Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

TLS for Frontier/Radio

Macrobyte Resources announces a TLS extension for Frontier/Radio!

Macrobyte: Transport Layer Security

Sweet!

Happy Faces

Yahoo! News Photos - Reuters... picture of the Canadian Women's speedskating suits in the World Championships.

I told you Canadian Girls Rule. Shake what your mama gave you!

and still more…

David Kurtz writes:

The first web browser was graphical. It was a NeXTStep application written by Tim Berners-Lee.

(I don't think he meant layoutless, but I could be wrong!)

Layout is essential in many ways. If it wasn't important CSS wouldn't exist. I don't think hypertext or hyperlinking in HTML suffers because of tables of lack of semantic structure, but it sure could if you're talking XML.

Current MOZX build

Today's Mozilla for OSX build seems really crashy OMM, when submitting forms.

More CSS talk

Over time I'm finding more of the talk about CSS for layout/design that happened recently. Good links and info on these pages or from these pages:

Jeff's Radio Weblog, Feb 13th / Glish: CSS layout techniques / CSS Koolaid for Newbies

And now an observation... (this isn't a flame, it's not even "pushback")

Many people have remarked that they don't understand why Dave Winer "doesn't get it" w.r.t. CSS vs. table layouts. I have noticed instances where Userland poo-poos a technology, method or standard that is otherwise overwhelmingly favoured... which is not easy to implement or otherwise would not perform well in Frontier for one reason or another.

In this (CSS, tableless) situation, Userland has a LOT of HTML hard-coded in scripts... in Manila, Radio and the fundamental "HTML Framework" which dates back to what, 1995? And a lot of that HTML doesn't validate as valid HTML4 or XHTML, as designers will remark. And not surprisingly, there's a lot of HTML Table code in there. If Userland jumped on the CSS bandwagon they'd find themselves crushed under an avalanche of work to make their products compatible with "the movement". Work which... frankly won't do much to improve their bottom line right now. And that's the bottom line.

So don't be surprised, and don't read too much into there not being unanimous support for CSS layout at the moment. AND, let's credit Userland for doing a CSS theme for Manila and commisioning the Radio-Design group on Yahoo! Groups.

Meglander Zoonut

I found a link to Megnut today on Scripting News and decided to see what she had today.

Maybe it's lame to point to people who agree with me instead of disagree with me, but since I haven't said it myself it's not like I'm really being redundant. She said it better than I would have. What did she say? She liked Zoolander, and also likes Office Space (though that's far less controversial IMHO )

I loved both movies (Office Space was better obviously).

FOX killing Futurama

I found the Can't get enough Futurama site via the blogdex sidebar.

I didn't realize that FOX was killing Futurama. That sucks! I love that show!

There's a petition you can sign that may or may not actually help in saving the show.

Waaahhh!

Joel reveals The Iceberg Secret

Joel on Software - The Iceberg Secret, Revealed

Ugh. So many violent memories come into focus reading that piece. I couldn't finish it. Maybe later. But he's right, Customers Don't Know What They Want.

Damn fine Roots

Rafe notes that "If you've been watching the Olympics, you know that the Canadians have the best outfits.".

A lot of people have been talking about Roots and the Canadian team's fashion (which also kicked ass in Nagano, btw).

I read a story a couple days ago about Roots' big win because of the Sale/Pelletier story. I found it in Google's cache but can't find an URL that still works. Oh, I just found it (it was a CP story, so I found it on myBC.com):

CP: Roots enjoys windfall at Olympics thanks in part to skating controversy

Another interesting story about Roots/Canadians:

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: OH, CANADA: U.S. DRAWN BY FASHION AND CONTROVERSY

Hey, Canadian Girls Rule, I thought everyone knew that.

;-(

I can get Roots garb dirt cheap here in Canada. I can't believe the prices people are paying for it on eBay! Want some?