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Stuart was CTO for Application Consulting EMEA at EMC Consulting until October 2009, now blogging at http://stuartpreston.net

Windows 7 Beta and the National Rail Enquiries Gadget

Well it’s only been a few days since Windows 7 Beta became publicly available and I’ve already received quite a few messages from people attempting to run the National Rail Enquiries Vista Gadget on it and being presented with the following instead of the gadget:

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I’ve attached to this post a zip file containing a refreshed gadget until National Rail Enquiries update the gadget themselves.

For those technically minded, the problem seems to be resolved by removing ;charset=UTF-8 from the following line found in each html file within the gadget – which lets the rest of the script execute correctly: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

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Stuart Preston's Blog said:

EDIT: (12th January 2009) – If you are running Windows 7 Beta then head to this post for an updated version.

January 12, 2009 12:37
 

Windows 7 Beta – Initial Observations « ee61re - Fiddling with IT until it works said:

January 12, 2009 19:58

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