matt.griffith

Button b = <Button>
        <Text>Click Me</Text>
    </Button>;

creates an instance of the standard Button class and sets its Text field to the string "Click Me".

That stopped me dead in my tracks. You should read this now. Thanks for the link Jeff.

Basic functions of HTML doctitles:

Search engine results display

Search engine results weighting

Bookmark display

[Jon Udell]

The very first change I made to BlogX was to fix the titles on the permalink page. I'm still waiting for the solution to many other BlogX problems though.

For heavy authoring and graphics and so on, you need a native application. But a huge majority of business data processing is you interacting with a database off on a server somewhere, and as far as I can see, a Web Browser is still the best way to do that. WinForms? Pshaw! [Tim Bray]

Since Tim spends 8 hours a day doing business data processing he should know. Sorry, there are many things that a browser does best but that is not one of them.

If the browser is the best environment for data processing and if users prefer the browser why aren't Quicken, Money, TurboTax, and other consumer data processing applications browser based? Sure they borrow heavily from the browser - they have links and back buttons and flow layout - but when it comes time to do the actual data processing they all have features that are impossible to achieve in the browser. Heavy data processing is no different then heavy authoring and graphics.

I have a new RSS feed that supports ETag. The old feed is still active so if you don't care about wasting bandwidth feel free to continue using it. I won't move it again I promise ;-)

Note: The new feed doesn't support Last-Modified yet because I wasn't in the mood to fight RFC 822 dates.

Bill Kearney says aggregators should use Open Content Syndication (OCS) to store their subscriptions. I was aware of OCS because that is NewzCrawler's default format and I had to deal with it when I migrated from NewzCrawler a few months ago.

Why didn't I mention OCS? Partly because it seems tailored more for content producers than content consumers, but mostly because it makes heavy use of the http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# namespace. Yes I know that isn't a good reason to ignore it but there you go. I doubt I'm the only one that looked at <rdf:RDF> and thought "no thanks I've got better things to do with my time".

I'm not dismissing OCS mind you. I'm just trying to understand how the cost of RDF complexity is justified for OCS.

PerfectXML.com now has a page where you can read RSS feeds/blogs - a simple Web-based interface to read RSS feeds. Team PerfectXML will be adding some features (such as adding blog entries to favorites, searching, and other customizations), till then enjoy the RSSConnect at http://www.PerfectXML.com/RSSConnect [sellsbrothers.com]

It looks great. I'd love to be able to use something like that for reading my news remotely. Of course I'd still want to use Luke Hutteman's excellent SharpReader when I'm at my primary machine(s). If they both supported a common subscription format and a common API for managing the subscriptions I'd be able to do that.

I wonder if RSSConnect uses a caching proxy or if it downloads the RSS every time someone requests a feed.

P.S. I'm in the process of updating my RSS feed so it supports ETag and Last-Modified properly. It doesn't look like it is possible to do it from an ASMX but I may be missing something simple.

Looks like we're locked in the trunk this time. [Simon Fell]