Today I managed to blow up Linux Mandrake 7.0 trying to get TrueType fonts to work. I read this document and some of the documents that are linked to it, but all I managed to do was get X to crash and never come back again. Back to the drawing board.
Over at XML.com, Simon St. Laurent reviews the XML support in Mozilla.
It seems like at least one person really gets it when it comes to open standards. (I actually think that quite a few people at IBM get it. For a company that seemed totally out of touch in the eighties and early nineties, IBM is really on the cutting edge these days.)
The patent office is trying to clean up its act when it comes to business model patents, thank goodness. We’ll see if their review process makes any difference at all. Like all good government functionaries, the commisioner of the office says that there was never anything wrong with the process in the first place.
We have a date: the beta of Netscape 6 will debut on April 5. I’ll probably stick with the bare Mozilla release and not use the Netscape-branded beta, but if it’s really good, who knows?