rawr!

Joss Whedon has created a new tv show type thing, a musical blog, it has three episodes

http://www.drhorrible.com/

its pure awesome go watch now gogogogogogogogogo

Boo! ;o did I scare you?

Yes, dt is still alive =p and hes on holidays (though it doesn't feel like them ;<)

I was going to write something important but.... *shrugs*


SHOWER TIME!

*me runs away to get clean

Rawr dt isn't happy.

Yes, this is about the evil browser IE.

Microsoft's latest dodgyness with IE is introducing a new meta tag (or http header) to specify the rendering engine to use

Now the list of dodgyness
[list]
[*] It promotes unstandardness
[*] This is what the doctype is for, to choose quirks mode, standards etc
[*] Imagine if this was implemented back in IE2, IE would then include the engines for IE2-8, which is insane... imagine how hard it would be maintaining all these engines.
[*] Why update anything, just set your rendering engine to IE2 and forget about your website. (oh and forget about other better browsers) yay for killing progress
[*] This will kill new browsers (in the long term), because they not only have to implement the current standards, but the behavior of every older rendering engine to have web compatibility.
[*] IE8 won't support Acid2 on release, because the Acid2 site doesn't choose a rendering engine :---o
[*] embedded content, what happens if a widget is designed for the latest IE/Firefox/Opera, and then the host webpage is turned onto IE3 computability?, this just means developers will have to support rendering engines way past their time
[/list]


Links to blog posts which explain this issue way better than me
http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2008/01/22/meta-stupidity/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0279.html
http://ventnorsblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/meta-better.html
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/doron/archives/2008/01/whats_up_doctype.html


edit:

pft list bbcode broken

*me will fix later...

New dt blog feature editing comments without being a registered member

=p though... its not like anyone comments here anyway.... o;

So its another year another year of nothingness and uni : <

dt is currently working on big things though....

Happy New Year crazy internet people

<random>
I've decided if i ever have a daughter her name will be Arianwen because its an awesome name
</random>

This is a tutorial on Script version checking and updating
tutorial by -dt- (Matt Labrum)


So you've made a script, and you want to make sure your users have the most current version of your script.
Well you've come to the right place. This tutorial is about exactly that!

Now I'm going to assume a few things
1) you're not a complete noob
2) you're not segosa
3) you have a script (If you don't just create a new one)
4) the script must have a ScriptInfo.xml file
5) somewhere online where you can upload files

Now that thats out of the way, we can get to the fun part

A few reference documents for later:
XMLHttpRequest - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535874.aspx
XMLDomDocument - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms757878.aspx


Now open up your ScriptInfo.xml file it should look something like the one shown below


Code:

<ScriptInfo xmlns="urn:msgplus:scripts" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="urn:msgplus:scripts PlusScripts.xsd">
	<Information>
		<Name>updateExample</Name>
		<Description>This script is an example script to test update checking</Description>
		<AboutUrl>http://blog.thedt.net</AboutUrl>
		<Version>1.00</Version>
	</Information>
</ScriptInfo>

Click Read More to continue reading

The silence on IE8 scares me. At the moment its hell, pure hell trying to get javascript to work between IE and firefox/opera/other standard based browsers ;o. Microsoft has pretty much said screw you javascript developers by refusing to add any new javascript features to IE.
AFAIK the only real javascript language change they made was making the XMLHttpRequest a global object instead of having to use

Code:

new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');

you can now do

Code:

new XMLHttpRequest();

*claps for the IE team*

Microsoft had a chance to implement DOM3 events in IE7 but of course they are silly and don't want to conform to the standards .

Someone really needs to slap Microsoft, the IE team and the jscript team in the face and tell them to stop holding back new javascript features and help improve the web, instead of killing it

now back to IE8 what the hell are they doing with it, have they given up?, are they stalling? or are they creating the most awesome browser ever? (aka dump IE and start over ;o)

Microsoft _needs_ dump IE and do something extreme like buying opera.

Or dump IE and package firefox with windows, though I really can't see that happening

now you might be saying "but what about those crazy intranet applications which only work on IE", my answer to that is those crazy people should just keep using an old version of IE.

</rant>

Well I'm back in the blogging world, using "dtblog" a very nice blogging system that Ive created

dtblog > jalife

Though, I do still have lots of work to do on it

Main items on my todo list:
- rss feeds done
- ajaxy search
- remember comment author details
- ping technorati when i post new items
- use the technorati api to see what blogs have linked to me ;o
- add links to other blogs

anything else you would like to see on this blog?


edit:
Pictures of the edit and delete screens

Delete:


Edit: