This has been an intellectually exhausting week. The Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America is in town, and I've been in hard rock/dino fossil heaven. Got one story already out of Andy Heckert's vegetarian dinosaurs. I met Andy doing field work down in southern New Mexico three years ago, and he's been helping me out with dino history ever since. He's a classic dinosaur junkie paleontologist, obsessed with the scientific question of what made these big critters so phenomenally successful. We use the cliche of a "dinosaur" to mean something that is large, outlived its time and failed or is about to. But dinsosaurs had a good long run, longer than any other big critter. Why? It's a great question. I also spent a lot of time with a bunch of friends who have been working on some major regional structural issues across the intermountain west. It's been fun to watch them over time, to see how their ideas have evolved.computers
I swear this is the last patch to gnome-db2html2. At Dan's request, I modified support for the emphasis tag to support bold as well as italic presentation. Every time I work on that thing I cringe a bit, though it does have one virtue - it is faster than the new xslt version I'm working on. But since we're so dependent on mozilla, which is the slow link in the chain, it's not a user-noticeable speed issue anyway.The KDE folks have come up with a good solution, which is to parse the whole document, hold it in memory, and parcel out the sections as needed. I think we need some sort of approach like that for GNOME 2.