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Monday, October 20th, 2008
jslibs is a way to use JavaScript on the command line using Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey. It provides wrappers for a lot of common libraries normally accessed through PHP or Python like image manipulation, packing or sound, animation and video through ogg vorbis and openGL. You also get access to SQLite Databases with a special wrapper.
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Category: JavaScript
Back in March, we posted about Ian Smith’s newest project, TaffyDB, the lightweight JavaScript library that acts as thin data layer inside Web 2.0 and Ajax applications. Ian contacted us to let us know about a new tutorial that he posted which provides step-by-step instructions on how to best implement TaffyDB: TaffyDB extracts the “hard Read the rest…
Category: Opera
Ars discussed the new Opera initiative MAMA, the study that only 4.13% of the web is standards-compliant whatever that means :) It is cool to see Opera doing this kind of work, with “Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA), a tool that crawls the web and indexes the markup and scripting data from approximately 3.5 Read the rest…
Rusty Klophaus has launched Stitcho.com, an internet notification platform that works on both Windows and Mac (including support for Growl). “Using Stitcho, your website can send real-time noti?cations directly to a user’s desktop, even when their web browser is closed.” Rusty told us: Stitcho is different from the other Javascript-to-Growl bridges that you have reviewed. Read the rest…
Category: Comet
Richard Jones has started an interesting series to talk about scaling comet web applications using MochiWeb: In this series I will detail what I found out empirically about how mochiweb performs with lots of open connections, and show how to build a comet application using mochiweb, where each mochiweb connection is registered with a router Read the rest…
Category: MooTools
Tom Occhino has released Mootools 1.2.1, a backwards compatible release that also features: Element.Properties.html (element.set(‘html’, html);) now works even with select and table element’s in Internet Explorer. Element:clone is also now faster than ever, and retains the values of form elements being cloned. A lot of work has also been done to fix some bugs Read the rest…
Category: Java
It really is plugin week isn’t it. We had Flash and Silverlight, so it was time for Java to pop its head up from the shadows, and that is what happened with the production release of Java 6 Update 10. It has to be one of the worst version names, but a solid plugin release Read the rest…
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Category: JavaScript
Stoyan Stefanov of Yahoo! has published a nice article on JavaScript’s class-less objects. This is published on JavaRanch, so it talks to the Java community, and uses that lense to explain the differences. He delves into: Constructor functions Function objects and prototype property Inheritance via the prototype Inheritance by copying properties Crockford’s beget object: < Read the rest…
Category: Testing
Jack is a new JavaScript mocking framework coming out of Bekk in Norway. A lot of the RSpec talent is there too, so they know their testing! Jack features: Set expectations for number of calls and argument constraints Specify mock implementations for specific expectation scenarios Create mock objects with a list of stub functions Reports Read the rest…
Amongst the reactions to Google’s release of Chrome was the developer’s howl of pain at the thought of another major browser on which to do compatibility testing. Google’s generally asserts that Safari compatibility results should be the same as Chrome’s, but Nathan Hammond stumbled across a divergence that he finds troubling and which Google shows Read the rest…
Category: Dojo
Bill Higgins of IBM Rational has written up some thoughts on componentization and packaging for Ajax applications based on work that his team did on the Rational Jazz platform. Some of what he built was: A nice component model based on OSGi bundles and the Dojo module system Request-time “building” of many fine-grained JavaScript files Read the rest…
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Category: Adobe
This is the week of the plugin. First we had the launch of Silverlight 2, and then, quickly on the back of that we get Adobe Flash 10 at the same time as the entire Creative Suite 4 (which has great Flash authoring tools of course). One of the security features in Flash 10 is Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript
Blackbird, G. Scott Olson’s JavaScript logging library, truly has a catchy slogan. The slogan “Say hello to Blackbird and ‘goodbye’ to alert()” definitely captures what the Blackbird library aims to do; make logging messages in JavaScript extremely easy. And setup is very easy. By incorporating the following lines of code, you’ve now added the ability Read the rest…
The video above by Ron Brinkmann is his mockup of a non-euclidean browser UI which looks a touch like the magnifying glass tool on the iPhone, and aims to give you your data in a readable way, while still showing the larger context: The reason why I think an interface like this can be superior Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
An interesting top 12 list has been published, on using Javascript to fix 12 common browser headaches: Setting Equal Heights (jQuery example: $(“#col1, #col2”).equalizeCols();) IE6 PNG Alpha Transperancy support Changing CSS Classes in JavaScript Browser selectors in CSS ($(‘html’).addClass($.browser);) min-/max- height & width support Center Elements Vertically / Horizontally Display Q tags in Internet Explorer Read the rest…
Isn’t it great that a browser point release these days adds so many features? We are starting to see this from Firefox, Opera, WebKit and others, and it is exciting! The Firefox 3.1 beta 1 release has a slew of features that developers have been craving: Geolocation The labs team got Geode out there, and Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
