Day: <span>July 8, 2002</span>

More on Slashdot: MS Palladium Patent, Commerce Dep’t to Hold Public Workshop on DRM.

Slashdot: Apple Blacklists “Rumor Promoting” Publications.

The MacWorld Expo is run by IDG, owner of Mac Publishing LLC, for whom I used to work. They’re so “BigCo” it’s not even funny, and this shit doesn’t surprise me in the least.

By the way, former Mac Pub writer Matthew Rothenberg wrote this up over on eWeek a few days ago.

David Burrows: “This is an interesting development for the Mac platform. IE on the PC is a standard Active X control and can be easily used in Windows apps as an html rendering component. OS 9/10 doesn’t have this functionality which makes it harder to take advantage of HTML and the web in Mac apps. With this embeddable browser, Opera has a chance of making vast inroads into the Mac browser market, perhaps becoming the de-facto standard on the platform. It’s interesting they’ve gone with Opera instead of Mozilla/Gecko, I suppose Macromedia need more control over the development process and they think they’ll get that with Opera…”