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I'm running Chorme and do see a black screen as well. Works in IE though.

Thanks for the Chrome fixes. I use that browser for personal surfing at work

While on the subject of Chrome/c9 bugs, here's a weird one. Pasting text with newlines (ie: "foo /n bar") into an empty post editing box in Chrome wraps it in the following styling, rendering it invisible:

<p>

 <div id="_mcePaste" 

  style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; 

	overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">

 foo

 </div>

 <div id="_mcePaste" 

  style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; 

	overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">

 bar

 </div> 

</p>

It only happens if the editor is empty.

PS: The auto resizing of the editor when you add enough lines to trigger it is really annoying, especially when editing an existing post as it doesn't expand until you try to scroll down

But you shouldn't have to. Cut/Copy/Paste on a textbox context menu has been a standard feature in Windows for almost 15 years. If MS expects Silverlight LOB apps to compete with desktop apps or even plain HTML forms they need to include stuff like this by default.

That text editor is neat. Too bad Silverlight doesn't support printing or right click menus.

You can almost see the bile rising in Bill's throat as he talks about Lotus 1-2-3 besting Multiplan. But he got his revenge with Excel, didn't he

1982 (or 1983) was about when we got out first IBM PC at home. I can vaguely remember trying to use either Multiplan or the original version of Word that used the same UI. I failed.

Yeah, I find it odd that MS is pushing SL for LOB apps when it's missing such basic amenities.

It looks like a cheesy 80's metal band logo. Then again, it was the 80's.

Heh. I started that thread. I left the "alert me when someone posts" feature on and still get a few "me too"s a month in my inbox.

I'm enjoying this series, but could you pleeeeaase fix the aspect ratio on the non-widescreen content? Pleeese? Pretty Pleeeese?

I'd rather not have to see another 31 episodes of Bill with a fat head.

There's something horribly wrong with the audio.