Tuesday, October 20, 1998

InfoWorld reports on Barksdale's testimony. "I have never been in a meeting in my 33-year business career in which a competitor had so blatantly implied that we should either stop competing with it or the competitor would kill us."

Mail Starting 10/20/98. Whew! Finally the Mail pages are working on the new server. It's been almost a month. One important note, like all other URLs on nirvana.userland.com, the one above will change.

Platform Issue: We're planning on integrating Microsoft's HTML display control in Frontier 6 on Windows. This is the right time to mention that this capability does not exist on Mac OS. To Apple, it's an important Windows feature that that Mac OS does not have.

Larry Wall wants Perl to be the best scripting language for XML work. This always bothered me. How do I respond? It's a good idea for Perl to invest in XML. I support that. Then I figured it out. Frontier 5 already is, by far, the best scripting environment for XML work.

O'Reilly press release: "Leading Perl and XML developers collaborating. Goal: To make Perl the top scripting language for XML."

Background: Frontier 5 and XML. And we're not the only ones working on XML in Frontier.

Technology Solutions has adapted James Clark's expat parser to run, elegantly, in the Frontier environment, cross-platform and native. It's the same parser Netscape and Perl are using. We've got this one covered!

XMLU is producing a new event called <TAG>'98.

Olav Martin Kvern: Fonts for Coding.