renehollan's Journal: Been a while...

Feh.

I wanted to write here daily, but I got caught up at work in a "friendly sysinstall" project.

On the home front, I've tried a new approach for a PayMyBills reader applet: have it render the documents directly. There's three basic types: html (no sweat -- write to a document window), jpg (again, just write an image), and pdf. PDF is the tough one because I just can't figure out how to feed a PDF mime type into a browser window and have the browser bring up either a plugin or helper app to deal with it -- document.open("text/pdf") and the like in javascript just don't work.