« November 2003 | Main | January 2004 »
December 30, 2003
Extension Auto Updater?
Has anyone written an updated for an XPInstalled extension? I can't access LXR to find the interface for downloading a file of the net, but it should be doable: check versions (say an XML file, using xmlhttpequest), and the XML file would contain the location of an aupdated jar file, which would be copied to the chrome/ dir, thus overwritting the existing one.
Only issue would be that you can have 2 installs - profile and program directory.
Posted by doron at 9:13 AM
December 16, 2003
Internet Explorer WinXP SP2 changes
An interesting article listing several changes in IE for WINXP SP 2.
"Internet Explorer has been modified to not turn off the status bar for any windows. The status bar is always visible for all Internet Explorer windows." Does this affect modal windows too? This has the potential of affect quite a few web applications, and is mainly done for security so people know its a browser window (think of those popups that look like windows dialogs).
We have a pref/preference option for this, we might have to think about doing this too.
Posted by doron at 1:45 PM | Comments (10)
December 14, 2003
Interesting XAML Article
MSDN has an interesting article on XAML.
It shows the vector-based nature of it - both the SVG-like tags and the fact that you can do weird stuff with their normal widgets like skew (via rotate transforms) them.
Oh, and rounded button support!
XAML seems to be embracing the whole vector-based UI idea, which is cool.
Posted by doron at 12:53 PM
December 12, 2003
More IE/Longhorn
OSNews has some screenshots of the IE in longhorn - including the popup blocker, add-ons (seems to include plugin, which makes sense) and more.
Posted by doron at 12:53 PM
December 10, 2003
Microsoft owns Opening a Browser with no UI
CNet has the article. So Microsoft now owns opening a browser (windows only it seems) without UI.
Posted by doron at 11:17 AM