Monthly Archives: April 2009

SeaMonkey

Tech,

At work, my new default browser is SeaMonkey 1.1. It has, for the most part, replaced Netscape as my “official” work web browser. I chose it due to the fact that it is a full internet application suite and includes a fully functional mail client. It also includes a WYSIWYG HTML Editor as well as an IRC client, but I don’t see much use for it at the moment.

I’m very happy with it thus far. The integration of the mail client into the suite has made my work twice as easy now. I have had some trouble with a couple of websites (which is kind of weird since the underlying rendering engine is the same as that used by Netscape 9), but those sites are really unnecessary, time-killing sites like Facebook, Xanga, and Blogger. Hopefully I’ll work the bugs out over the next few days.

Products I Follow, #1

Tech,

I eventually want to compile a list of stuff I follow on this website, when my real world life dies down a little (right now, this is projected to happen in December 2009, upon which time I will have finished my B.A. coursework, hopefully).

I still occasionally use KompoZer, a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Although I usually prefer to code by hand (and use a combination of Max’s HTML Beauty++ 2004 and Dreamweaver at work), KompoZer is a great resource to put up simple HTML pages (like this little placeholder page I set up for one of my future projects which I am doing in collaboration with Katherine). My entire ‘Aiea Highlife website was built and still is maintained using KompoZer, for example, though I wrote the CSS for the page by hand.

The official development blog for KomPozer is located at http://kazhack.org/?tag/editor. I can’t wait for the final version 0.8 to be released.