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Gmail Gives Me Choices: Ajax, POP3, and IMAP
Continuing with the "Give me the choice!" theme from 6 days ago, I am happy to discover that Gmail can be used with regular email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird or Windows Live Mail. That Gmail supports POP3 and IMAP may be old news for some of you. ...
Jan 8, 2008
9:30:08 AM
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Given A Choice Between A Web UI And A RIA UI, ...
... I would always choose (as a user) the RIA! Up until a couple of days ago, that was a theoretical assumption. Then something happened that validated my assumption. It's not from Google or Amazon or eBay. It's from my ISP, the one that was bought by ...
Jan 2, 2008
9:18:46 AM
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Safari on Windows Feedback: Fonts Dialog
Dear Apple, I tried out Safari on Windows and have encountered a problem with the fonts used to display Simplified Chinese web pages. They look awful in Safari on Windows. Here's a side-by-side comparison. Obviously, Safari on Windows is not using the ...
Jun 12, 2007
8:18:00 AM
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Apple's Safari On Windows
Brian walked in the office a moment ago, all disappointed. The keynote that Steve Jobs gave at the WWDC did not contain enough new stuff to satisfy him. However, Brian did mention the availability of Safari for Windows, which I downloaded immediately. ...
Jun 11, 2007
4:04:01 PM
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Silverlight DOA On Mac OS X
May 3, 2007
9:14:11 AM
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Flex 3 SDK and Silverlight: Is Java Applet An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Twelve years after the original Java applet in the browser announcement, the march to a richer GUI runtime in the browser seems to be back on. On the heels of Adobe announcing the plan to open source its Flex 3 SDK, Microsoft entered the race with an ...
May 1, 2007
1:19:39 PM
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Why Hasn't XUL Taken Off?
There is an interesting write up over there on InfoQ about Mozilla's XUL: Jonathan Allen: Last week we ran a short piece on the future of rich client frameworks. At the time we over-looked XUL as a proprietary language for Mozilla add-ons. It seems that ...
Apr 9, 2007
11:30:04 PM
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He's Been Thinking In Java, Now He's Thinking In Flex
I read Bruce Eckel's books and blogs. I usually agree with what he says. So naturally I read Bruce's latest blog article Hybridizing Java seriously. What I didn't realize was that Bruce was also working as a spokesman for Adobe in its Flex 2 ...
Feb 17, 2007
5:26:02 PM
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Don't Let Programmers Do User Interfaces
I ordered a new laptop at the Office Depot online store 10 days ago. I have been tracking the progress of the order through their website. There is something that just seems odd with the page: What's up with the second item? It does have a valid ...
Jul 18, 2006
8:39:15 AM
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How To Turn A Yes/No Question Into A Four Way Choice
Jun 20, 2006
12:00:32 PM
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Direct Manipulation, Emerging Behavior, Untestable Qualities, ...
Tonight's presentation at the St. Louis JUG is by Kyle Cordes, principal of Oasis Digital, and his title is Direct Manipulation User Interfaces with Java Swing. This is once again one of those talks that you have to attend to appreciate its content. ...
Sep 9, 2005
1:01:51 AM
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The Users Just Don't Care
We software programmers are a curious bunch. We subconciously project our beliefs and values onto the our users. "Our users love Java applications, because it is portable to multiple platforms." we thought. Yet what applications do people use most ...
Aug 18, 2003
7:52:58 AM