Archive For April 29th, 2003
And in honour of all the search highlighting going on here, This guy had way too much time on his hands when he posted this message!
Keith posted about his efforts to highlight Google search terms. This is interesting! I may be able to create a b2-prefunction that does the same for b2++. Update! I modified my original highlightsearch() function, adding in most of the code found on textism.org which also fixes the problem of highlighting text inside html links! Woo! [...]
Kernel Traffic reports that some people are working on compressing RAM instead of swapping it out. This is like the old Quarterdeck RAM Doubler on Win95 so long ago. Results are mixed however, and I even remember on Win95 the technique didn’t make much of a difference either in “real life” situations.
Prompted by Simon’s posting last night I tried the nightly build of Phoenix. It’s nice, very nice in fact. It feels a lot more responsive than Mozilla or Galeon, but in the latter case, that could be because I have a dozen tabs open.. Fonts don’t look as nice, but maybe there’s ways to force [...]
