26 Mar 2006

HTML/CSS: Cutting Corners with CSS

Here's a neat way to show rounded corner using CSS - something i've always wanted to do. The best part is they are anti-aliased, use no javascript and completely browser-friendly - exactly how web pages should be.

The author calls them "Spiffy corners".

25 Mar 2006

Vim 7 Beta Announced and Vim author moves to Google.

I a recent post on the Vim-announce list , Bram Moolenaar - the author of Vim announced two important things:

a) The beta release of Vim - v7.0b (see here).
b) Having accepted an offer to work for Google in Zurich (Good luck Bram!).

For us Vim fans, here's whats new:
  • Spell checking support for about 50 languages
  • Intelligent completion: Omni completion
  • Tab pages, each containing multiple windows
  • Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again
  • Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python)
  • Vim script profiling
  • Improved Unicode support
  • Highlighting of matching parens, cursor line and cursor column
  • Translated manual pages for French
See Brams post here.

16 Mar 2006

2 Mar 2006

Microsoft IE users will not be able to directly interace with Controls.

In response to a patent battle, Microsoft has releases an update to its browser so that it will no longer be able to directly interact with controls loaded via APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements. See Article "Microsoft updates IE after patent spat". Microsoft has announced this here.