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Nice article on Lotus Notes by Esther Schindler published on www.itbusinessnet.com.

While testing website code I often get to the point of using multiple computers and multiple systems and multiple VM Wares.

I have some old CD-Roms with old browsers, but let’s get real, I don’t carry them around with me all the time, so I was out searching for some older IE versions and stumble across this collection of IE 5.5 standalone and older versions.

http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone

Actually this wouldn’t be a big thing or anything, but there is one little thing that one needs to be aware of – OPERA! Opera can disguise itself as IE and that way pending on the user it can easily happen that in browserchecks the user get’s sent the wrong way.

As mentioned above, this is quick an dirty, for real detection the script nees to be far longer and quite frankly one should only resort to a browser check if one can absolutely NOT solve the problem another way, as there is always a chance that a browser or specific browser version get’s sent the wrong way or not sent anywhere at all.

So here is the code:

document.write("User Agent Name:
");

if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera') != -1) {
document.write("Opera");
}
else {
document.write(navigator.appName);
}

document.write("

Reiner IE Check:
");
if ((document.all) && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera')== -1))
{
document.write("IE");
} else {
document.write("not IE");
}

You can now modify it to your needs to switch whatever you need to.

Well, here in Germany we might still wait a little bit untill the sun shows up again, but if you are lucky then you are already running yround in your shorts.

So, how is your computer doing? A bit slower than usual? Got a Pentium4 and it might just be overheating without you noticing? Got a few harddisks which don’t like the heat either? You’re running on an AMD in an office with AC but the fan noise is killing you.

Well, look at what I found. It may not solve all your prolbems but it at least might give you some more information about how your computer is feeling today.

Speedfan … it doesn’t just monitor your cpu, but does your fan and harddisk (pending on make and modell).

Yes, it is free of course.

Deutsch:

Ich dachte es wäre mal Zeit DANKE zu sagen. An meinen Webstatistiken kann man merken das ich einige Leser in letzter Zeit habe. Das ist nicht Selbstverständlich, wenn man dann noch beachtet das ich den Weblog eigendlich als “Gedankenstütze” für mich selber mal angelgt hab und mittlerweile mich schon dabei erwische Inhalte für “meine Leser” rein zu Stellen, na dann hat sich doch einiges getan.

Falls Ihr es noch nicht bemerkt habt, habe ich jetzt auch angefangen TAGS zu verwenden. Wenn Ihr ein Post direkt aufmacht könnt Ihr in den neuen Posts ganz unten die TAGS (Keywords) sehen. Dies sollte eine weiter Hilfe sein Posts die was gemeinsam haben zu finden.

Ansonsten wollte ich hier noch sagen dass ich mich natürlich auch über jeglichen Feedback freue, also nur nicht Scheu sein und ruhig mal was unter die comments setzen.

English:

I though it was about time that I said THANK YOU. Judging bei my webstats one can see that within recent times I have benn getting quite a few readers. Actually my weblog was started to be a collection of things I wanten to jot down for myself, but now I catch myself posting content for “my readers”. Well looks like we are moving somewhere.

In case you didn’t notice, I started using TAGS. You can see them at the bottom of posts whenyou open them directly. This should be some more help in the future to find similar post with one click, other than by category.

While I am at it, just a reminder, I am quite happy about any feedback I get, so use the comment option at the bottom of each post.

I am always looking for nice littel design things and of course the infamous scrollbar ist one of these things which many people like to have differen. Well, I have done many sliding DIV TAGS inside of DIV TAGS and whatnot. But while surfing around once again I stepped over this Website:

http://www.blueshoes.org/en/javascript/slider/

They have some nice scrollbar treatment as well as some other neat little things (Checkbox and Form Styling, etc.).

So, before you start writing your own, have a look to see if there isn’t already something usable out there.

Trying out the Limbo-CMS again. I have had one of the early versions but at that time the beta was still really beta. Now it seems to be stable for quite a bit so let’s go.

The install was without errors, that’s good.

Nice on the three options on the Database (SQlite, MySQL or Text).

Unfortunatley the first bad point is popping up right after the installation. The Design Template Code ist still not compatible with W3W Standards and Opera is having a Problem with the Searchbox.

Well, that is a small problem.

Other than that it looks quite nice and all tested features seem to work, can’t really say more other than it is a miniature Mambo or Joomla. A bit faster but of course not as many options and Plug-ins.

One other thing I noticed and that is that there seem to still be a fewo old Mambo typical Security Problems with Limbo. Shortly after installing it and testing it for a few days I was listed in Google with “Limbo CMS” and shortly thereafter I had a few Scriptkidies at my front door.

They got in quite easy over an Exploit and started uploading their “Italian Filmies” (Yes, really … 700MB worth of Italian Film kopied via video camera in a movie theater).

After that I killed the whole Installation.

So, my suggestion to you out there … get Joomla if that is what you are looking for, stay away from Limbo until they mess with it a bit more and get some of the old Mambo Exploits fixed.