Sometimes, being a mostly Linux user, one forgets just how little Linux is used, and how big a force Windows and MS as a whole is. You start to think that Linux actually matters, and then some developer, user or whatever, comes up and couldn’t care less about Linux. Many times even Open Source itself. Sometimes you need this kind of feedback to bring you back to the real world, I guess, rather than the somewhat insular world open source seems to wrap around itself on occasion. Show yourself how far things have to move before things really start to get exciting.

New Release Candiate of ShellOn v3. Get it from the ShellOn v3 page. Dinner time, so more on this another time. It is worth your while to grab it, fixes some of the biggest usability bugs. Including the “You must restart for new shells to be selectable in the Default Shell box” one. Nice.

After the news that Microsoft will not be updating standalone IE, comes another addition to the MS &“We 0wnz j00, internet” crowd. MS have announced that they will not be producing another version of IE for Mac. Whilst IE is more like a stasis session than a death, the fate of IE/Mac seems to be just that.

Roz Ho, the general manager of Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit, has confirmed that no future versions of Internet Explorer will be released for the Mac.

Just after writing out that last post, I checked out Tantek’s site. Finding out about the death of one of your creations, especially one as good as the IE5/Mac Tasman rendering engine, from friends and the press, rather than the employers who you created it for (and still work for) sucks big time. Big companies happen, I guess.

I have come to the conclusion that menus are complicated. A menu will typically have around fifty items in it, along with some submenus. Each of these has their own objects and all have to be dynamically created and freed as needed. Rather a lot of scope for memory leaks, which can’t be tolerated in a menu system, imo.