Jesse Ezell Blog

Download IE 7 Today

If you haven't heard, you can get the beta now:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/

The Great Sucking Sound Returns

I guess it was only a matter of time till MS snatched up Clemens too.

[1] http://staff.newtelligence.net/clemensv/PermaLink,guid,260a53cb-e2c7-4d4a-ba6d-a0dbfa208173.aspx

JD on Flash 8 Specs

Here is JD's feedback on the Flash 8 file format specs:

"The Flash Player 8 was finalized and publicly released at the end of August, and the 8.5 Player was announced a month later. I'm not sure yet of estimated publication date for either the new 8.0 tags, or whether this will be rolled into the key 8.5 release... I get the sense it's in publishing now, but I haven't researched this in January.

Let me check in to this today, see if I can get some better info here....

...I haven't connected with the owner of this process yet (still lots of Adobe integration going on), but when I peek behind a firewall I see that the SWF8 format does appear to have its documentation finalized and should be pushed live soon... preliminary info I've got is that it's the licensing agreement which still needs to be finalized. (We're trying to avoid damage from potential player forking, and recent events have made this trickier.)

Nothing definitive yet, but that's the early info I have.

Sidenote: I'd urge caution on any outside-the-blackbox documentation... stuff that "seems to work" in one version may not be the enduring stuff the group stands behind in its actual documentation."

Flash 8 File Format Specs

Well, like usual Macromedia (er.... Adobe)  is really lagging on getting the specs out. From what I understand, Macromedia was really disorganized in regards to the SWF spec even internally, so it shouldn't be suprising that it takes forever to get this stuff out to everyone else. In the mean time, go visit:

http://wiki.jswiff.com/Wiki.jsp?page=Flash8Tags

And you can get some info on the current tags. It's a wiki, so feel free to add your own input if you know a bit more or figure out anything that isn't listed.

Treo SmartPhone is Here

I've been waiting a long time for this:

http://www.vzwshop.com/treo700w/

Gates on Google

...in a phone interview preceding his keynote, Gates downplayed a Google threat.

"I hear they're coming out with a robot that will cook hamburgers, too. Let's spread that rumor — there's nothing they can't do," Gates said in jest.

On a more serious note, Gates added: "Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality."

[1] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10714080/page/2/