Tag: Software

Wednesday 2002-06-05 Software

Cross platform WYSIWYG HTML editor

In the beginning Tim Berners-Lee made his original browser double as an WYSIWYG editor. Sadly this was not to last. Since then we have had two types of editors:

desktop application like Dreamweaver, Homesite, etc.
Java applets or Javascript running on browsers.

The first type of editors are bound to specific desktop or OS. The second type are browser specific ie Internet Explorer. Only the text area widget of browsers is cross platform - the lowest common denominator of HTML editor and it's not WYSIWYG.

Now there is a truly browser neutral WYSIWYG HTML editor thanks to Stuart Schoneveld - another example of Flash's power of delivery and deployment. Given that Flash can be packaged into an executable, someday soon we may get an usable editor on both desktops and webtops, cross platform.

References: Timothy Appnel's blog Jon Udell's blog and his column The Universal Canvas

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Friday 2002-05-10 Software

Tile based GUI/Windowing Systems

A few X window managers come close to tile:

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Friday 2002-04-26 Software

sweetcode

To quote: Sweetcode reports innovative free software. "Innovative" means that the software reported here isn't just a clone of something else or a minor add-on to something else or a port of something else or yet another implementation of a widely recognized concept. ... Software reported on sweetcode should surprise you in some interesting way. "I didn't know you could do that" or "I never thought about that problem that way" or "What a strange way to do things".

It also has a RSS feed.

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Tuesday 2002-04-23 Software

ISO 8601 International Standard Date and Time Notation

Synopsis: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
An abridged version: International Standard Date and Time Notation by Markus Kuhn
An unabridged version: ISO 8601 standard (in PDF)

Antville has a date printing option of YYYY.MM.DD, hh:ss format - short notesshould switch to this format soon.

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