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The answer to The Stinky Meat Project: The StinkyFeet Diaries. Rich thinks that this is fake. I can’t say that I blame him, but there are some very odd people in this world. I always say, “No matter what you think, say, or do… someone has thought, said, or done it before.”

“Astounding Comments From the WSP- MozillaZine” the mozilla team defensively responds… Thanks Alan Storm for the link.

WaSP! blasts Netscape. Good, good, good, about fucking time. Thanks from all of us! They say, “…Get rid of Netscape 4, stop hiding behind endless 4.x releases, get with the compliance… quick!…”

Since energy can neither be created, or destroyed. I must concede that I may agree with Einstein. There indeed may be an afterlife, if this is true. Therefore, I would like to return to existance, upon my death, as an Outlook Virus. That would be greeeeaaaat.

Nope, no problems at all, however, I am a Netscape user. Traditionally, Netscape has handled true NNTP news feeds much better than Outlook. However, try Free Agent which is much better than either of them.

Here’s some news about Big Brother’s Carnivore.

Using the new “tell dean” link again from the browser. Right now I’m on the MSDN site. Dean, are you able connect to the server for the newsgroups? I can’t. I’ve been trying the xml one for about a week and I just keep getting….”server not found”. When I use your link it tells me “unable to connect to server”. I have tried to connect to the msnews-gw server as well with no luck….

Netscape Communicator 4.74 Final has been released this evening. This is the last in the 4.xx series browsers before Netscape 6 comes. Warning: this time Netscape finally tips the scales at just over 20 megabytes, wow.

Maxtor Corporation releases an 80GB hard drive. The IBM Deskstar 75GXP sports 75GB for about $540.00 Since the Maxtor Diamond Max 60 is about $260.00, I’d expect this one not to break $400.00. Can you imagine not having two or three of these things, wow… Only 5400 RPM thought. Keep in mind that smaller Fujitsu drives are hitting 15,000 RPM and about 4ms seek times.

Joe, check out the following MS Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.xml.msxlm-webrelease
microsoft.public.xsl
microsoft.public.xml

you can get there by going to msnews.microsoft.com

Well, I added it to Favorites and it works from there too. Back on Yahoo with Favorites open and posting…… cool.

OK….right now I’m writing this with MyYahoo page as the back drop. I installed this “tell dean” link in my I.E. browser “links” (drag and drop). It works despite an “error” of “object expected”. I’ve tried everything and it now all looks the same to me. Like I said, it does work. When you put it in “links” it tells you it might not be safe, yet after you put it in links or favorites and then use it, no errors are displayed. Dean, perhaps you can figure out the last bug….

Sent in by Mike hall

Well, there’s one less source of news: CNET buys rival Ziff-Davis for $1.6 billion I guess the bright side is now, Gary’s Tolowercase program will now be on ZDNet as well as c|net. Of all of the internet media giants that I hate on earth, it’s ZD I hate most. This loathing goes back to the late 80’s for me. Back when ZD net was just a poopy little area on Compuserve and only a couple of mags. I’m sure eveyone will now enjoy those wonderfully objective and unbiased product reviews that are littered the ads of the “top picks” on c|net now… I can’t wait. Whats more, is now Dvoraks pompous and ridiculus drivel may now have even more reach.

The three articles were good though. The software that converted XML based documents into what ever was needed on the client side was really niffty.

I was linking to a newsfeed, but it was very slow. I canned it. Sorry for the delays.

I found a offhanded link on kottke.org: Williams Defender Information and Links. I can’t tell you how much of a defender/stargate fan I was. I mean I was a child of the arcade. Having not many friends (well none really) to hang with, the arcade gave me an escapist retreat. Oh, I had my books, but T.V. sucked. So, when the games began to emerge, so did I… (from my room). Defender was my absolute favorite. Stargate, the sequel was good, but not as good and original as defender. This page is a pretty good “info set” about the game and ROMs that are available.

Well, it works perfectly and looks great. Well done…

One thing though. In order to use the latest W3C namespace for XSLT transformations http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform you need to have the latest version of MSXML (version 3.0) on your machine otherwise *most* of the current XSLT commands will not parse correctly in I.E. 5.0 or 5.5.
This is an example of what I have on my site to construct a hyperlink and what works with the “old” namespace.

This is the XML:
<xlink:simple

xmlns:xlink=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink”
href=”mailto:joe@joeinternet.net”>
<email>Joe</email>
</xlink:simple>

And this is the XSL:
<a>
<xsl:attribute name=”href”>
<xsl:value-of select=”xlink:simple/@href” />
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select=”xlink:simple/email” />
</a>

If a visitor had the latest MSXML then I could simply make an XML link element like this:
<webadd>www.joeinternet.net</webadd>
and the XSL (with the transform namespace) like this;
<a href=”{concat(‘http://’, webadd)}”>
<xsl:value-of select=”webadd” />
</a>

I have an example of the “old” namespace that will work with the built in parser for I.E.5.0+. This is the XML page, and here is the XSL page. Now that I have the xlink working correctly, I will be able to construct my 50+ pages of business listings in XML and use only one stylesheet.

developer.com has an excellent introduction to transformations (XSLT) using IE5. Potentially controversial stuff, fears of M$ taking over yet another piece of the web development pie. Funny, I’ve never compared this before, but I don’t seem to remember Netscape going through all of this when they developed, introduced, and built an entire application development platform around Javascript… But, then again who cares. Won’t be long and Netscape will support all of the DHTML/XML shortcuts and no one will have anything to bitch about.

I followed the link, clicked on “demonstrated” and it gave me back an XSL command from one of my files. My concern was that after running the “test” I got an error when I tried to launch a new browser. It tried to launch Explorer.exe. Now that is scary. I think his “demonstration” is full of bugs. It didn’t leave a “test/txt” file in my temp directory. I had to restart to cure the error the demonstration gave me. What’s up with that??

Did you try the test yet. It worked on mine. I went to the temp directory and sure enough, there was a file called “test.txt” afterward. Scary.

Oh my. I like C#. I can see how it is going to combine the “power” of C++ with the ease of Visual Basic and XML. XML is a piece of cake. The real power behind XML is XSLT. XSLT not only allows for the seperation of style from data but has the functionality/power of a programming language. Here is a great “tutorial” for XSLT that I found at Mulberry Tech. This is the “main” tutorial page that lists Zvon tutorials. They include: XML, DTD, Mozilla (XUL), WML, RDF, XSLT, Perl RE, CSS, and Schematron. Just click on the XSLT (XML based scripting language) link. I like the “framed” version. ZVON tutorials.
XML could be very cost beneficial for a “company” building an intranet from scratch. Each department could have a set of “generic” XSL (stylesheets) in which to format multiple (all) XML data documents/information on a daily basis while having multiple styles to choose from depending upon the contents…….right?

I’m number 51 🙂
I totally agree about Netscape. When looking for XML info, I came close to downloading the Mozilla browser but decided not to because of the constant revisions and bugs that accompany those revisions.

Looks like someone really skewed the results of the browser poll. Any ideas whodunnit? That’ll teach me not to use cookies. Oh well, many props to whomever hit that back button 50 times… – hahahaha!