In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:21:44 +0100
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> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Friday 09 June 2006 18:00 \__
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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>> wrote
>> on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:36:53 +0100
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>>> __/ [ rapskat ] on Friday 09 June 2006 08:27 \__
>>>
>>>> The Liquid weather SuperKaramba theme makes The Weather Bug look
>>>> like...well...a BUG!
>>>>
>>>> The latest version includes such niftyness like simple location lookups,
>>>> very nice graphics and effects, satellite photo retrieval, webcam
>>>> retrieval, 5 day forecasts, current condition summaries, and much more.
>>>>
>>>> Best of all, it's free, open source, easily configurable and modified,
>>>> and small, unlike TWB. No annoying popups, sounds or undesirable
>>>> ancillary software installed either.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, windows users, Linux only :-(
>>>
>>> Not necessarily. Windows users can install KDE [1]. I don't know,
>>> hoeever, if transparency will be handled gracefully by Windows XP
>>> (and its predecessors).
>>
>> Judging from IE's mishandling of PNG...I have my doubts. :-)
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> Vista should be able to handle it though. They re-wrote the PNG
> modules. It's CSS that remains a major concern in
> Internet Explorer 7. It is still not standards-compliant. Not
> enough time for development, so the release is half-baked.
> The biggest sufferers aare Web designers and developers.
And then there's the users who have to suffer through what should be a
more or less standardized experience. :-/
Especially if Web developers get a little lazy and don't check their
creations with IE7.
Sigh.
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