Internet Commerce. 

InfoWorld: Symantec acquires Quarterdeck

CNN: Greenspan cuts interest rates, stocks soar. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Maybe we'll avoid a recession in the US?


Permanent link to archive for Thursday, October 15, 1998. Thursday, October 15, 1998

What do you know?  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

About scripting and Mac System 8.5?

We hear that interapplication messaging is faster, and there's

a lot of new functionality that's scriptable, specifically Control Panel settings.

Wired: Y2K and Prisons

This is what a happy server looks like. 

Kurt Egger has a Sherlock plug-in that connects System 8.5's search engine up to our search engines. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

That was quick!

I just found out about Info-ZIP

WinZip has a command-line interface. 

Upside: A Big Yawn for Linux. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I disagree. Linux is a great server OS and it's attracting developer investment, real stuff, not like Java.

News.com: IBM Backs Apache

Forbes: Vignette is the Story

NY Times: Apple's profitable year.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"Now let us gloat." Great quote!


Permanent link to archive for Wednesday, October 14, 1998. Wednesday, October 14, 1998

Yesterday, Brent Simmons visited Microsoft to learn about VML,  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

the vector graphics format that will be supported in MSIE 5.

MacWorld reviews Mac OS 8.5. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"For the first time, the software applications that control the Mac's networking, printing, and searching are scriptable; so are Apple System Profiler, ColorSync, Location Manager, and much more."

Tim Bray: XML support in MSIE 5 Beta 2

MacWEEK: $106 million profit for Apple. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

New consumer laptop announcement expected.

Red Herring: Sendmail pits angel investors against VCs

Yesterday, Jimmi Johnson visited me to get a behind-the-scenes demo of Nirvana, and I learned a lot  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

and got a bunch of ideas.


Permanent link to archive for Tuesday, October 13, 1998. Tuesday, October 13, 1998

InfoWorld: Microsoft gives XML a big bear hug

USA Today: WebTV is watching you

Salon on Perl and Larry Wall. 

The alternate home page now has a Find function. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Try this search, and I'll get an endorsement.

Loes Pieper's Annotate by Haiku Server

Industry Standard: Bringing Online Stars Offline

Web Review: Making your Website PalmPilot-friendly

Following yesterday's discussion, I'm going to do a Palm-friendly interface for Scripting News, but it'll probably take a couple of weeks. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I want it to fit in with Frontier's existing scalable content facilities.

Infoworld reviews Pictorius, a team-based web development environment. 

Wired: Taking the Web's Political Pulse


Permanent link to archive for Monday, October 12, 1998. Monday, October 12, 1998

InfoWorld: DMTF backs XML standard

Builder.com: Getting started with Apache

ZDNet's DevHead site, a competitor for Builder.com? 

Next question! Brent has one for ISAPI experts. 

News.com: Apple's first yearly profit since 1995

In-Progress's Interaction can send XML-RPC messages to Frontier. 

Do you use a Palm Pilot? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Every page served on Nirvana is dynamic.

What should Scripting News look like on a tiny screen?

For people who asked what kind of load Nirvana is taking, it's pretty light. 12820 hits in the last 26 hours. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

You can increase the load a little by viewing this page,

it will refresh every 30 seconds.

RFC: #renderTableWith. 

Here's an interesting Frontier verb, html.buildGlossary,  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

that I hadn't paid much attention to. I'm now paying a lot more attention to glossaries,

they're the key to integrating all the different worlds that co-exist on our new server.

Gianni Rubagotti: XML in Italian

Brent Simmons wants his .ASPs working with IIS. 

SJ Merc: High tech moves to Maui

Also in today's Merc, Chris Nolan  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

talks about the "exclusive" Agenda conference. Yes I got invited, but I chose not to go.

It was at this conference two years ago  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

that I had my famous exchange with Larry Ellison. It got me quite a reputation with that crowd, but I'd like to speak,

not just be an audience shill.

InfoWorld's Bob Metcalfe, also the host of Agenda, on SandPiper's Footprint. 


