After following the Gbrowser story for a few days now (fortunately some of the lnks have been collected together at 456berea street so I don’t have to work to hard) I have to admit to being a bit confused as to how I feel about the whole thing.
A big part of me believes it’ll turn out to be vapourware. A stray comment on bugzilla and the whole thing get blown out of proportion.
Then there’s the part that want’s Mozilla/Firefox/whatever it’s called to succeed. I’ve followed and used Mozilla since 0.8. There’s a history there that I don’t want consigned to a footnote by an upstart browser. Can’t Google simply adopt Firefox? If they’re happy to use the engine then why not use the whole thing?
More recently though (after reading various peoples thoughts) I’ve started to think that maybe whatever Google does it’ll be good for the user (and the devs). I firmly believe that Gecko is currently the best browser engine available today and if Google can get Gecko onto a lot more machines then that can only be a good thing. Maybe it’ll finally force MS to put some serious effort back into IE and bring it into line with current browser technology. I did say maybe.
All this because someone stumbles across a public entry on bugzilla. Vapourware indeed.
The Etherdoxproject has had some content added and code tweaked. It’s proof for me how far I’ve progressed as there were some things that had me wondering why I’d opted for that route instead of the way I’d do it now.
For instance I used <strong> to represent headings. There’s nothing really wrong with it but nowdays I’d use a <hn> tag. It still didn’t bother me enough to go and change it though. I’m too lazy.
As far as I’m concerned people can use tables for layout, non-semantic mark up and have sex with animals but it’s just made me realise how far I’ve come over the last year. I must have been really bad a couple of years back.
Actually I lied. Sex with animals is just weird. Especially if you use tables for layout.
Monkiboi Dot Net hit the big 3 a few days ago. Happy birthday mate (and if that isn’t surreal then I don’t know what is).
We went live earlier this week and although there’s one or two bugs to sort out they’re only minor so allow me to present Colourcards. Again I was code monkey on this one not designer but it looks pretty good. Expect a liquid layout sometime in the future, but don’t hold your breath. One down, three to go.
Ernie Ball died sometime last week. I don’t remember the make of strings I used on my bass as it’s been a while but practically every guitarist I ever played with used his “slinkys” so it’s still a part of my past.
The award for my favourite web comic of the moment goes to Copper.
# cat /dev/hdb > /dev/dsp - Use CTRL-C to kill it when you’ve had enough.
What? September? already?! So what happened there then? As usual when we disappear for a while work is to blame but we’re back. For the moment at least.
I missed the newest release of enlightenment which, according the enlightenment.org Has theme transparency available to the end user. I thought this was a theming addition but then realised (because I don’t have 16.7.1) that it must be something available in the user menu. Sounds fun.
One of my projects is scheduled to go live this week although, technically it’s been sheduled since er… May. The biggest problem has been that real work keeps getting in the way. Plus a mix up meant the order form was re-written twice. Expect some slippage.
My journey into classes is continuing at a slowish pace. I started programming at uni writing (rather bad) assembly language for micro controllers and I think that method of planning and writing code has stayed with me, so I expect to see lines and lines of code in one file. At the moment the only advantage I can see with classes is cleaner code in the main file but then I’m still having trouble with this concept of “objects”. Mind you, at least I don’t have to worry about stack pointers and 2’s complement anymore.
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