Jukka-Pekka Keisala

Is it only me who finds ironic that Microsoft has big banner in their homepage where they ask people to help Tsunami victims. And in a same page there is a picture of the world’s richest man…

Better later than never… (?)
The MSN Spaces beta version is a free service available in 14 languages and 26 markets worldwide. MSN spaces is integrated with MSN Messenger which allows you to create private blog that is available only for your messenger contacts. You can see my blog at http://spaces.msn.com/members/jpkeisala though, there is nothing?

I don’t understand what sense there is to make web based applications for specific browsers. Many web based apps works only on Internet Explorer on Windows machines. It would be much easier for developers just create special windows application to do that work instead trying to fork Internet Explorer to do that work. Just image a Content Management System that works only on IE on windows. Why not just create windows application with rich text editor or make customization into MS Word instead. I think Microsoft has a great API for writing nice windows applications but forking IE really sucks. This way perhaps there could be actually some use for Web Services as well.

For Sunday afternoon fun I installed PearPC with Panther. It was quite funny to see Mac running in window on XP.
Unfortunally I had some problems to get network running.
http://forums.pearpc.net/viewtopic.php?t=992&highlight=realtek

EXSLT.NET library is community-developed free open-source implementation of the EXSLT extensions to XSLT for the .NET platform. EXSLT.NET fully implements the following EXSLT modules: Dates and Times, Common, Math, Random, Regular Expressions, Sets and Strings. In addition EXSLT.NET library provides proprietary set of useful extension functions.

Download EXSLT.NET 1.1 at the EXSLT.NET Workspace home - http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/exslt
EXSLT.NET online documentation - http://www.xmland.net/exslt

EXSLT.NET Features:

• 65 supported EXSLT extension functions
• 13 proprietary extension functions
• Support for XSLT multiple output via exsl:document extension element
• Can be used not only in XSLT, but also in XPath-only environment
• Thoroughly optimized for speed implementation of set functions

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This is nice ad for boring day. Steve Ballmer Sells Windows 1.0 video. Heheh. Priceless

You can now run XAML wherever the .NET Framework is installed. See pretty picture below.

Xamlon v0.9 (Beta 5)

• Visual Studio .NET 2003 integration, which lets you visually design forms and generate XAML user interface code with Visual Studio.
• Declarative 3-D support
• Extensive new sample applications
• AiSVG (Adobe Illustrator SVG) to XAML converter
• XamlPad, a simple editor for XAML with real-time preview

Get it from xamlon.com

I was reading in bink.nu that there is some ways actually talk with Internet Explorer team and yes… rumor says that there is that kind of team.

Try these out:
1) Does Microsoft care about Webmasters? (IE group program manager Tony Chor is answering questions there — read all three pages).

2) When will we see features that Internet Explorer lacks? (Tony Chor is answering questions here too — read all three pages).

3) Wiki for leaving product feature requests for IE (the IE team is watching here).

Another nice little schema which makes Microsoft Visual Studio Web Form templates to XHTML -Strict. This is very nice for people who actually needs those standards instead of hearing marketing bulk from MS how they follow industry standards. (just a days negative comments to MS )
More info here and download is here

If you are good in German and you use FP2003 or VS.NET 2003 check this out.

It has been buggering me for long time that VS.Net does not ship with the XSLT schema needed to enable Intellisense for your XSLT v1.0 documents as well as XSLT templates are without the xsl: prefixes for some reason when you make new xslt document. I was tipped out in Sitecore Developer Seminar that I should install this little add-on for Visual Studio to solve a problem. Fesersoft VS.NET XSLT v1.0 Schema