Permanent link to archive for Sunday, October 11, 1998. Sunday, October 11, 1998

The Scripting News Archive page is being maintained in parallel with the main Scripting News page

How do I do it? XML-RPC, of course. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

You already knew that!

Dave Gudeman: A dissenting opinion on Java

Don't be bashful,  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

leave your questions, comments and suggestions

on the discussion board.

IBM's Rexx home page

Red Herring: Plumbers' Helpers

Macrobyte: Tile Windows 1.0

Jon Bosak:  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Religion.200 is a group of four religious works marked up for electronic

publication from publicly available sources including

The Old Testament, The New Testament, The Quran, and The Book of Mormon.

I unzipped Bosak's FTP download and placed the files, unmodified, on our server. 

Dan Gillmor in the SJ Merc interviews 12 industry notables on the Microsoft-DOJ lawsuit. 


Permanent link to archive for Saturday, October 10, 1998. Saturday, October 10, 1998

The next site is ready for review: Scripting News Stories

BTW, the primary access interface for this site and the Archives site will be a search engine. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I've given up doing outline listings of sites containing 800 articles.

Joy 2.0 Permanent link to this item in the archive.

unifies JavaScript, C, Objective-C and Tcl into a single scripting language for OpenStep/Mach, Rhapsody DR2, OpenStep Enterprise and WebObjects.

What the new format looks like in a text-only browser

I got this weird email from Amazon.com today. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I haven't been there in at least a week.

SJ Merc: Internet industry confident


Permanent link to archive for Friday, October 09, 1998. Friday, October 09, 1998

Preview: What Scripting News might look like in the future.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Please, no complaints about broken links or undefined glossary entries.

I know, and I know.

XML.COM explains WDDX, with examples. 

NY Times: What's on your hard drive

MacWorld's Jason Snell on regular expressions

Web Review's Dale Dougherty on regular expressions

News.com: Warnock demos new stuff

A new feature for the discussion group.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

You can now read messages without having the cookie and without logging on.

Frontier users, if you want to sneak a peak at the source code for the discussion group, start here

Click here if you have some braincells to burn. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

What a trip!

A neat idea for a web gadget, a COM or Apple Event-aware app that  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

takes two parameters, the address of another app, and a window title.

It returns a GIF representation of the bits being displayed in that window.

For live websites, we could show people what's in a specific window on the server.

It would make a *big* difference in the usability of our site and our software.

It's got to be easy to program and as fast as possible.

I'd pay US $195.

Preston Holmes did something like this with clip2gif in August 1996. 

ScreenView is not exactly what I want, but it's cool! I'm going to check it out. 

Andreas Hellstrom reports caching problems with MSIE 4.01/Mac. 

Another problem with MSIE for CGI writers? 

A proposal from 12/96 for a way to make content developers much more powerful. 


Permanent link to archive for Thursday, October 08, 1998. Thursday, October 08, 1998

Dave Kuhlman's excellent survey of  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

current distributed computing technologies, including XML-RPC.

A postscript to yesterday's struggle with cookies and MSIE 4.01/Mac. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I set up a test for the Microsoft people.

It returns a cookie and does the redirect, and (get this!) MSIE 4.01/Mac handles it just fine.

I had found another problem *after* (apparently) incorrectly concluding that the redirect was the problem, MSIE 4.01/Mac doesn't handle cookies with spaces in the name. That was easily fixed by not putting any spaces in the cookie name.

So as Emily Litella used to say... Never Mind!

(And my apologies.)

We reached a big milestone today.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

By our measurements, Frontier 5.1.5b4 running on our 450Mhz

NT4 machine could now serve the flow of www.scripting.com,

with every hit being being a dynamically rendered page.

Web Site Journal interview with Dan Shafer. 

Red Herring: Scriptics makes Tcl respectable

I hear that Microsoft is adding vector graphics to the next beta of MSIE 5/Win. 

ScriptMeridian:Matt Neuburg's lecture on WSFs


Permanent link to archive for Wednesday, October 07, 1998. Wednesday, October 07, 1998

Press release: Microsoft outlines support for WebDAV

Debugging: Cookies, Redirects and MSIE 4.01/Mac

Richard Blumberg reviews REBOL. 

