Getting frozen, or fixed, header and footer rows in a table is a
frustrating exercise, especially if you need to support Internet
Explorer 7. In searching for solutions to what you would think would
be a common problem, I discovered two plug-ins for jQuery that ease
the pain of displaying tables with such features:
Michael K. expresses a lot of what I’ve been mulling over for the last few months in the The great demise of the file: I want to manage my own data. I want to preserve it myself. I don’t want to depend on another application and its developers to continue to access the stuff I write and the photos I take. Will their apps be there for me in a year? Five years? Ten? Twenty?
Files – plain, jpeg’s, png’s, mp3’s – they’ll be around, as easy to find and use as they have been for the last twenty-five years.
Succinctly states what so many veteran programmers working in the
Microsoft world miss:
You shouldn’t always follow good advice, but you should always take it into account. You have other options besides the literal interpretation.
via Giles Bowkett