RasterWeb!Will Tablet PC‘s take off? I dunno, personally I wouldn’t be able to do the handwriting thing for any amount of time. I’ve spent so many years using a keyboard that it’s almost more natural to me than handwriting. If I try to write with a pen on paper, my wrist gets pretty sore, and it’s pretty damn illegible. I wonder if the kids of today will think that handwriting, or typing, is more natural in a few years time…
We took another small break from redesigning to update our skin for AmphetaDesk. In the spirit of release early and release often, we present minigr of 20021107… A few new features here and there…
We took a small break from redesigning to spit out a skin for AmphetaDesk. In the spirit of release early (but not neccessarily release often) we present minigr. If you love it, hate it, or don’t care… let me know…
We did two demos with two different vendors recently. Actually the first one did a presentation using static pages, but didn’t mention it was using static pages until someone asked about what they were seeing. I first determined they were using static pages by the fact that they were using a PowerBook, but the app depends on IIS and MS SQL Server, and I didn’t see a Windows box in the room. I confirmed it was static pages when I saw the url in the location bar of the browser. I was kind of hoping we could get through the whole demo so I could ask at the end when we could see the real demo. The second demo was one of those affairs where they give you a url, you go there, and then the page tells you that you’ll need Internet Explorer. The developers tell you it really will work with other browsers/platforms when completed. This usually signals a big red flashing alarm in my head. I ended up viewing the demo using Mozilla and the uabar and had no real problems. So, were the developers too lazy, or perhaps too incompetent, to actually test their app in some other browser? Are they looking to lower their support needs by only supporting the ‘officially’ approved browser? What’s the deal?
The work continues on creating a fully modern web site… We’ve opted to use a PNG image here and there, and oh, looks like IE on Windows is having some problems… ah well, the price of progress… In that case, I think I might convert all images to PNG…
What’s the current status of PNG support in web browsers:
As of mid-2002, things are actually looking quite good–with the continued exception of MSIE for Windows, of course…