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I’m in total agreement with the suckiness of Network Solutions. They’re slimy and incompetent. I’ve been using Joker.com for years without problems.
Let’s put NetSol to death. We’re the Alpha Geeks of our social circles. When people ask us about registering domains, let’s be sure to tell them to register anywhere except NetSol, because they will sell your domain to someone else and do nothing about it.
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Peterned has written Beehive, a DHTML API which he used to write some classic games in DHTML, like Pacman and Scorched Earth. Cool!
On the other hand, all these DHTML sites using JavaScript to load pages (and making them impossible to bookmark)? Not cool. I mean really, if you’re going to go and do that, why not just go and use Flash? It’ll be easier for you and just as frustrating for your audience. Same with the DHTML scrollbars. I’m not sure what the point is for general use when all they do is break expected functionality. I can understand using this stuff for applications or when they address specific needs, but most of the time the kludginess outweigh any gains you might have for general sites and web pages.
Infinera Inside? I suppose only time will tell, however photonic circuitry seems pretty damn cool. Discussion on /.
Paul hunted down some slightly less sanitized sources for news in the Middle East. Even better is the recent K5 discussion on first person accounts (from both sides) on some of what’s going on. Of course, it’s doubtful reading all this stuff will actually make you a better person or make the world a better place. New tagline: random($foo), your daily source of bleakness.
Saw a post on blackbeltjones on the new BBC4 branding. Pretty way cool.
So, looks like some Mozilla guys are getting into blogging. Hopefully Dave Winer is right and we do get some wizzy stuff. I’ll be happy if I can get Bug 58850 fixed before it 1.0 (no DHTML text replacement’s in textareas until the ranging gets fixed; here’s a test I wrote back in Dec 2000), although maybe Bug 97284 could magically be completed…
Until then, MSIE folk can gloat (while not dealing with rampant ActiveX controls :P):
New to me: Jesse’s Browser support for Bookmarklets chart. Definitely some interesting issues.
In the spirit of the Free Software Song, I suppose:
♫ Free your code, the rest will follow
With many eyes, all bugs are shallow ♪
Actually, I just posted that because I liked those Unicode music symbols. Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources is a pretty cool page. It includes all kinds of test pages as well as an atomz search that while not ideal, does work.
I was doing some followup, and although the original article @ Extremetech reported that FFD LCD screens would be going into production in this quarter, it looks like it’ll be 2003 before they come out.
I really like the LCD screen on my work machine, and seeing as I spend almost as much time staring at the screens at home, it’d probably be worthwhile. I’m looking at a Viewsonic, Planar, or Samsung screen. Interesting to note, if you specify your country on the Samsung site, you’re taken into a Broadvision session which makes it impossible to bookmark the pages you’re looking at. How 1999.
I got this A Conversation with Don Norman in an email this morning. Fluff, but fun stuff for design weenies. I wasn’t going to post about it, but I saw it on elegant hack. What made me do a double-take is that this interview is from April 1996. It also reminds me that I should probably take a look through the latest issue of Interactions. It’s sitting in a slowly growing pile of unread mail and periodicals in my apartment. No doubt there are probably some important items in there that I should have gotten to by now already.