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This is post is really for me more than anything else. I have been trying to find some information on what new features IE7 offers for those embedding the WebBrowser control. In the process, I also found some stuff that came out with IE6 during the WinXP SP2 timeframe.

Take a couple weeks off from blogging and it’s real hard to get back into it. I have been working toward a BETA at my day job, playing around with a web project at home and enjoying the end of year holidays as well.

A while ago, I was looking for a P2P framework library that I could use in a software project. The only real P2P toolkits I found were the Java-based JXTA and the Windows XP (SP1) Peer-to-Peer API from Microsoft. Neither really worked for me. I program in C++ and wanted to support older OSes.

By now anyone interested in software user experience has seen the video or read the articles about Microsoft Office 12 getting a complete UI makeover. For an ongoing explanation of the design rationale, you should also checkout Jensen Harris’ blog. Jensen works on the Office user experience team.

In a rather accidental manner, I am starting up several new projects. I am really getting into Wiki’s. I installed MediaWiki at work for internal collaboration and knowledge management. I decided to run it on Linux instead of Windows, so I installed Ubuntu. Wow! First time I have ever done anything with a *nix. It’s fantastic. I am considering switching my home machine to Ubuntu as well.

I have been playing with XUL Runner. It feels like writing a web app, but runs on the desktop. Windows, Linux and Mac desktops. Sweet!

Why are UI frameworks pigs? Because they don’t love you back.