September 2005

• MAC Addresses.....again... Dread Quixadhal
• Online Alchemy looking for senior programmer candidates Michael Sellers
• DGN: Reasons for play Koster, Raph
• Hint Dhiego Ramos
• Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Matt Chatterley
• • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Edward Glowacki
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? lwl@black-knight.org (Lydia Leong)
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Christopher Allen
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Mike Rozak
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Oscar Bremsht
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Jacob Allison
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Sean Howard
  • • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? The Arrow
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Pandora
  • • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Matt Chatterley
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Nick Koranda
  • Custom Client or Plain ole' Telnet? Peter Harkins
• [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Arnau Josep Rosselló Castelló
• • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Edward Glowacki
  • • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Arnau Josep Rosselló Castelló
    • • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Lachek Butalek
      • • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Max Battcher
      • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Arnau Josep Rosselló Castelló
  • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Lachek Butalek
  • • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Christopher Allen
  • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework ceo
  • • [TECH] Multi - Browser plugin framework Max Battcher
      Just a few disagreements on your numbers.
      
      ceo wrote:
      
      > AJAX: no install needed, "just works"
      
      *If* you have the browser for it. Still restrictive in what you can
      do (as you are still in the "pull" only arena).
      
      > Flash: 97% chance no install needed (already installed)
      
      On Windows, because IE has installed the Flash plugin for years, you
      might see 97%. On other platforms and in other browsers your going
      to see probably a more likely 85%; and you are also more and more
      likely to find people with Flash turned off or blocked thanks to the
      advertisers.
      
      > C#: ?? chance no install needed - there's many .NET apps out there
      > that have forced people to download the runtimes, but ... they
      > still seem to have reached only a tiny minority of people
      
      I'd call it 65% of Windows users. I believe XP SP2 or higher users
      should have the 1.0 and 1.1 Framework installed, even though they
      might not know it. Also, if you follow the Windows Update
      recommendations on any Windows platform (which you should), you
      should have it as well. Windows Server 2005 requires the .NET
      Frameworks for several applications and all Windows Vista users will
      have 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 Frameworks (the 2.0 Framework is finalized
      next month, by the way).
      
      As for *nix: The Mono Framework is slowly being added as a "must
      have" package for several of the Gnome-based distros, and many of
      the latest Gnome apps are written in C# and require Mono.
      
      --
      --Max Battcher--
      http://www.worldmaker.net/