Thursday Release Party

taktile writes "I started the project about a week and a half ago after learning about Apple's ASCIIMoviePlayer. QuickASCII is an Open Source project to add improvements to Apple's player." Another user writes, "There is a small group collaboration program called iStorm that is out. It anyone gets tired of severely delayed collaboration over the Internet, maybe he should try an almost telepathic experience with this program." ludeyork writes "I just saw that BBEdit 7.0 has been released and it's got great new features." It's very cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet. The CVS integration is worth the upgrade for me. yuck72 writes "Apple has just released version 5.2 of its WebObjects application server. Improvements include better J2EE integration, easy tools for building SOAP-based web services and Java Webstart support. Applications can be deployed on any machine with a Java 1.3.1 compliant JVM. Apple's 'best-kept secret' really deserves more attention than it currently gets considering that it plays in the same league as Websphere and Weblogic." Oops, maybe I should have given it its own story.

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Re:BBEdit 7.0 First Look

[frawaradaR]

Yeah, BBEdit rocks as an ASCII editor, but sucks completely as a Unicode editor.

Does it have a font preference for Unicode? No. We get some weirdo font that doesn't really cut it mixing different alphabets and symbols.

Does it validate XHTML correctly? No. Neither does it understand Unicode class names in CSS or HTML attributes. It expresses the very Usonian idea of changing actual characters to entities.

BBEdit remains a Carbon editor, which explains why it doesn't take advantage of the key technologies in Mac OS X. $179 for an app that doesn't understand fundamental XHTML and doesn't have very basic Unicode features? Don't think so. Will check back when it has gone Cocoa and has something to offer. For now, TextEdit is superior for editing Unicode web pages.