The joy of being a consultant is that frequently you end up being very, very busy. The downside is that you frequently end up very, very busy, and the other...
The last couple of weeks have been a time of exhiliration and heartbreak, and have forced me to seriously examine what my feelings are about the US and my...
Most of us, the people for whom the Metaphorical Web makes any sense whatsoever, are geeks. Not so long ago such a term was used with the greatest of derision,...
Firefox turned 1.0 last week, and in the process managed to hit 1,000,000 downloads in one day. Put that into perspective - Firefox is in the neighborhood of...
Hi Kurt, good story, just wanted to mention that I just downloaded FireFox to give it a try, and found out that the download is only 4.7MB, not 20. ...
Pieter, It went out too soon -- I was trying to save for editing, not publishing, and pressed the wrong button. I'll mentioned that in the final version which...
To the list: Please distregard my previous message.I made a serious error in sending my previous post to this list rather than to Kurt. It was a personal...
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I wondered :). God's blessings. May your work prosper. I certainly shall not publicize any of it. Art Bolstad...
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This was sent to me by a friend, and I thought it would help put into perspective just exactly how far we have come in fifty years. No word yet on the laptop...
I inadvertantly posted this earlier while it was still under development. Sorry for the confusion. Firefox turned 1.0 last week, and in the process managed to...
Micah, Thanks for the notes on this. I had known that IBM was donating xforms code into the Mozilla tree, but hadn't heard any timelines on this. I'd still...
Kurt, you should get rid of whatever key you're pressing or block it with a special instant key-blocker :-) Anyway, I have tried FireFox and I liked it, but...
Pieter, Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, since the key is ctrl-A, which seems to have some diabolical meaning to the Blogspot editor, it's a hard one to...
Kurt Can you tell us about any info you have heard, or speculate about regarding SVG being available in Firefox as an "extension" widget, or other form? (in...
Thanx Kurt for your comments, they are enlightening. Currently, I am attending a Flash MX course due to our company starting to embrace this new tool, and...
Pieter, I'd say that's an accurate assessment, though will have to be honest in saying that I have not had that much of a chance to play with Flash MX, beyond...
David, SVG is currently scheduled to be put into the main tree for Firefox in March 2005, though there's been a lot of development in the back end already, and...
Kurt, At the SVG London Users Group, there was an excellent talk on Simillette, an SVG/XUL/XBL application to replace Simmile, a modelling framework for...
I wish to thank Edd Dumbill for syndicating the Metaphorical Web on his superb blog aggregator site http://planet.xmlhack.com. It's an honor and a privilege,...
Kurt, all... regarding firefox... Something of interest in happening in Germany with Firefox. It's been reported to me informally that speigel.de, one of the...
Every so often, I discover that just when I think I've wrung everthing I can out of XSLT, it is still possible to do something subtle that changes my whole...