Update
by Tim Burnham (nonesuch)
OK, new version out! I decided to be a little less crazy and try a more traditional layout. I don't think it suffers any for it. Thanks to johndrinkwater for his very helpful suggestions.
Oh, and it works in IE now. I'm amazing ;).
Major changes:
Big Blue Bar (BBB) moved to top (duh)
Pure CSS menus implemented (many thanks to A List Apart!)
This text box is now variable sized, so it should look better at higher resolutions (I think...)
All font sizes converted to em so font scaling works properly in inferior browsers
Converted to XHTML Strict (I always forget the Doctype declaration)
Demo site layout
by Tim Burnham (nonesuch)
Well, there's not much to see here, but I just decided to try my hand at a Haiku layout. This is static, but it can be easily converted to a CMS, as it is written in pure CSS. Ignore the links at the bottom...they are supposed to be menus, much like the current site, but upside-down pure CSS menus were making me cry, so I gave up for now.
My central concept in this layout is to be "different" without alienating users: most sites are top-left or top-center oriented, this site is bottom-right oriented. Haiku will turn the OS landscape on its head, so its web site can do the same :-).
Virtual Capitalism
by Kevin Field on 2006-06-12
A new newsletter's out! Sorry for the delay - Michael did actually have an editorial for me awhile ago, but I was away in Vancouver for a month, unable to edit it. Anyway...
In this issue, Tentacula shares his experience with BeOS under VMWare, and Michael makes some controversial declarations about capitalism. (Well, maybe they're only controversial where I come from. ;) ) Enjoy.
Haiku Bounties and a new intern!
by Michael Phipps on 2006-05-29
I have received some questions about the "Haiku Bounties" website and I wanted to answer them here. It is run by a gentleman who has been a good friend to Haiku for a long time now. I have every confidence that he is trying to do the right thing for the Haiku community and that he will be upfront and honest with the money and that you can trust his word.
Like Haiku Bounties, we are also converting money into developers. :-) We have hired our second employee. He is a student from a local (to me) university who has worked on the Linux kernel and has done some networking work. He is very interested in Haiku and will be starting work shortly on the network stack. He will be working through the summer months (June, July and August).
No Cash For You
by Michael Phipps on 2006-04-25
I regret to tell everyone that Google turned down Haiku for the Summer of Code. Why? I don't know. I asked, they didn't answer. We were in plenty of time, I made sure to point them to the web site, to notice our source tree being public and our not-for-profit status.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, especially when this seemed like a slam dunk, to me, but it is what it is. I had hoped to have the network stack and the USB stack as projects; that would have brought us much closer to release.
New Newsletter
by Kevin Field on 2006-04-04
The latest has hit the whitespace. You know where to find it.
yellowTAB and Haiku developers collaborate on Intel Extreme Graphics driver
by Axel Dörfler on 2006-03-26
Stephan Aßmus writes: "This driver covers the integrated graphics chips in Intel chipsets such as the i865G or i915GM, obviously an important driver to have. When I received the news that yellowTAB already had such a driver in development, I asked Bernd Korz, CEO of yellowTAB, if he could imagine to collaborate on this driver for the common benefit. He liked the idea and since yellowTAB had not signed an NDA to make the driver, there was nothing in the way for making this happen. yellowTAB donates their driver for integration into the Haiku source tree where further development will take place. Personally, I hope that more of such collaboration will happen in the future! Thanks to everyone involved."