Discussion Group: Why we did a BBS. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Short answer, groupware and content management may look like the same thing, but they're not.

Time: The 50 Cyber-Elites. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

They dig money!

http://www.firewalking.com/. ;

Builder.com reviews Lotus Domino as a web development environment. 

SJ Merc: Symantec sales, profits down. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

"Some guy was working in a panel and blew it up,'' Eubanks said. "It's embarrassing but true.''

Gary White is looking for a copy of Multimate. 


Permanent link to archive for Tuesday, October 06, 1998. Tuesday, October 06, 1998

DaveNet: A Brief Note

A bunch of features and fixes for the discussion group. 

Smart Reseller: IBM is taking the offensive, again.  

The IBM strategic document behind the SR story. 

Press release: Lycos acquires Wired Digital. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Very interesting. I wonder whose look and feel will survive?

Brent Simmons has a question about Microsoft's Personal Web Server. 

Windows NT Magazine: Win32 Scripting Journal

TetraSix: The French XML Site. 


Permanent link to archive for Monday, October 05, 1998. Monday, October 05, 1998

The first test app for our new membership-cookie-mail loop code on Nirvana.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

It's a very simple application, a discussion board. Read some mindless messages. Leave one of your own.

But please don't ask for features in the discussion board, it's just a test app. Thanks!

InternetWorld can't find the beef in XML. 

HRML is Human Resource Markup Language. 

Doug Brewer: ODBC over XML-RPC.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Hot damn!

Wired: Macromedia's comeback

Mark Bernstein compares hypertext and baseball. 

Got JavaScript and DHTML?  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

It gets you going and then you realize it can never work.

Updated: The XML FAQ

NY Times: Big trouble in Japan's banking system

Wired: REBOL

Tish is back. Thank god! 

Wednesday is the fourth anniversary of DaveNet.  


Permanent link to archive for Sunday, October 04, 1998. Sunday, October 04, 1998

InfoWorld: Politics in the XML World. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

It's fun!

Over the weekend three scripting.com sites were converted to run dynamically on Nirvana:  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

DocServer,

24 Hours of Democracy, and

my personal site.

Jakob Nielsen: Personalization is Over-Rated

ICOM Datenverarbeitungs: XML Parser for Delphi

Where did the expression "Well shiver me timbers!" come from? What about "Datenverarbeitungs"? 


Permanent link to archive for Saturday, October 03, 1998. Saturday, October 03, 1998

James Robertson: It's Time For Practical XML

PC WEEK reviews Trellix 2.0. 

Web Developer: REBOL, New Language for the Net? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

What do you all think?

Web Developer: DOM Level 1 Becomes a W3C Recommendation

Industry Standard: How to Make Love to Developers

More signs of progress on the page. 


Permanent link to archive for Friday, October 02, 1998. Friday, October 02, 1998

Nov 15-18, Chicago: XML '98

We could really use something like this page,  

explaining how to keep NT servers up and running and happy. 

Simon Garland recommends www.sysinternals.com and www.pureperformance.com

Lawrence Lee recommends Workstation NT

We improved Nirvana's log browser to show us  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

which requests are taking too long. For the most part it's

performing well enough, but sometimes it takes 5 seconds

for a 1K file to be served. There are definitely some

threading issues in there. We're on it.

A new backgrounder on what we're doing on Nirvana. 


Permanent link to archive for Thursday, October 01, 1998. Thursday, October 01, 1998

Why do my NT systems go 100-Percent CPU-wise for no apparent reason? 

SF Examiner: Clinton in Silicon Valley

Web Review: The seven stages of type appreciation

Red Herring on Vignette. 

Motorola: VoxML

THINK is a Linux outliner. 

PC WEEK: Will Oracle 8i kill Windows?  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Weird question.

Clean up your web pages with HTML TIDY

XML.COM: Microsoft and XML.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Somehow we missed this in July, but it's still very interesting.

I wonder what they mean by a structured editor... 

Is it an outliner

Nirvana's first sexy feature: A calendar UI

A screen shot of the database table that the calendar is browsing. 

     

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