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WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- A letter sent to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., has tested positive for ricin, U.S. Capitol police said.
Sen. Mary Landrieu. D-La., said Capitol Police intercepted a letter at an off-site screening center Tuesday and later advised senators none of their offices were in danger, The Hill reported.
Government officials said they haven't linked the letter with Monday's terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon in which two bombs exploded at the finish line, killing three people and injured more than 170.
"There was a letter sent to a member that had gone through our processing facility -- not on-site here, but in the area -- and it was identified as containing ricin, which is a dangerous substance," Landrieu said after senators were briefed on Boston Marathon investigation.
Police said they didn't think anyone in the Capitol complex was in danger, Landrieu said.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he was unaware of any other dangerous letters.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said police have a suspect, who has been known to write letters to congressional members, The Hill said.
The off-site mail facility will be closed for the next few days so the FBI and Capitol Police can investigate and conduct more tests, Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance W. Gainer said in a statement.
Gainer said the letter had a Memphis postmark but no return address.
Wicker's office referred all calls to police.
Ricin, which occurs naturally in castor beans, is highly toxic when inhaled, ingested or injected.
In 2001, several letters containing anthrax were mailed to senators in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. After the 2001 anthrax attacks, all mail sent to the U.S. Capitol went through testing at a screening facility in Capitol Heights, Md.

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During the 2007 holiday season, there was another small, white and cheap tech device that became a hard-to-find bestseller: the ultra-portable Eee PC notebook by ASUS. (It also comes in black and three other colors, but the white model appears to be the most popular.) Despite looking like a toy, the Eee PC is a fully capable computer primarily meant for wireless Internet use. It runs Linux and includes Firefox and OpenOffice.
The Eee PC has appealed to a large segment of mobile computerists due to its combination of size, features and affordability. The lowest price model retails for US$299. And, to those who are keen for disassembling gadgets, its potential for being easily hacked and modified has been the biggest selling point.
Soon after its release, an online scene quickly emerged around the Eee PC. The enthusiasm of this community is in large part centered on the hackability of the gadget. "It's huge. I have never seen anything as big," describes an individual who prefers to be referred to by the initials "JKK," and who has worked professionally in hardware design for mobile computing devices. He became renowned for developing a touch panel and an internal 3G mod for the Eee PC.
When someone in the community successfully creates a new mod, they share information and how-to's about their work with other Eee PC users. "I'd describe the present status of the scene as explosive," says John Addison, who has modded his Eee PC and is an active participant in the mod scene for the tiny notebook. "There is hardly a week that goes by without a great new mod, hack or idea."
On the EeeUser.com forum, non-technical Eee fans mingle with extremely technically knowledgeable users like JKK. There are step-by-step written tutorials and videos showing amateurs how to add features, like more internal storage space or Bluetooth to their Eee PCs.
"The beauty of the Eee PC is that you don't need a technical background to enjoy it," says Anthony Lusby, creator of the EeeUser.com site. "Ultimately, each mod breeds opportunity for further future mods down the road, along with creating a more solid community feel."
Typically, the first "mod" most Eee PC owners perform is changing out its operating system. The Eee PC OS is built upon the Xandros distribution, and features a very simplified interface. It was specially designed to be used by people who are totally unfamiliar with Linux and to maximize the system's limited capabilities. Although most in the Eee mod scene agree the included operating system is a good match for the intended audience of the Eee PC, they have figured out ways to install other Linux distros. (ASUS also provides Windows drivers for installing Windows XP on the device.)
"I think ASUS made a solid decision in using Linux," says Lusby. "That said, I think they could have done a better job in making it easier to install and properly use other various Linux distributions with the Eee PC without having to seek help, for instance, in finding out how to get the wireless card properly working."


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Director Basil Coleman, renowned for his collaborations with Benjamin Britten, died last week.
Basil produced the world premieres of Billy Budd and Gloriana at Covent Garden in 1951 and 1953 respectively. Away from opera, he directed for the theatrical stage as well as for television, including the BBC's series adaptation of Anna Karenina in the late 1970s.
Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
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TO mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War the lights will be going out in Leigh.
The borough is being asked to join in with national events to commemorate 100 years since Britain declared war on Germany by switching off their lights between 10pm and 11pm today, Monday.
It was 11pm on August 4 1914 when war was declared shortly after the foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey stated: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
Church services willl be held in Leigh and Wigan parish churches at 9.45pm today, Monday, followed by candle-lit vigils at the towns' cenotaphs from 10.45pm.
Leader of Wigan Council, Lord Peter Smith, said: "These will be moments of poignancy and reflection as we mark the start of that terrible conflict and remember the impact it had and the sacrifice of so many people.
"We've planned a host of events this year and for the next four years to remember the war and this will be a truly moving start.
"I would encourage people to attend the church services in Leigh or Wigan and the candle-lit vigils at the cenotaphs in the towns.
"They will be solemn occasions to commemorate a dark moment in history."


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On this first day of spring, I invite you to attend our first round of spring concerts and events!
- This Saturday, March 22nd, at 3:00 pm, will feature our Academy String Orchestra (ASTRO) and Lawrence Adult Music Programs (LAMP) Orchestra in a concert at the Chapel. Tickets are $8 and are available online or at the Box Office on the day of the concert. For youth interested in joining ASTRO, auditions take place on Sunday, April 27th. Adults interested in joining, or learning more about, the LAMP Orchestra next fall should fill out an online interest form.
- This Saturday, March 22nd, at 7:00 pm, we will feature our Academy Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble in a concert at the Chapel. Tickets are $8 and are available online or at the Box Office on the day of the concert. For those interested in joining Wind Ensemble, auditions are being scheduled right now; contact the office immediately if you don't want to miss out! Symphonic Band is open to students with one year or more of experience on a wind or percussion instrument; no audition is required.
