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Friday, November 8, 2002

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Someone else also likes Chimera... Chimera Continues To Challenge IE On Mac OS X: "One of the most delightful projects to come out of the Mozilla effort is the Chimera browser." (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Trying Mac-Like Look To Windows: "As I played with this software, it made me realize just how much work Apple put into the interface for OS X." (San Jose Mercury News via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Mac Product Reviews: Where's The Trust?: "Both print magazines and Web sites will often subject a product to some sort of lab test, but it's not an absolute science, and the choices made in figuring out what to test and how can influence the outcome." (Mac Night Owl via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Matt Croydon::postneo answered my question about how easy applying the new theme was:

The transition went pretty well. I had also tweaked my old theme, adding links and blogrolls down the side. I saved my home page template so that I could keep these tweaks.

The next step was to turn upstreaming off in Radio. I didn't want things to go live until they were ready. I had to remove every reference of Veranda and Garamond from the movable type CSS file after applying the theme. I'm an Airal guy. It's clean.

After removing a few things like smaller fonts on links and adding a new section on the sidebar with my blogroll, I turned on upstreaming.

I opened Radio, and ran Tools -> Publish -> Entire website. A good backup of your www folder should be done beforehand.

Overall I'm pleased with the result. It didn't take a whole lot of time and was definately worth it.

Thanks for the answer! I think I'll have to look at my style definitions to make the new theme a bit more readable. But this is a good start, I believe. I also used the following hint on Centralized CSS in Radio:

If you would like to centralize your Radio CSS you can simple save your Style sheet as "#cascadingStyleSheet.txt" then place it in your "www" folder. Then simply add the <%cascadingStyleSheet%> macro to your template. Your CSS will be included where you included your macro.

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eWeek: "Adobe's PDF document-distribution format may seem entrenched among computing consumers, but that isn't stopping Microsoft from trying to throw its weight behind a competing publishing venture." [Scripting News]

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Healthy Skepticism To Greet Microsoft's Tablet PC Launch: "Microsoft is planning a splashy launch event Thursday to introduce the long-touted Tablet PC, but a lean marketplace crowded with doubtful and tight-fisted IT buyers awaits the new device." [Google Technology News]

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The new weblog template looks a bit different in OmniWeb and Chimera. I should probably try to validate the HTML code, because I made so many changes to the style files so rapidly. But everything works now ok, so perhaps I'll let this be for a while, and then try to do some polishing and checking.

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Microsoft calls 'foul' on OS vulnerability data: "The data indicated that the Macintosh operating system and certain varieties of Unix are less vulnerable to attack than the more popular Windows and Linux." [Computerworld News]