JDK (1.6.0) not recognized in Firefox
After reloading my machine and installing all the JDK's I use (1.3, 1.4, 1.6) the latest JDK wasn't recognized in Firefox 2 though it was found and worked in IE. The Java control panel was set correctly and displayed JDK 1.6 as being active for IE and Firefox. The solution (based on this post) was to close Firefox, rename npoji600.dll to xxx_npoji600.dll (in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins) and restart Firefox. Problem solved.
Dinosaur report
As mentioned during the Lotusphere 2007 blogging BOF it can be hard to keep up with all the blogs. One thing you could do is use FeedDemon (as I do) and look forward to the next release which include "Dinosaur Reports" that is reports that show the blogs that hasn't been updated in a while. Nice.
AJAX and character sets
Being from a country that uses characters outside the ASCII range we are often times struggling with character set issues and today was no different. Well it was... Today I found the solution that has been eluding me for a long time.
We have been having issues with national characters in content being returned in AJAX calls for documents sent using the text/plain MIME-type (e.g. JSON). Apparently the XMLHTTPRequest used on most platforms assumes that the content it receives is in UTF-8 so if you're having issues with encoding check the charset. Changing the character set in the servlet generating the data (Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8) and on the page (using a meta-tag) solved the issue.