Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
to be fair to xara... if I open an email in MS Office 365 Outlook and I click on the option to view in a browser, it opens it in IE
this despite MS's own exhortations never to use IE but use Edge; surely they at least could do better
I use Firefox as default... Edge as default browser does not apper to fix this IE issue with Outlook 365, not that I would want Edge as default...
The legacy of IE ia all around us unfortunately...
i am fair to Xara. It offers a WYSIWYG experience that fails with MSIE. IE is buggy for CSS and rife with security holes.

The number of Third Parties that are blocking MSIE access is growing; this impacts Xara Widgets.
The version MiniWeb HTTP server Xara uses is somewhat stale too: https://sourceforge.net/projects/min...s/miniweb/0.8/ suggests v0.8.19 is 2007.

MS Outlook was a MS hijack rewrapped, just like MS Excel (and probably everything else). MS's codebase is somewhat legacy-bound and vast; Xara has no such excuse.

All recent changes the the Desktop applications have been fudges around the edges as I think Camelot is now a Black Box to Xara's developers. The move to Xara Cloud, using newer technologies, is acting in the same fashion but at least the Preview is no longer bound to MSIE as you have a click link to your rendered site that is actually being presented through a full web service.

What I can use Fenix for:

  • Local viewing in any browser to http://127.0.1:Port so it is very fast with no upload time. No SSH as it is all local.
  • One-clicking for a tunnel website with link like https://colored-pandabear-99.loca.lt (P.S. if you click through it should just 404). A secure site you can share with a client. Delete or switch local content or simply switch off.
  • Using same tunnel website to access non-web content. Can be used to up/download anything.
  • Using as a Markdown server.
  • Collaborating with other developers.
  • Showcasing work to others.
  • Using for ad-hoc personal cloud storage when travelling.
  • Digging deeper into development issues with the FENIX Request Browser.

Other products are available.

I chose Fenix for its deftness and my need for a Markdown server.

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