Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Sunday 30 January 2005

Office 2003 XML schemas released

According to Forevergeek, Microsoft release the XML schemas for Office 2003 XML support. But don't expect this documentation to be free. They apparently claim patents on this, which means, whatever they are saying today, they reserve the right to sue you for patent infringement later. I seriously don't trust them, and the past have showed that this is a good idea.

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Tuesday 18 January 2005

Spreading the FUD

OSNews.com is once again spreading FUD. They post posted this "Free Software isn't free in reality" news, that points to an LXer article, but forgot to talk about Paul Ferris' editorial posted in response to the aforementionned article, and linked from it.

Looks like OSNews is in need of decent writers.

Saturday 8 January 2005

Is ASP .Net a good idea for browser compatibility ?

Apparently, ASP .Net is designed to make non MS-IE browser clumsy by sending a stripped off version of HTML code. If you are really stuck to ASP .Net for some reason, there is a workaround. Otherwise, I recommend to not use it, and use more open systems, like PHP, mod_perl, etc., that don't vary the output based on the browser.