March 27, 2004

The Firefox opportunity. The future of "great Windows applications," we're told, lies with Longhorn's next-generation presentation subsystem, Avalon, which will reboot software development sometime in the latter half of this decade. Of course, even Microsoft can't wait until then. Consider InfoPath. It's a great Windows application and a rich Internet client that had to ship in 2003. Its foundation is none other than Internet Explorer -- or rather, the suite of components and Internet standards on which Internet Explorer depends. Could InfoPath have been built on a Mozilla foundation instead? You bet. And the result wouldn't just be a great Windows application. It would be a great application, period. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] After I wrote this column, I checked out an interesting new application that I wish had been built on a Mozilla foundation: Onfolio. You can't fault Onfolio's creator, J.J. Allaire, for targeting the overwhelming majority platform: IE/Win. Of course as a .NET app, Onfolio targets a minority within that majority. We live in interesting times! ... [Jon's Radio] 12:48:08 PM     Worst album covers gallery. Nice gallery of bad album covers, with funny commentary. Link (Thanks, Greg!) [Boing Boing] 12:42:47 PM     Photodex ProShow Gold 2.0. Software: Photodex has today announced the release of the newest version of its slide show presentation product ProShow Gold. With version 2.0, ProShow Gold continues to be the only slide show presentation product that combines all output formats into a single application. This ‘Create once, Play anywhere' approach provides the user unmatched flexibility. ProShow Gold 2.0 is priced at $69.95 and standard edition for $29.95, both for electronic delivery. Both versions provide... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] 8:23:04 AM     Archos AV500 Nips, Tucks. JOEL JOHNSON -- Archos continues to refine their 'big brick' design, to a point it almost looks ... cool. (I know!) The AV500, another CeBIT showing, is a portable video player as well as a PDA, with a 704 by 480 screen and 20 or 40GB hard drive. Dual USB2.0... [Gizmodo] 8:21:11 AM

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