- Next Saturday, March 29th, at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm, our Girl Choirs will feature "A Sampler in Song," featuring sets of music that are stitched together with ideas inspired by quilt blocks. Please join us to hear seven choirs and see a variety of beautiful, hand-made quilts on display. Tickets are $8 for students/seniors and $12/adults; they are available online or at the Box Office the day of the concert. Girl choir auditions will take place in April; interested girls new to the program are encouraged to register for an audition as soon as possible.
- Next Saturday, March 29th, at approximately 8:30 pm, we will draw the winning tickets for this year's raffle! The drawing will take place at the conclusion of the 7:00 pm girl choir concert and will be webcast live. Listen for your name – perhaps you will be the winner of a $1,000 vacation voucher, $700 Academy of Music tuition credit, $250 Express gasoline card, or 2 tickets to see the Milwaukee Brewers! If you haven't purchased your ticket, contact the Academy office or purchase one from your favorite Academy student! Each ticket is only $5. We are grateful to Appleton Group Wealth Management, U.S. Venture, Inc., Burkhalter Travel, and the Milwaukee Brewers for sponsoring the raffle.
- The Boldt Challenge, wherein donations of $100 or more will be matched, up to $5,000, is underway for one more week! If you have not yet had the opportunity to make a donation to the Academy's tutti! fund, which supports tuition assistance, teacher development, and program costs, please do so today. The deadline for the Boldt Challenge is 4:00 pm Friday, March 28th.
- If you are enrolled in private lessons, please be sure to double-check with your teacher in regard to his or her spring break schedule. The Academy offices will have reduced hours the week of March 31st and will be closed all day on Wednesday, April 2nd.
- If you are interested in what our alumni are up to, you have the opportunity to see a few of them in performance with the Luther College Symphony Orchestra this Saturday at 7 pm at Appleton North High School. A freewill donation will be collected.
Enjoy this springtime concert season,
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IE7 Conditional CommentsNovember 03, 2005
In mid October, the IE Blog urged developers to stop using CSS hacks to workaround IE's problems, and start relying on Microsoft's proprietary conditional comments. I was mostly fine with the new syntax, and it seemed practical enough considering that IE7 is looking to address most of the reasons you'd hack in the first place.
But in the comments it became clear that some of you have discovered non-trivial problems in working with conditional comments — for instance, they don't work in a one-PC, multiple-IE testing environment, and XSL doesn't peacefully co-exist with them. So when I heard certain WaSP members would be meeting with the IE team, I compiled a few direct questions for them to pose. Without further commentary of my own, here are replies from Chris Wilson and Brian Goldfarb of Microsoft, as transcribed by Molly Holzschlag.
- How do you propose we test sites relying on conditional comments across multiple versions of IE on a single PC? The current method we have of installing multiple versions of IE does not work with conditional comments.
Chris Wilson replies:
"This is a tough one. Best way of testing IE with multiple installs is using Virtual PC. There is a way on Windows itself, but IE installs its components into system directories. You can cheat the system - add the DLLs in a separate directory named
.localrather than going to the windows system. However, this is not actually replacing all of IE, it doesn't maintain a separate set of registry info, and you might end up pulling that information from the new install.
With VPC, you install multiple versions of Windows installs as you have disk space. It's basically best way to do testing on one machine, have a massive machine run VPC with multiple windows installs … Need a lot of disk space, and may find some oddities because it's running as a separate virtual machine.
I've done it, used it, but am not an expert."
- Why not implement conditional comments in CSS syntax, so we can move our filtering into external files and keep our markup clean?
Chris replies:
"I think it would be great if we provided a mechanism like conditional comments inside CSS. We've [Microsoft] thought about it, we're not going to do it in IE7 because we want to do it in a sane, rational way. You'll want conditional comments to be backward and forward compatible. Tough to design that into CSS so that it will actually work."
- How do you propose we use XSL to transform documents that use conditional comments?
Molly says that Chris would like more background about this. So a few solid examples/test cases where the conflict is clearly outlined would be handy right about now. A further question from Chris:
"Not sure what the input is in the initial comments. Are you concerned with input or output? And what are you trying to use the comments to switch?"
- Unrelated, but prompted by this discussion: why did it take years and someone outside of Microsoft to discover that it's possible to install multiple versions of IE? Can you confirm we will be able to continue using this method in IE7 and onwards?
Chris responds:
"It didn't take someone outside of MS to discover it. We knew about it a long time, we'd used it in development. We don't do that much anymore. Two big reasons we do not publicize this as a good idea First, unless you copy ALL the DLLs that IE uses, you don't necessarily know which version you're really going to. It kinda works, and if really all you want to do is load some HTML and see how it works, it'll work. If you use JavaScript or networking libraries, timing could get weird and so on.
The other reason is because we get in a lot of trouble in the support side if we tell people to do this - your computer breaks, the Web doesn't work, you call up your computer manufacturer, spend an hour on the phone with them before you tell them about the multiple installs, the tech's don't know what you're talking about, and it causes a customer service nightmare.
You have to know what you're doing, and back it out after testing. We are not to my knowledge disabling anything that would change this for IE7 currently, but can't guarantee it'll work on Vista."
Brian Goldfarb went onto say that they got really strong feedback that they shouldn't push people to do this because of the customer service problems. It's an unsupported process: "Non-supported scenario. This causes damage to support scenarios." It is therefore a practical business decision.
Big thanks to Chris and Brian for their answers, and to Molly for posing them.
(FYI: although I'm still a member of WaSP, consider me more as an Advisory Committee member these days. I'm not currently working with any of the various task forces, including the Microsoft TF.)
"The other reason is because we get in a lot of trouble in the support side if we tell people to do this…"
Funny, Apple has no trouble telling developers how to install multiple Safari/Webkit versions as separate apps.
