Rotor (formerly known as SSCLI) made me crazy in these days… but now (after reinstalling Visual Studio .NET 2003 accordingly to Sam Gentile’s tip) I got it and I can “play” with it. My next steps are: follow the guidelines given to me by Peter Drayton and Jim Hogg (thanks very much) at the yesterday’s “CLR Internals” conference here at Microsoft Italy in Milan; the second step will be to install Gyro, the Rotor implementation of generics and finally…have fun.
About “request for features”:
Thanks to Robert Scoble for pointing out my previous post about IE on his blog.
And also thanks to Sean Alexander for his great and useful Microsoft Product Feedback Resources post.
Everyone knows Internet Explorer and almost everyone uses it. In the last three months I’ve installed the whole pletora of browsers available for Windows: Mozilla 1.3/.14a, Phoenix/Firebird, Netscape Navigator 7, Opera 6/7 and some less-known browser such as K-Meleon… I noticed that, except for obvious differences, that all of them have some nice features that IE lacks of. I use IE at work (and also at home) and I think that kind of nifty features can be very useful for users and developers.
I think that the “must have” features are:
I hope one day will have IE 6.x or 7th version with some (or all) of this features and more (especially tabbed browsing which is definitely essential for pre-WinXP releases of Windows).
Is there a “request for features” place on Microsoft website?
SharpReader is definitely the best RSS aggregator I’ve ever tried.
I’m not the only one who thinks that. Here are some great opinions:
I wrote the SSR post and SharpReader linked my post with other related to that in my aggregator. Very good Luke, very good.
As I thought yesterday the Firebird (the RDBMS) community got angry about the renaming of Phoenix browser… Thanks to MozillaZine for the hot links.
I was looking at the Small Screen Rendering technology developed by Opera Software
and I think it seems very good. I tried a bunch of CSS-based sites and all worked well.
Take a look at a snapshot of this blog with SSR!
Do you know Phoenix? The Mozilla slim brother and also-Gecko based fork of it…
Ok, forget it! From now on its name is: Firebird. It’s been renamed ’cause Phoenix Technologies owns the trademark.
ps. isn’t there another open source project (an RDMBS) called “Firebird”? Look: http://www.firebirdsql.com/
I think there will be a lack of new names and brands in the near future, don’t you?
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