h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

FM << but there looks like a lot of down and dirty DHTML stuff going on.>>

Does 'down and dirty' mean 'rather complicated' and/or 'contravening the W3C Web Standards and Guidelines (or similar)'?

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I wondered why Gmail had only limited (i.e. only the 'basic html' interface) functionality in Opera, and found http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/opera/gmail/ - where a simple (70 line) 'workaround' is described and thought you (Jim) might be interested

Not sure if it works though as I haven't had the time - or rather the need - since loading Firefox

I did for try the https://gmail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser approach in Opera (8.53) - but curiously, both that and the http (without the s) version still load Gmail in 'basic html'

It means both: I've had a look at the HTML source and, short of dropping in a Java applet which handles all the rich text formatting, I can't see any way of managing the formatting other than built-in editor functionality.

IE has an *incredibly* powerful editing engine but it is also very difficult to program with anything other than C++. I am not a C++ programmer, so when I started out on the GuideDog project I found myself spending most of my time trying to get VB.NET and MSHTML to talk to each other and very little actually doing productive work. GD is not 'dead in the water': it's just on hold until Windows Vista comes out, as this has a native XML editing engine that should be very much easier for the likes of me to program.