Good questions, and I am really glad to see that they entertained them. Thanks for representing web developers in all of this guys.
Virtual PC? So in order to test in IE 5, 5.5, 6, and 7, we should have four VPC virtual machines? With, presumably, four fully licenced and not free extra copies of Windows installed in those VMs? Ouch.
Thats because Safari was designed up front to be a stand alone app, while IE was designed as a "essential" system component.
"But in the comments it became clear that some of you have discovered non-trivial problems in working with conditional comments — for instance, they don't work in a one-PC, multiple-IE testing environment"
It is possible to use standalone IE versions and test conditional comments. All it takes is a fairly trivial resgistry alteration. The site below explains how (it's covered about halfway down the page under the heading 'Repairing Conditional Comments'):
"… You'll want conditional comments to be backward and forward compatible. Tough to design that into CSS so that it will actually work."
what about:
/*[if IE lt 8]
[end if]*/
Very though indeed. :-)
I've implemented CC in CSS using serverside processing of my CSS (a la CSS-SSC), based on the agent-string.
Not entirely finished yet.
"How do you propose we use XSL to transform documents that use conditional comments?"
Chris' response to this is dissapointing. It suggests that they aren't testing these comments in an XSL environment at all.
You don't need test cases or examples any more solid than this: IE conditional comment syntax is not valid XML, and so cannot be used in XSLT output documents. (Wouldn't it be kind of pointless to put these in input documents?)
It would be nice to have a test version of IE, were you would have multiple versions of IE in one app. Just like multiple tabs, one for each version.
That would be like a dream…..
And will never happen.
While reading this I asked myself why I had no problems with multiple IE installations on a single machine and using conditional comments. Special styles for IE 5 worked, IE 5.5, IE 6 worked the way I intended.
Well, now I know how I´ve done it:
So I am able to target any of those broken browsers as a whole. In ie.css I am using several css hacks to give each IE < 7 the styles it needs.
Working this way seems to be a practicable way to use several IEs on one machine, individualize the styles and for being forwards compatible - even if IE7 does not support any hacks ;-)
Preview does not always show that what's been displayed after posting …
[if lt IE 7]
link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie.css" media="screen, projection" [endif]
You know what I intended.
Stuart: Who says you have to buy each of those windows versions? :: evil look :: - I mean hey, if Microsoft can't provide a reasonable testing alternative, then I surely don't feel guilty finding, erm, workarounds to have multiple win versions running under VPC. Not that I ever said any of this in public, of course. ;-)
Paul D: As Ken points out, IE is so tied to the OS that the multiple install scenario is nightmarish at best.
That said, and given the complexity of the issue, I entirely agree with Microsoft's decision to not promote multiple IE installs as to support it is very difficult. It's not just Microsoft that would be hit with the support questions, but every PC manufacturer out there. That causes a real problem, and I can see the business rationale behind the decision.
Andrew: I'm going to ask you to have some patience on that one. The question was not glossed over by Chris, rather, the way I presented it simply wasn't detailed enough. With more information about an actual scenario, Chris has promised to answer the question as best as he can. So that's where we left it, and that lack of clarity might well be down to me, not Chris.
It's not impossible to use conditional comments in XSL, at least for simple cases like the following. It just looks a little ugly, that's all.
<xsl:comment><![CDATA[[if IE 5.0]><link rel="stylesheet" href="IE50.css" type="text/css"/><![endif]]]></xsl:comment>
I'm sorry, but all the answers they gave for all these questions, was: "we don't know." (and we dont care). When I read this, I just realize, MS+IE doesn't give a flying f*** about us.
Why can't they just let IE die? Replace the engine with Gecko? Stop inventing "great" new features into the DOM and HTML? It will make so many people happy. Doesn't MS won't everybody to be happy??? No. they want their own thing. I'm sorry, but for high level internet applications, Internet Explorer is the worst browser today. I know I'm grinding here, but I'm getting so angry listening to these answers.
I don't have a blog. I don't have time. I don't have a community of people arriving everyday and shamelessly drool over every word I say. On the contrary, there are so many powerful blogs out there, that get hit thousands of times a day.
I would think THIS community will have more power than Microsoft, honestly, I do think so. But what? This community is no more than a (huge) herd of nerds. Can we actually change the world of OUR internet or just keep on photoshopping our slick pixel corners and keep on talking about every new gimmick that pops-up, or we can actually do something.
Every herd has it leaders, and people listen to them. Why not do something drastic and get the controls..
Sorry for my lame english.
Rafi, your sentiments are not unshared. But if the U.S. Department of Justice can't get Microsoft to change its practices (their lawsuit disappeared quietly after George W. Bush entered the scene) how on earth can a group of standardistas do it? We don't have any of the resources the US government has, and the US government has tried repeatedly to go up against MS and historically loses, time and again.
It's all about money, honey. Darn shame, darn true.
I recently found an article about XSL and CC.
here it is
maybe its useful to anyone
CC *are* valid xml since they are just comments.
Seems like they are trying to make IE better, however the IE team and MS seem to be stuck with their backs to the wall since they can't/won't make IE a standalone app like all other browsers. By developing IE as an integrated app into the system there will never be a good way for us developers to test multiple versions of the browser, and until they fully support CSS and W3C standards I'm afraid conditional comments will be something we'll need to live with for a long time ahead.
Like others here I have little confidence after reading Chris' answers in IE7's ability to make our lives easier. We all want a standards compliant browser from MS, but considering the info on their Blog and this brief interview I don't see that goal within our grasp with this release.
Anyone know if a public Beta is in the works?
While multiple IEs definitely isn't an optimal scenario, I've used it for a long time testing interface code and it has worked like a charm. Just like rich mentioned in comment no 5, it's an easy operation to get it to work.
