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Stupid Dialog Box

(This blog entry is contributed by WeiqiGao.com correspondent Dale Wilson. —Ed.)

Blogger won't let me post images without jumping through hoops, but I thought you might appreciate this one for your "stupid dialog boxes" series:

The following message appears when you try to log off while running the Adobe Reader 7.0 plug-in.

Java 7 To Gain Native XML Data Support

Propogating a bit of Sun press hit:

InfoWorld: A key feature being considered for Dolphin is native XML data support.

I reported on a similar feature called E4X in the Rhino implementation of JavaScript 226 days ago.

While adding native XML support, it would also be nice to add native regular expression support (so that I don't have to escape all those backslashes when I write a regular expression in Java code.)