An announcement on use perl about petal, an perl clone of the elegant Zope/Python templating system called TAL, prompted several commentators to mention this article about choosing a templating system for perl web apps (which leans heavily towards mod_perl, obviously).
This is a test of mozblog 6 (6.6 actually). The UI looks much cooler, but I get a problem when I hit “synchronize”.
Some poking around later – there are some problems in the JS code – a variable with wrong case – and also a problem with getting the category listings from MT – I don’t know if the problem is with mozblog or with Movable Type. Also, Movable Type’s web interface hates entries without a title (which you can create if you post with mozblog, apparently, if not with the web interface.
Still, it’s so cool (and the potential of messing around in its innards to find and fix bugs is so enticing), that I re-installed mozilla at work (I had gone over to Netscape 7.0, which works fine, except for a few oddities – you need an AOL/Netscape screenname before it lets you connect to ICQ, for example – and some missing “adbusting” features you get in Mozilla).
Mozilla 1.2b has been released. According to the What’s New section of the release notes, the most interesting new feature is probably mail filtering on existing mail:
Mozilla Mail includes a new “filter after the fact” capability so users can create a filter and then run that filter on already downloaded mail. Filter logging has also been implemented.
Not in the release notes is that all your old themes and add-ons (mozblog, composite) won’t work – you’re restricted to using the Classic theme, which makes you feel like you’re back in 4.7xxx again.
Oh, and I can’t edit mail.
Seems like I’m going to roll this one back… although maybe I want to run those mail filters first.
Al Ha VeDa is the blog of Simon Montagu, Netscape’s current BiDi/Hebrew expert. He used to work for IBM (in the team that implemented BiDi in Mozilla), and then moved to Netscape – a move several of the more active independant contributors did. Apropos of this(?), he writes:
Getting through an interview requires basic social skills. This makes open source projects the natural home of the folks who write really cool code but also happen to be total dorks.
The link to Simon’s blog comes from Ian Hixie, who has a account of his heroic struggle with the Hebrew numbering system.
The latest version of AbiWord supports BiDi (Hebrew and potentially Arabic) text editing!
Unfortunately, Word docs opened up with it look weird (neutral character get shoved to the start of the line), and it doesn’t seem to be easy to work in.
Good start, though. Looks like the open source Hebrew word processor scene is heating up, with both this ASbiword development and with the Israeli Finance Ministry’s announced support for an IBM intiative to add Hebrew capabilities to Openoffice.