Only thing I don't know about is using XSLT (I believe you mean XSLT when you use the broader term XSL?). However, I use XSLT transformations almost daily in my work, but never whole pages, only parts of them. However, Nick Fitz is a smart guy, so I feel confident that his suggestion will hold.
> Why can't they just let IE die? Replace the engine with Gecko? Stop inventing "great" new features into the DOM and HTML?
Because Microsoft (and specifically IE) is the 800-pound gorilla in web browsing.
I, for one, am glad to hear these discussions are at least taking place. Sure we'd all love conditionals built directly into the CSS syntax – and would love not to have to license several different versions of Windows for VPC (what kind of a solution is VPC anyway?!) – but at least we're gaining ground.
I'd rather move slowly than not move at all.
> Sure we'd all love conditionals built directly into the CSS syntax
Wrong. Surely We'd all love to have correct implementation of XHTML/CSS built in IE…
I still don't understand why there is this big panic about CSS hacks causing havoc upon IE7's release.
As I wrote at:
"Why is it harmful to use * html ? As others have pointed out above, this should only be seen by IE5/6, whereas 7 will behave correctly. So surely we should be *encouraged* to use that as a means to move towards compliance."
In other words, if people are (correctly) using documented hacks to work around documented IE bugs (rather than to hide bits of styles from IE arbitrarily) then hiding these behind * html which IE7 doesn't understand, will mean that the site works fine in IE7 because the only thing it will see is what the likes of Firefox and other standards browsers see: only what is actually needed for the site.
"I'd rather move slowly than not move at all."
After four years of waiting, I'm with you. Rushing to implement a bunch of features that end up buggy and incomplete brings us two steps further, but one step back. I'd rather not spend another 4 years dealing with an IE7 equivalent of IE6's float bugs.
>> Sure we'd all love conditionals built directly into the CSS syntax
>Wrong. Surely We'd all love to have correct implementation of XHTML/CSS built in IE…
Thanks dusoft. Conditional comments are a nice quick fix, but I look forward to the day when we don't have to use them anymore.
Dave S : "I'd rather not spend another 4 years dealing with an IE7 equivalent of IE6's float bugs."
I have a bad feeling that something else will bug the rest of us after IE7 is released. As Molly has enlighten us on IE team developments, we know they are chained to MS business plans and strategies. Hence logically we all know IE7 will in some form be chained to Vista. I think IE7 will be a great improvement but it will never go far enough.
Dave, I think you need a new comments spam filter….
My personal feelings, I think it would be cool if someone could use some weird Javascript, or whatever, trickery and make Gecko or KHTML able to emulate IE's problems. It would allow us to test in our native environment; if you can emulate one version you can probably emulate more than one, so our problems would be solved. Granted it wouldn't be THAT simple, but it would (theoretically) work in my mind. Maybe I'm crazy, maybe I'm just wishful, but I think it could happen, and quite honestly I can see a few devoted open source people doing it more quickly than Microsoft thoroughly supporting anything like multiple IE versions…
Thanks for the post Dave and follow up. I was at the meeting and should note that it's impressive Molly got all that transribed. Lively, raucous, and we saw some very promising applications. Then got down to the business of asking hard questions
Conditional comments in CSS is an exceptionally bad idea and I'm glad they're not being implemented in IE7. I just hope they don't get implemented in IE8 or any other future version.
Using conditional comments promotes a form of browser sniffing and, while it is more reliable than checking the UA string, it's not something we should be encouraging along side standards compliant coding techniques.
Rather than encouraging browser vendors to legitimise hacks and encouraging authors to use them, we should encourage the vendors to fix their bugs and authors to accept graceful degradation as a result of those bugs until they are fixed.
Molly said:
> Who says you have to buy each of those windows versions?
> :: evil look :: - I mean hey, if Microsoft can't provide
> a reasonable testing alternative, then I surely don't
> feel guilty finding, erm, workarounds to have multiple
> win versions running under VPC. Not that I ever said
> any of this in public, of course. ;-)
See, I think that Microsoft demanding that is shooting themselves in the foot. In companies you are lobbied *all the time* about being fully licenced and whatnot. More to the point, the more MS say "to support our browsers, you'll need to pay loads of extra money", the less people will support their browsers, or the more they'll rip off code. Paradoxically, because I use free software, I'm more attuned to licence violation than I would be otherwise, I think!
With regards to not being able to test conditional comments on a machine with multiply IE installs.
Is it not an idea to test with the css filters we know work then transfer the revised code into css files linked with a conditional comments.
Interesting to read about XSL and conditional statements. What I'm currently doing is sniffing the browser serverside and wrapping the browser agent in an XML tag. I then just test the value and branch in the normal XSL way.
Is anyone else doing this?
Re: Installing multiple versions of Windows on Virtual Machines.
Um, I could be wrong (often am), but I think you only need ONE windows licence to install multiple copies of Windows on many VM's (so long as all the VM's are on the same physical machine).
The licence is tied to the physical hardware which is identical for each virtual machine.
@Adam Fellowes
The problem with CC and multiple IE's is *FIXED* by pie. A simple registry tweak will fix it.
like Rich says:
Unfortunately not everyone knows about it.
Re: The multiple VPC issue.
Practically, you CAN install multiple VPCs and run them simultaneously without licencing, because you don't need to activate them. You simply create a base install image, and work from there - that's how all us MSDN folk do it… Sure, if you're going to test over a prolonged period (ie more than a month or two) it could become a problem, but practically the setup works just fine.
Also, although this might be slightly off-topic, but I fully agree with not supporting multiple installs from MS's point-of-view. Anyone who's run a business selling software understands the nightmares technically-possible-but-quirky hacks can cause if they're officially endorsed. It's just plain business sense.
