istokj - Slashdot User

Comment Big ditto on the thanks (Score 2) 238

by istokj on Thursday August 25, 2011 @02:52PM (#37210320) Attached to: So Long, CmdrTaco, and Thanks For All The Posts

Having also been a longtime reader here, I owe a lot of the success in my career to both the posts that made it to slashdot as well as the comments (parrot'ing that information in meetings and sales calls has always made me look smarter and more in the know). Even today, I can reference my low user id at slashdot and gain immediate street cred with a lot of very technical people. Thanks rob for putting this place together.

China's Open Document Format Fight 118

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @05:00PM from the open-docs-around-the-world dept.

eldavojohn writes "While there's been a lot of talk of the open document formats in the states, China is facing the same dilemma. A ZDNet blog examines the issue by pointing out they will most likely merge their current standard with either OOXML or ODF. The bulk of their post points out why OOXML shouldn't be ISO certified and is the biggest problem for Microsoft's standard: 'Another Standard, Microsoft does not support, is the specification RFC 3987, which defines UTF-8 capable Internet addresses. Consequently, OOXML does not support, to use Chinese characters within a Web address.' This would be problematic for many languages, not just Chinese."

Comment slow performance (Score 1) 196

by istokj on Tuesday May 23, 2006 @10:11PM (#15391142) Attached to: What is OpenLaszlo, and What is it Good For?

I'm all for new technology, but I just tried to implement an application using this in the last 4 weeks (instead of Macromedia's Flex) and with 60 or more fields, the performance just in clearing the form was upwards of 30 seconds or more. This technology has potential, but might be a ways off from truly useful enterprise apps.

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