TreeGarden

I had some troubles displaying correctly web pages in IE: it was scaling fonts and stretching images on every page. The solution is in the MSDN pages:

Remove the

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
 Software
   Microsoft
     Internet Explorer
       Main
         UseHR= dword:00000001

Internet Explorer sucks anyway ...

The short answer is because IE is not able to display this site correctly.

The brand new Browse Happy web site will give you the long answer, explaining why Alan, Chris, David, Mike and the others have switched to a better browser. You will note that no women was asked why she had switched, and that all switchers but one have switched to firefox. Wondering why ?

Just try some of its extensions, like the web developper tools, or the mouse gestures, and you will understand quickly ...

Here it comes !

MSN ( Microsoft Messenging System ) is now available on a web interface. It looks all like the software client, you can talk to your favorite friends, work associates etc ... via a simple web interface.

What's the great deal ?

1. You dont install any client
2. MultiPlatform
3. Proxies let it work :) As it is a webpage, proxies don't filter it !

The point 3 is really the one that I like, where I work, I can't use anything on internet, but webbrowsers. ( No tunnelling, no protocol except HTTP, only port 80 )

And It WORKS ! I don't know if this will last long, and free, because it's a beta version.

TCL is really a powerfull language. Very simple once you have understood that it just plays with strings and lists.

But when it comes to Object Oriented pardigms, it is definively ugly. Of course, it is not made for such a treatment. But who said I had the choice ?

What I like very much with OO languages, is that you can read well written code as if you were reading english, if you choose carefully your names, you quickly understand what's going on. Appending something to a list in OO is as simple as mylist.append(obj). In tcl, lappend mylist $obj (note the absence of $ on the list, you pass the list name in parameter, and not it contents). Quite similar, but the order is different. The first word you read in OO is the modified object, in tcl the first word is the action.

Oh well. This post just to say I prefer to read code written in a OO language.