Browsable hardware list

[tribelessnomad]

Brad asked for a viewer for LJ's hardware list, so I wrote one which utilizes the W3C's Document Object Model to read input

Comments

[bradfitz]

Doesn't do shit in IE 5.1 or Omniweb in OS X.
I don't feel like booting my other computers this early in the morning.

Can you port it to libxml-errno? I hate client-side anything, because it never works.

[thinkdevin]

I agree with client side being silly. Politics and standard wars never helped either.

[bradfitz]

Even in Mozilla (which works the same everywhere), I can only see a form, but nothing happens when I change form values.

If it doesn't even work in Mozilla, you expect me to care at all? Isn't it obvious LJ is a bit against Microsoft-only solutions?

Also, I hate "htm" as an extension. It should always be "html", at least for consistency. "htm" looks so Microsoft.

microsoft owns me

[onamuji]

how come whenever someone says anything negative about microsoft I get very defensive and want to jump on that person and rip them to shreds?

does microsoft own my soul? :-(

I agree, I have always hated the .htm ... didn't make much sense since it is an HTML file. I wonder how much of LJ could be converted over to PERL.NET :-)

[volkris]

Haha, beat me to reporting back about Mozilla.

Have you seen http://www.xulbook.com/xulexample.xul ? It's an example project that was done in a book called Essential XUL Programming (XUL being a Mozilla layout manager type thing, if you didn't know). It's actually an asset management interface that looks a lot like what he tried to do. It works better or worse depending on exactly what build of Mozilla you're viewing it with; the XUL standard has changed slightly over time and this project wasn't updated.

It's only an example, though. An Mozilla only solution isn't any better than an IE-only one.

[twistah]

Works great in IE 5.5 SP2, but not so well in Mozilla 0.9.8+ (Gecko/20020129) for Windows. When it does work, though, it's very cool and functional.