Excellent free HTML Editor for Eclipse

4 03 2009

Doing some AS3 projects in FDT (Eclipse plug in) with FlashVars & SWFAddress and it’s so good being able to pop into a decent HTML Editor in the same IDE. It’s just as good as EditPlus & free. Lovely. Just drop the .jar in your plugins directory. Details and Sourceforge link here 



Tech news that beggars belief

24 02 2009

Firstly it would appear that Lord Carter’s vision for Digital Britain involves speed reducing, litigation fuelling ISP snooping DRM nonsense á la China, Syria and Australia read more here & behold the zeitgeist in action:

www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/10/cory-doctorow-digital-britain

Absolutely not. We will march through the streets of Shoreditch!

And also IE8 actually introduces 2 new browsers to test in because IE7 ‘Compatibility Mode’ does not render sites in the same was as IE7 ????? See news here from IE’s marketing department and a pretty damning analysis from someone with more sense

Google ChromePlease don’t use IE ever! Chrome is blisteringly fast and doesn’t crash because if one tab hangs you can kill that process without losing the whole application and having to kill your session (though god knows what private data is collected while you use it) but I’m split between that and Firefox 3 as it’s got so many amazing tools and I love Mozilla. If Google would only add FFox plugin support though…