Recently I have been doing some changes to the CSS files on this site. I wanted to eliminate the page width of the default template of plog, now the site uses the browser window width.

While developing the changes, I tested with Mozilla (and derivatives) and Konqueror, everything worked perfectly, until I restarted my computer in order to do the required Internet Explorer test, as I expected it does not looked right.

I investigated for a nice workaround to the IE bugs that does not need client or server side browser sniffing, and found this feature of IE called Conditional Comments

This feature is activated when the page uses standard HTML/XML comments with an special format, when IE detects them they will be shown according to the IE version that is being used or ignored.

The following example includes a CSS file only if the browser is IE 6 or superior:

<!--[if gte IE 6]>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/plog/styles/marcanoonline-ie.css" type="text/css"/>
<![endif]-->

Any other browser (many of them with better CSS support than IE) will ignore the comment and the stylesheet will not be loaded

I have found a nice GNOME utility to create basic post to any XMLRPC compatible blog software, it is GNOME Blog

The feature that I like the most of this tool is that the generated HTML uses paragraph tags (p) instead of using line breaks (br). As you may know br is removed from the current XHTML 2.0 working draft and is replaced by the line tag (l). There are people trying to include it again, but I hope to never see it again ;-)

I am now a happy user of a cable internet connection from my home. I have always refused to access the net using a dialup connection because I have had always faster connections at work and I never tolerated the huge difference on speed: "the human is the only animal that creates new necessities"

I have developed many Java2D based applications, and have used many times SVG tools to draw the applications artwork, company logos, and many other things, for me this will change. For the first time ever since I know about SVG I am implementing a Java application that need to display and print a lot graphical content without using Java2D directly, this time I am using the Java library named Batik

I have written a small document explaining what can be implemented to integrate the PKI certificates management on GNOME based applications, It is called GNOME Certificate Database Library proposal

Update 04/06/2004: The library proposal was fractioned on two parts, in order to allow the sharing of the certificates backends with other desktop platforms