Slightly simpler than the CDATA example someone mentioned in an earlier comment for XSL, you can simply use something like this:
[if lt IE 7]><link href="/css/1/ie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><![endif]
I use this on a fairly large personal site without problem…
Sorry, looks like the comments stripped out an important bit. My previous comment's code snippet should read as follows:
<xsl:comment>[if lt IE 7]><link href="/css/1/ie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><![endif]</xsl:comment>
Dave writes:
"After four years of waiting, I'm with you. Rushing to implement a bunch of features that end up buggy and incomplete brings us two steps further, but one step back. I'd rather not spend another 4 years dealing with an IE7 equivalent of IE6's float bugs."
It is my opinion at this point that no matter what we do, how we advocate for change, we will for the entirety of our careers be battling for a level playing field in user agents. Let's imagine for a moment that IE7 came out of beta fully compliant (which we know it won't, but hey, this is a fantasy here) - there's going to be the Next Big Battle, which from the standards side is what to do with SVG. With XAML around, we'll once again be battling for standards compliance versus proprietary technology.
And how about Internationalization? I've called it the "sleeping giant" for many years, and it's just starting to wake up. When more companies want multilingual sites, whoo boy, the battle for better browser compliance in Internationalization is going to heat up big-time.
Take it off the desktop, it gets even worse. Anyone doing wireless development knows all too well that the browser woes we have today are nothing, nothing compared to the nightmarish tangle of user agents on PDAs and cellphones and so on.
I think we have to just be realistic here and learn to enjoy the ride. That doesn't mean give up advocacy for open standards (and Stuart, I agree with you - my preference will always be open technologies - but very obviously not everyone has the luxury of staying in open source / open standards development) but it does mean getting a little Zen (if you'll allow me a bad pun, Dave ;-)) on the whole frustration side of things.
I've long said the accomplished Web designer and Web developer is a "Control-Freak / Zen Master." Seek to control everything we can - which means learning an awful lot (more than I know, that's for sure) and when you reach the limits of control, let it go.
Otherwise, we'll lose the passion and the enjoyment of what we do. The difficulties have to be seen as challenges over which to triumph, but thinking that one day in our careers everything will settle down is a pipe dream.
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It is funny that when putting non valid CSS in comments they start validating. If I would take the ie.css out of the IE conditional comments (brain surgery) and validated that one in the jigsaw CSS browser. Errors would start raining after inserting the css into the validator. Conditional Comments only help to seperate IE hacks that might brake future versions of any browsers including IE. I even heard someone telling that it caused extra band-width? Really!
I second #c024229 on the answers being vague.
Not only vague, but the feeling I get is they are treating you for a fool. You ask technical questions, and get generic, "tech support" answers. I also get this feeling on the IE blog, like the community's questions are not interesting. They want to talk, and that's a *huge* step forward, but they should learn to listen.
I'ma' bit lost on the topic as I am not that advanced a css coder yet… but I just wanted to say; Damn Molly, by your responses here and some post I have read on your own site, I am surprised MS even let you in the building, might blow it up or something to get your swingline stapler back ;) lol. You go girl.
Some time ago i found some zipped folders to download where everything is inside to run several old versions of the internet explorer at the same time. The site i got it from isn't online anymore.
Anyway… I don't actually optimize for those old browsers since the websites look like crap whatever you do. It's like Netscape 4.0… Better disabling the stylesheet!
I'm not asking for anything too hard for the Microsoft IE team. Just fix the damn CSS problems and complete the CSS2 framework. Give us PNG support. Fix the javascript engine so it would not be so slow on heavy scripted pages, and START peaking at the W3C specifications for DOM and XML.
Standalone versions? Conditional commens in CSS?
I dont care about it. As long as they produce something that can justify their power and control over us, I'll be happy. I'll forget about IE6 and below, who cares? if everybody follows a simple extermination plan we'll throw the older versions to hell. Microsoft has the interest to LEAVE IE as an internal app in Windows because that's how they crushed Microsoft, with money and control. So why would they separate the two if nobody is threatning them except few angry nerds? :)
Molly - I'm sorry you say it's all about the money, because you know it isn't. "If you get the money, you get the power". Whoever said that didn't say "ONLY if you get the..". Ahh. I'm just frustrated that's all. As a spectator ONLY in the last few years on this scene I've seen radical people come up with radical awesome, but sadly, looking at it from a higher perspective, nothing has really changed.
Sorry for my English again.
Although I run XP Pro, here we have, yet another example, of why Microsoft has lost soooo many shares. =]
Way to go guys!
in Birmingham, AL
Whoever does not want to use Virtual PC (or other similar emulators) for a multi IE environment might still want to create a multi boot environment on an old PC. Three partitions with Windows 98, one for IE 5, one for IE 5.5, and one for IE 6 would be okay. Perhaps one for Windows XP SP2 with the improved IE 6.
(Of course, with Longwait^WVista and IE 7 you need a new partition, but you then certainly will need a new fast PC.)
You do not need another screen if you use VNC. The partioning thing and hiding the partitions from each other OS is not easy, but there are instructions on the Web. After a few hours of setup it works; for years in my case without need to change.
On the other hand: just write clean, standard conformant code (HTML and CSS). Do not care about browser bugs and stupid old IE too much. The browsers needs to get fixed, not your code. We cannot test everything with every browser on earth. We only can hold on to the published standards.
When it comes to mobile browsers, on phones or PDAs, as one poster here noted, we are lost with thousands of different devices and browsers. Just sticking to the standards is the only thing we can do.
"Some time ago i found some zipped folders to download where everything is inside to run several old versions of the internet explorer at the same time. The site i got it from isn't online anymore."
You can find them here:
@Mark: I am doing the same.
Molly Writes:
"I think we have to just be realistic here and learn to enjoy the ride."
Molly, thank you for your insight. I as well tend to get very negative and join the IE bashing team, but I agree. Sometime I feel people just let it get to them just a little too much. I know it's frustrating because it makes all our jobs so much harder, but in the end, it's just the way things are right now. So like you said, it doesn't mean give up, but don't let it get to us too much.
