You have 3 more years with XP. Microsoft will end support for XP SP3 in April 2014. No more security updates and bug fixes after that. Same way they killed off Win 98, Me in 2006.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycle
Want some real fun?
Try developing web apps that use javascript and blow cookies that run in the currently changing security environs.
I’m currently working on this:
http://www.cat6surf.com/tools/C6SSketch.html
It’s a little dedicated 2D web CAD app that uses javascript for the graphics and cookies for data/board plan storage.
Sucker works on XP/7 Firefox but hurls on IE test boxes no matter how I try to configure the options.
Mac Safari support is an altogether different manimal with issues I simply lack time to tackle at this moment.
I’m thinking of telling customers to just use Firefox or to fuhghedaboudit and send me sumpin on the back of a napkin.
Very cool. You must be really smart. Seriously.
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Want some real fun?
Try developing web apps that use javascript and blow cookies that run in the currently changing security environs.
I'm currently working on this:
http://www.cat6surf.com/tools/C6SSketch.html
It's a little dedicated 2D web CAD app that uses javascript for the graphics and cookies for data/board plan storage.
Sucker works on XP/7 Firefox but hurls on IE test boxes no matter how I try to configure the options.
Mac Safari support is an altogether different manimal with issues I simply lack time to tackle at this moment.
I'm thinking of telling customers to just use Firefox or to fuhghedaboudit and send me sumpin on the back of a napkin.
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I just confirmed that the site you linked does not work with IE7 on XP. I feel your pain man. Have you ever tried building a site using Google App Engine? I'm not suggesting it. I was just curious if any web developers were actually using it. I read a bunch of documentation about it on the Google site, and it sounded cool. It may help solve the cross platform compatability issues.
Thanks for whatever you did Mr. Swaylock. It looks like the clicking problem has stopped.
Personally, no.
Did some digging when first looking for open source lightweight browser drawing apps and ran across svg-edit which was linked but apparently not based on the app engine. Cloud Canvas does appear to be built off of it though.
SVG and similar editors appear to be simply broken on IE after 6 without a clunky plugin but 9 promises to return functionality.
FUN!!!
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Can't wait to see where you're going with this.
By the way I did this in Safari on an Mac.
Worked fine.
Howzit atomized, Glad to hear they extended support for XP because I remember them saying hey were stopping it over a year ago. Aloha,Kokua
Excellent! Thank you for checking it.
The real reason for developing that app is it spits out a table of offsets on my end that are used to setup the molding equipment. When you save off a sketch and get it over to me by having the server read the cookie - cuts down on problems a customer has in figuring out how to “send” me a copy - an offset table is generated that tells me what settings have to be made on the adjustable vac rocker table used to create the blank. From there the offsets will be used to manage the CAM gantry when it gets married to the table.
Oh, and the other reason for doing it this way is you’ll be able to use your phone/tablet to generate the work. Yeah, I’m a scifi freak.
That sounds similar to the CADGET web program that the now defunct Ice 9 Foamworks had for users to create custom rockers for their polyurethane blanks. If I remember correctly, that program used Akima splines instead of Beziers.
Poked around breifly but couldn’t find anything on CADGET. Do you have any live of cached links?
Ice 9 went out of business about 2 or 3 years ago. They got hit bad by the recession and ran out of funding. I got a demo of CADGET when they gave me a tour of their operation about the time they where about to start production. CADGET was their way for shaper to order custom rocker for blanks online. The splines created would be used to cut the rocker out of a wood stringer blank on a CNC router table. The 2 halves of the polyurethane blank where then clamped and glued to the stringer matching its rocker.
That’s pretty cool.