Hi Tech

Posted on August 19, 2006 by Arthur

I‘m It's almost too good to be true!shocked to find out the latest Hi-Tech in webdevelopment: apparently it’s possible to take some site’s RSS and convert it back to plain HTML so that it can be read on Windows Mobile Devices!

This is such an achievement that we all can get our old Internet Explorers (3.0, right?) out of the ‘diskette-box’ so we can read Techcrunch without the markup. That’s evil of me, you say? Hey: Pocket Internet Explorer was developed out of Internet Explorer 3.

That said: I downloaded FireFox 2.0 (Beta!), just to see the ‘shiny buttons’ Alfons was talking about in one of the postings below. I’m not sure what Mozilla’s contingency plan is regarding installing newer versions of Firefox on top of older ones. If you feel obliged, you can download FireFox from Mozilla’s BonEcho pages. However, what is impressive about this FireFox release is that it is able to restore sessions, which comes in handy if your browser crashed (Reminder to self to make a screenshot of Firefox restoring the original state).

Talking about browsers, there are people who managed to port KHTML to Windows, which is called ‘Webkit’ in Apple terms. There’s even a working Webkit-based browser for Windows, which can be used for browsing but that’s about it. It will be interesting to see where the developer wants to go with his Swift browser.

Update: Firefox restoring a crashed session

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14 Responses to Hi Tech

  1. alfons says:
    August 19, 2006 at 10:13 am AST

    I CAN’T CILCK ON THE MIAGE!!!

  2. alfons says:
    August 19, 2006 at 10:15 am AST

    THAT RESTROE SESSION FAETURE IS A DUMP MY FRIEND. IF I LOGG OF WITHOUT COLSING FIREFOX, IT ALSO SOHWS THIS DIALOG.

  3. Arthur says:
    August 19, 2006 at 10:42 am AST

    Please turn off your caps lock. A support technician will be calling you within the hour.

  4. Arthur says:
    August 19, 2006 at 10:45 am AST

    IF I LOGG OF WITHOUT COLSING FIREFOX, IT ALSO SOHWS THIS DIALOG.

    Hey man: this is why it’s called BETA. If you need a full-featured browser-no-fuzz with no problems at all, try Internet Explorer 3.0. It should run fine under Wine too.

  5. Arthur says:
    August 19, 2006 at 10:49 am AST

    I CAN’T CILCK ON THE MIAGE!!!

    Yes you can. Have you considered slowing down the double-click speed of your mouse?

  7. Arthur says:
    August 19, 2006 at 3:03 pm AST

    No it does not.

    Actually it did: it got stuck in my cache though. What happened was that I corrected the attachment using the ‘post-edit’ screen in WordPress, but after updating, WordPress ‘nulled’ the field post_parent for that particular entry. I’m not sure why the developers put that field in the table wp_posts, if you think about the fact that users might think about reusing ‘attachments’ for other posts. Why not use a one to many or many to many relationship… this is asking for troubles…

    Bad design. Brrr.

  8. alfons says:
    August 19, 2006 at 4:02 pm AST

    What you need Explorer 3 for?

  9. Arthur says:
    August 19, 2006 at 4:06 pm AST

    To prove a point.

  10. alfons says:
    August 19, 2006 at 4:08 pm AST

    Is this a virtual machine, no?

  11. Arthur says:
    August 19, 2006 at 4:12 pm AST

    No. I just ran it from within Windows XP.

  12. Arthur says:
    August 19, 2006 at 4:18 pm AST

    The other day when I was reconfiguring the MyNote I was looking for Winzip: Gayle gave me a disk (1.44 MB one). There was a Windows 3.1 version on it. It worked too. Can you imagine.

    In 4 years, the Old Windows 3.1 look will be fashionable. Mark my words.

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