The real thing here is that MS no longer care about the browser, since they are about to "bypass" the web. Avalon (Windows Presentation Foundation now) is a very real threat to the "open" web. I doubt very much the endlessly downsized moz guys 'n gals have much to offer in the face of Avalon - and the shocking thing is No One Seems To Have Noticed!
Where I work at the moment, we design for pure W3C compliance, testing primarily with Mozilla, Firefox and Safari. Once the site is up and running without problems in those browsers we have a look in IE, and if it works it works.
I gave up on IE a long time ago, if they want to be a respected force in the browser market then they should start implementing things properly and stop all the [if lt IE 7] rubbish.
Get with the game Microsoft; follow a standard and stick with it, do you know how many billions of $ have been wasted trying to make all the websites in the world cross-browser friendly…it's time to have a "write once, browse anywhere" policy.
DavidT: well, I noticed.
Yes, back in 2003.
Perhaps the real shocker is that No One Seems To Have Cared.
After reading all the posts I can see the bigger picture of what is happening here. Microsoft is the Holy Deity and we are mere followers. They are trying to teach us patience, humility and loyalty among other virtues.
Their non-compliance with w3c (the devil - lol) is simple prayer practice. You know it is because all of you are on your knees wishing and hoping and waiting for compliance. The thing is while ever you are on your knees praying for compliance, you forget that you support their non-compliance by adjusting your attitude to accept the fact that your compliance for w3c needs attention and therefore you end up adopting non-compliance hacks to your css code.
Why should they change?? I doubt anybody at microsoft knows what it is they need to comply with. But why not put the headache back on them by providing microsoft contact details on your website if it does not display properly in ie 5,6,7. Waste microsoft's resources not yours. (lordy knows they can afford it) On every website you build make sure you have Firefox, Safari, Opera etc preferred icons with download links. Let the people know that IE SUX. (actually it would be more of a repetitive reminder) I could wag on forever….
Not to be facetious, I'd like to put forth a very straightforward solution to all this IE mess.
-Simply quit catering to IE, at all, in any fashion.
If it's more obviously common that IE is buggy, people will ditch it, as a popular movement.
Although it's not an easy path to follow, and would doubtlessly see much hardship in the beginning, my reasoning is this; the single most motivating situation to convince a viewer to switch to a better browser is for them to encounter a page they want to see, and see it displayed incorrectly, or not at all.
All it takes is that first time, and then a single download to Firefox or Opera, and it's done. Band-aid off. A very quick fix.
Once the average user sees that the web is broken when viewed through the eye of IE, the alternatives will stand out.
As for clients of web-dev contracts requiring extended compatibility, try to argue the point. Offer reduced dev costs. If arguing doesn't work, then go ahead and "IE hack" if it's a must. (Bread, then principles, natural order of course).
The point I'm trying to make is that IE may be the easy first choice, and that might put it at the front of the "popular browser que", but we don't need to let that cloud the truth of the situation; as with any technology, IE will only be used as long as it works well on the average. Tip the average, and down it will go. If people have to use an alternative, they will.
WE write the code. Always, the power to change this is always in the developers hands. Now that the platform is in transition (PC to web), expanding more to web-based services, this is the time to push it.
Now, I'm probably missing out on some big reason why this won't work, however, just an idea.
Eric, you've really got me scared with your XAML article.
While I am definitely in the boat of MS-haters and wished that we really could just forget about IE and code for standards, as B. Mason said, I know there's no way (currently) it could work in getting rid of IE.
Take for example my grandma: She has no idea what a browser even is, let alone that there are different browsers which would display a broken site properly. Even if I placed a link on my site for Firefox, she wouldn't know how to download and install it.
Maybe I could go download and install it for her, but what about the people who don't know those things, and don't have someone to do it for them? MS has so much more of a hold on the browser market than you give them credit for.
Please don't take me the wrong way, I would have windows thrown down (and unix or OSX to become the standard), but it's just really not going to happen anytime soon.
Sorry to throw a pessimistic view on the whole situation… :(
Paying extra for Virtual PC or Vmware is an expensive solution although technically perhaps the best one (Until we can get a Open Source Virtual machine to run Windows on Linux anyway) but is it really the way most people are going to do it? It seems like the comment was for 1 of 3 reasons;
Thats the company line
He was thinking in terms of companies where purchasing software to improve the end product is reasonable enough (and would poss be preffered so it can be supported)
or … well I'm not sure but its not a useful answer to the majority of us.
I've seen the Virtual Pc answer a lot lately especially with the IE7 Beta 2 not supporting side-by-side install :( and I was wondering about how this fitted with that seperation lawsuit "(their lawsuit disappeared quietly after George W. Bush entered the scene)" but I guess that explains it, but so much for "We are not to my knowledge disabling anything that would change this for IE7 currently"
Should be interesting ot see what IE7 has to offer and what set backs if any it has. But having to pay for something that is free elsewhere would be a major set back in my opinon!
I thought you may be interested to hear that a new
version of "Taming Your Multiple IE Standalones" is
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Congrats! You didnt kill anyone! - starts to bake cake -
lol. Great Chapter as always Crest!
Ahoy there me mates. Hope you haven't missed me too much. School brings inspiration and... *ahem*...
The light of a new day shone on Lawrence through the small window granted to him in his cell. His head shifted, then turned into the shadow. He slowly blinked, bringing himself out of the bliss and ignorance of dreams, and back to the pain of reality.
Reality burned.
First, the sunlight burned his eyes, the harsh glare making the world blurry for a moment. The cells of his chest burned at the realization that he no longer stood in free sunlight, but encountered a scratchy, hardwood surface that the Navy called a bed. His back was no longer whole, but broken strips of his skin and soul burned as the air invaded the red and swollen wounds. Blinking back into reality, his mind burned when he saw the cold stone wall instead of the wide, blue sea, reminding him that he was still trapped.
