Jon Galloway

Internet Explorer 4 used document.all['elementName'] to refer to document elements while waiting for the W3C standard, which turned out to be document.getElementById('elementName'). IE 5 and above, plus all other modern standards based browsers, all support document.getElementByID(). IE 4 usage was below .5% in 2002 and isn't even being tracked anymore, so there's no good reason to be using document.all anymore.

I was looking around for the Most Unwanted Song since I seem to have lost my copy. This song was scientifically designed to be liked by "fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population", and oddly enough I'm one of them. They conducted surveys on least liked themes and instrumentation, then comissioned a song full of rapping over tubas, operatic interludes about the cowboy life, and children's choirs singing about politics, religion, holidays, and advertising. Wonderful.

Heard about the OpenNetCF Smart Device Framework on Wally McClure's ASP.NET Podcast. It's a shared source framework that "enriches and extends the .NET Compact Framework by providing a rich set of classes and controls not available in the .NET Compact Framework."

RSSBandit is a great RSS Aggregator, but it's just about unusable with over 1000 feeds. CPU use goes through the roof, and it's got some GDI leaks. It runs, but the computer's not very usable. I've been starting it up every few days and setting the process priority to "Below Normal" in the Task Manager, but it's enough of a pain that I've just been browsing to a few pages in a browser (shudder) and ignoring the other feeds.

RSS.NET is an open source class library which reads and writes RSS reeds. The project is still technically in beta and has never officially released a build, but a lot of applications are using it. I've been using it for a while and am very happy with it, but it has been a little disappointing to see this project linger in beta limbo for a few years now.

Roiy, the brains behind the Monoppix project, just started a blog. His first post covers Sending E-Mails With Embedded Images and an overview of the DotNet Open Mail Library project.