the power of 0ne

Ed Sim points to a very interesting article on the recent settlement between Microsoft and Sun.

The conclusion of the article seems a little utopic to me, but the ideas are fundamentally sound, big proprietary software companies should be totally freaked out about Open Source (and by association open specs etc...).

I absolutely love reading Jeffrey Zeldman, and his latest post on web design is especially good. Here's a snippet:

What I most like about Jeffrey's writing, is that it inspires me. It inspires me to learn more about the users I write web pages for, to learn new tools and new, better ways of doing things and sometimes it even inspires me to try and make the work a better place ;)

I'm sure that if every web designer read just one of Jeffrey's posts the web would be a much more apealing place.

I just realized there was an error in the post I made yesterday about my Smart Tag stripper, the line that read:

The script should be called by the new & edit message callbacks in Frontier. You can run a pattern match on the body of the message for "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags", if that string is in there there's a very good chance that your document is full of those nasty office smart tags.