He didn't allow himself to move yet; if he did, it would just emphasize the pain he already felt. Instead, he let his mind wander through the past few days, despite the trauma they would bring to the forefront of his mind.
Remington had been enjoying his new toy far too much. The man was seemingly soulless. Every scream, every twitch, or any sign of pain Lawrence gave up he seemed to fed upon. His cold eyes would alight whenever he entered the jail, and Lawrence would know that his body and sanity would be tested again. The day before, he had been blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back and lead out of the cell, then forced to walk around on his own. More than that, though, they had set it up so he walked into swords and poles. Disoriented and confused, he had even fallen down a set of stairs, only to be forced back to his feet to the sound of more laughter. Randolph, however, seemed to be absent from the 'festivities.'
Lawrence had just decided to attempt to get up, but the creak of the jail door forced him to sit up instead. Down the stairs, boots clicked and echoed, with the addition of an extra, wooden thump. Lawrence knew exactly who his thoughts had called.
"I was wondering when you would return," he said loudly, and the slow walk paused. Lawrence attempted a grin, but with his pain, his mouth only leaned towards the left in a small grimace. "Have you enjoyed Remington's reports on me?"
The clunking resumed, and Randolph rounded the small spiral staircase. He still leaned on his crutch, but here was a slight difference; he no longer seemed to clutch it quite as tight or put as much weight on it. "To be honest, no," he said, stepping in front of the door. "There are better ways to get what I want form you, but Mr. Remington has some influence with higher-ups that I didn't feel like passing up." He took a set of keys from his pocket and began to unlock the gate that separated the both of them. "No, I have far more influential means."
Lawrence frowned deeper. "What are you doing?"
Randolph finished jimmying with the keys and swung the door open. "You and I are going on a little tour of the fort, Mr. Mcrage."
"What about your guards? Where are they to protect your life?" Lawrence stepped to the threshold of the jail's exit, but did not pass through it. "I could grab you and kill you right now, and nobody would be able to save you."
Randolph just smiled coldly, and the ice echoed in his eyes. "But you're smarter than that, Mr. Mcrage. If you killed me, there would be nowhere for you to run except into the unforgiving ocean – which, I'll tell you, is many hundred meters below us – or into the noose. You may as well slit your own throat if you were to do that." He stepped a little away from the cell door, as if inviting Lawrence out of it. "Besides, you said it yourself; that honor is saved for Katherine. Now, after you."
Lawrence slowly stepped out of the cell, both out of caution and the screams in his muscles. He stood in front of Randolph, waiting for him to move first, but with a flourish of his hand, he motioned Lawrence forward. With extreme hesitance, he rounded the steps and walked into the fort proper.
Despite the slivers of light he had been getting the past few days, the sun still blinded him. He put a hand up to block it, and was surprised to see a scrape on the back of it. It must have come from the fall yesterday. Was he really that far gone that he was beginning to lose feeling of the simplest things?
A tap on the back of his leg brought his attention back to Randolph. He looked a little impatient as he stepped forward in front of Lawrence. "Come along, Mr. Mcrage. I have many things to show you and little time in which to do it." He began walking across the second level they were standing on, above a small courtyard where Navy and EITC soldiers alike wandered. Lawrence turned to look at the other side, and saw with surprise the entire ocean laid out in front of him. A longing suddenly filled his heart for that freedom.
"Mr. Mcrage!" Randolph barked. Lawrence tore his gaze away from the blue waters, knowing if he didn't comply, things would only get worse.
"You would do well to remember how to listen to orders, Mr. Mcrage. It will help you greatly while you're involved in the service," Randolph sniffed.
"And you would do well to remember that I have already said no, Mr. Randolph," Lawrence replied as they began walking again.
"We'll see, Mr. Mcrage," Randolph murmured. He waved his hand across the scene before them. "This is the top of the fort. It mostly holds the jail and watchtowers, and occasional excess storage. We have to make sure we're not ambushed by pirates or the Spanish or anything else of the sort."
"Yes, and we all know how well that worked," Lawrence snarked. A crack sounded out as Randolph brought his crutch to Lawrence's head. He tilted dangerously to the edge of the fort, only to be pulled back by the man who had just hit him. Bright white stars turned in front of his eyes, and he rapidly blinked to try and rid his vision of them.
"You should be more careful with your balance, Mcrage," Randolph growled. "Now keep walking, and keep your insubordinate mouth shut!" Lawrence rose to his full height, rubbing the new bump on his temple and shooting a glare at his captor, but began walking alongside him nonetheless.
The two slowly made their way down the fort, Randolph spouting a monologue the entire time. He was ridiculously proud of 'his' fort, as was clear by his overblown voice. All it made Lawrence do was yawn. He cared more about scrubbing barnacles off a deck than how many soldiers could shoot from the bridge at once. It was only when they were past the bridge he was more attentive.
They had entered another section of the fort, one with multiple raised platforms and a small well a few men lurked around. Upon one of the platforms perched Remington, staring coldly at those that surrounded him. The sight of him renewed fire in Lawrence's veins. Randolph called his name, and Remington turned his head sharply. His rotten teeth were revealed in a grin when he spotted Lawrence. He bounded down the stairs of the platform with as much dignity he could muster.
"Are you in need of assistance, sir?" Remington asked, looking sinisterly at Lawrence. His brow furrowed more towards the nonverbal challenge. Remington only looked more pleased that he hadn't broken Lawrence yet.
"I do, actually," Randolph replied. "The both of you, follow me." He walked brusquely towards the well, and Lawrence wondered for a moment how odd it was to bring Remington along for a drink. Instead, Randolph turned to a small building next to it. He opened the door to walk in, and Remington gleefully shoved him through it.
