Archive for June, 2003
XmlDesk Alpha
I’ve released the first public alpha version of XmlDesk. You can download it from here. I’d love to have your feedback.
XmlDesk: Home
I did it! My first and brand new GotDotNet Workspace is up and running. It’s not a revolutionary project but for me (and I think for you outta there too) is useful. XmlDesk, is a tool “aggregator” to help Xml developers.
It’s in alpha and in this time only one feature is there.
The WaSP : Opinion about IE and standards
The Web Standards Project published an article whose title is: End of Free IE Not the End of Web Standards. Check it out.
Scoble on Zeldman
Robert Scoble comments the latest Zeldman assertion about web tools and standards, and continues with a clever hint about RSS and the future.
It’s news time 2
Some news:
- Sysinternals newsletter editor Mark Russinovich switches to Mozilla
- Red Hat plans Open Source Java
- MySQL de-bundled from PHP5
- Eric Kidd writes about “The Missing Future”
Update:
- Some interesting slides from the Rotor workshop
- Imagination at Work!
- HyperLinked ECMA C# Specification
- dotnetbase
Avoid ASP.NET
ASP.NET…if you know it, you avoid it. My friend deelan’s post starts in this way. Is written in Italian, so if you can’t read it…then I will summarize it here adding my comments.
He refers to the two recents posts made by Zeldman. The content of his own post is about the non standards compliancy of ASP.NET generated code, the “imperative” adaptive code feature (If you are IE then you’re a high-level browser and you can render everything, all the other browsers are down-level… and this is not true in the reality, since I tried to change the UA of Mozilla and the 90+% of the “high-level HTML” gets rendered correctly). He finishes with an important statement (in my opinion): ASP.NET doesn’t have a real and powerful templating system. You can get something like it with user controls but it’s not the same thing. I mean something a-la-Zope where you can inherit everything to create a real-visual-inheritance-template-system. I think, anyway, that the worst of this mis-features is the XHTML (Transitional is enough, but obviously Strict is better) non-compliancy that invalidates all the pages unless you render all the stuff yourself but in this way you lost all the benefits of the great idea behind ASP.NET. I really think is a great idea but if will follow the W3C directives and implement a templating system…then ASP.NET will definitely be the best option outta there!
Big Picture of the XML Family
Are you involved in XML development? This is for you all: Big Picture of the XML Family of Specifications by Ken Sall
Reflector becoming better
Lutz Roeder’s Reflector is becoming better day by day. In the last version the annoying window searching for italian resources has disappeared. Great! And in the SDK there’s an addin for Delphi…
