Tuesday, November 04, 1997

Bill McKibben in Salon: {string (dweb.home.extratext.gandhi)}.

News.com is starting to ask the tough questions about Java. Yaaaay!

Steve Harley, harley@visi.com, says consistent UIs are a good thing. I agree! The News.com article asked what makes the Lotus announcement different from the previous alliances announced to build a decent UI library into Java. My two cents: People write software, not alliances.

Hunter S. Thompson: Doomed love at the taco stand.

Alternate Scripting News header from jjones@synergos.com.

CNET's Dan Shafer looks at the server market. How many Mac OS servers are out there? Doesn't it matter how they move forward?

Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi talks about browser market share.

Here's a July CNN interview with Mehdi; and a USA Today report from August 1996 that put MSIE's share at between 5 and 10 percent.

We're moving fast on fixing the scripts in Frontier's object database to be cross-platform. An updated package of 5.0 objects was uploaded last night, with change notes.

Info-Zip -- free, portable versions of the Zip and UnZip compressor-archiver utilities that are compatible with the DOS-based PKZIP.

Jim Correia came up with a short script that works without crashing with ZipIt 1.3.8. We're cookin with gas now!