So mail is down at the office this morning. Which serious puts a crimp into what I can do.<\/p>\n
So I’ve been noticing that the Archives section of my blog template is generating an annoying Javascript error. <\/p>\n
So … I’ve fixed it. Woo-hoo. The old programming skills haven’t completely atrophied. Of course, since I actually created a separate archive directory (which is good practice, and which seems to be encouraged by the Blogger documentation), a lot of the relative references that the archiving processes use don’t work, so I’ve had to hardcode the blog URL into a whole bunch of the template code. Messy. Annoying.<\/p>\n
Of course, the really <\/i>annoying thing here is that, as of WinXP, Java will not be automatically available on new PCs (i.e., it is not part of the default XP installation). Micro$oft claims this is necessary due to their court settlement with Sun, which is, ah, a prevarication on their part. The goal is actually to make the C## scripting language (owned by M$, natch) the de facto <\/i>scripting standard on the web. Sincek, of course, if it isn’t owned by M$, it can’t be allowed to be a standard ….<\/p>\n
Which means that, eventually, either bits and pieces of my blog (and many, many web pages) will break, will need to be recoded in C##, and\/or will require that people download a Java VM (for XP-or-newer systems) or C## VM (for pre-XP\/non-M$ systems) (or both). <\/p>\n
Bad enough that M$ and Netscape “broke” the HTML standard. Bad enough that server-side scripting is still a crapshoot depending on what sort of host you have. Now we’re breaking standardized client-side scripting. Granted that Sun has a finger in this, since they kept trying to twist M$’ arm. But the reality is, it’s yet another step forward for the MicroBorgs, one step backwards for the Web.<\/p>\n
End of Diatribe. Time for lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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