Thursday, February 09, 2006

And they called it "Firefox"

If any of you have seen the beta of Internet Exploder 7 then you will, I should hope, recognise it as a complete rip off of Firefox.



If you have ever used Firefox you will recognise the tabs, the search box, the RSS symbol. Not only are they present, they are all in almost the exact same place and work in the same way. I assume that Microsoft realised the competition had features that it didn't and copied the code line for line (Firefox being open source).

However this update is undoubtedly an improvement, although I won't be switching to it.
The nicer updates which caught my eye were:
The inclusion of PNG alpha transparency (finally) which has annoyed me for ages and ages due to having to make all my tranparent images GIFs just because there were so many people using IE.
Closer W3C compliance, although I don't know how closely it complies.
The other main updates can be found here.

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Building

I've been building several areas for the Neverwinter Nights server I play on. You can script functions to do pretty much anything and what I've discovered is thatits really easy, I'm not sure if I just have a knack for it or if it really is that easy but I've been making a load of scripts to do various things and so far not come up against a hitch.

I've also had fun making the areas, its amazing what you can do with a few buildings and some trees to make it look like an elfie city.

Anyhow, yeah I'm a geek, I've managed to combine programing and online persistant worlds into one blog post.

Hmm, this seems a bit short for a post, though I suppose its just lack of pictures.
Therefore here is a pic someone else took of one of the areas.
(click for full size)