As Lawrence ran into the wall on the other side of the door, something rang in his mind that this place was familiar. He peeled himself away from the stone to the jingle of his keys and the creak of an iron door. Slowly, he walked down another small set of curved stairs, cautious of what he would find.
There stood Luckie, her arm grasped by Randolph and looking exhausted. Her eyes, however, shone at the sight of Lawrence, even if the rest of her looked beaten.
"Mr. Mcrage, I would like to extend to you again the offer to join the Royal Navy," Randolph spoke.
Lawrence looked irritated by the question again. "I am only loyal to freedom," he replied. "That is something you are unable to offer me."
"Are you loyal to freedom, Mcrage, or to the woman who represents it for you?" Randolph argued, his voice raising. "You cling to the hope that she will appear in a puff of smoke and free you? You believe she is loyal to you in return?" He released a sarcastic laugh. "Yes, I once believed the same, and look where that got me!"
"You betrayed her!" Lawrence roared, and began charging at him, only to be struck down by Remington. That only slowed him for a moment. He leaped up again, and Remington tackled him with a punch to the chest that Lawrence tried to roll away from. The two tussled on the ground for a moment with grunts and cries of pain, only to have Randolph's voice rise above them both.
"I'd let Mr. Remington hold you back if I was you, Mcrage!" The red haze cleared enough from Lawrence's eyes for him to see Randolph, his crutch on the floor and standing behind Luckie with a knife to her throat. He stood quickly, preparing himself to try and help, but Randolph shuffled backwards and pressed the blade closer.
"Nah ah, there will be none of that," he said, as if this were a business dealing or he was speaking to a disobedient child, not threatening the life of another human being.
"So she told you it was all my fault, did she?" Randolph taunted. "She told you she was left helpless and alone in that tiny jail cell for no reason at all. Well she's a liar, and now it looks like she's gone on to do it professionally. But no, she wasn't innocent at all, Lawrence, not even back then. She was the one that broke our marriage vows. I suppose it's a good thing. She finally managed to get those Sunday school morals stuck in my brain." His head turned so that it was at Luckie's ear. "That all women are influenced by the snake!" he hissed.
He turned back to Lawrence, who was having his hands shackled in front of him by Remington. A crazed, ferocious grin had spread across his face. "You're not as cold blooded as most pirates, Mr. Mcrage. I can see this. Come, feel the sharpness of this blade." Remington pulled him forward, and Randolph dragged the dagger across Lawrence's shackled palms, making him gasp at the new blood being drawn. "You won't let her feel that in a place far more… sensitive." He ran the flat edge of the metal across Luckie's neck, making her shudder. His eyes turned back to Lawrence's. "You won't let her die. Now say yes to my offer."
Lawrence froze with terror and indecision. The cuts on his hands burned, like the sunlight had earlier, but he was far past feeling it. His thoughts raced from loyalty to life, and all the repercussions that could come from this moment, depending on what he chose. A soldier entered the jail, telling Randolph that the ship of new men had docked, but he screamed at the boy to leave. There was the scrape of boots moving quickly across the stone floor as the man scurried away. It all flitted at the edges of Lawrence's attention.
"I need an answer, Mr. Mcrage! I am not a patient man!" Randolph moved the dagger just a little across Luckie's neck, and a small bead of blood dropped from her skin onto the shining metal. The sight brought all of Lawrence's thoughts to a screeching halt.
"Yes." The word was a whisper, and Lawrence thought for a moment it wouldn't even be able to be heard. Then he realized that the jail was perfectly quiet, and all the noise that had been building up was in his own head.
Randolph smiled, all traces of proper and elegant gone from him. "Good man." He removed the dagger from Luckie's throat and shoved her back into the open cell. The door slammed on her, and Lawrence saw her crawl to a dark corner and curl up. Her eyes had lost their glow at his answer.
"Mr. Remington, take the new soldier to be fitted for a uniform." He approached Lawrence slowly and unlocked his shackles. "I'm sure you'll want this back, Mr. Mcrage. I'm sure you'll enjoy your life of service."
Remington grabbed Lawrence's arm and turned him roughly to go out of the jail, grumbling, most likely about his toy being taken away. When he entered the sun again, he looked down at the object that had been handed to him. The black sheath was pulled away to reveal his dagger, the one that had been taken from him upon his capture. Its beauty was tainted now; he couldn't bear to look at what he had given up. With his head bowed, he slipped it back into its cover and into his belt, walking with Remington to start a new era.
We'll see when a new chapter comes, shall we? Thank you for reviews (as sarcastic as they are, Ms. Goldeagle), despite my completely erratic posting style. I love you guys! Thanks for reading!
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Yay... new chapter! - shoots angry glare at Crest for not posting in ages -
YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY i have read all the chapters i missed and yay i was in some XD HUGS!!!!!!! glad ya still writing some haha HUGS!! haha
But anyways, I loved that chapter, as always.
Right now my only problem is the erratic posting style.Everything else is fantastic.
Who wants me to finish this?
I mean it's only been two...years.....ha ha ha
*raises hand*
I do!
Me me me!
Can't say I've kept up too well with this one, but I don't want it to sit in the dust, either!
I feel like you were a given
I guess it only took my bugging you to make you post Finish it!!
Okay, so here's the plan. I'm gonna try to write as much as I can in one go, and try to post as much of it as possible all at once before the site merges. If I don't, I'll give you all a place to go to finish up the story (and I may post all previous chapters there as well). As for now, I'm about 5 pages in writing, but the problem is, there's probably at least another 50 to go to end it. We'll see how this works out.
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There are several people trashing the convention collection on the doll boards. These are people who did not (could not?) attend. My suggestion to them is to move on to another hobby. Envy in any form is unattractive. End of rant.
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Since I don't have my own dolls to photograph yet, I am posting the official Integrity Toy's photos of the centerpiece and convention dolls here.
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