Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Aaron Boodman created Greasemonkey back in the day. He also worked on Gears. And most recently he created Chrome Extensions. I have a funny feeling that folks were pinging him daily “hey, when ya gunna give me Greasemonkey on Chrome” and he just delivered: One thing that got lost in the commotion of the extensions Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Category: Announcements, Framework
A Googler and a Facebooker were in a pub discussing the complexities of building out a rich modern Web application. There are a ton of dependencies, and you need to be proficient in multiple languages and tools (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL/NoSQL, backend languages, build tools, etc). Well, they may not have been in a pub.... Read the rest...
Category: Announcements, SVG
SVG-Edit is a nifty open source editing web app that uses SVG and doesn't need a server-side: The SVG-Edit team recently announced SVG-Edit 2.4, code named Arbelos. New features include: - Raster Images - Group/Ungroup - Zoom - Layers - Curved Paths - UI Localization - Wireframe Mode - Change Background - Draggable Dialogs - Read the rest...
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Category: Editorial
The following post is a reprint from my personal blog. It is editorial in nature and even delves into random politics. I apologise. You can deal with it though :) Steve Jobs didn't hold back when talking about Google and Adobe. That is great. Life is so much more fun when people speak their mind. Read the rest...
Category: Browsers
What can you do if you want to enable a fullscreen experience on the Web? You can't. Or, use Flash. Some claim that you shouldn't offer this ability as it is a security liability. Someone can put a fullscreen view that tricks the user into giving it information. However, as much as I think user Read the rest...
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Category: Examples, Geo
, Google
, JavaScript
, Mapping
, Yahoo!
As part of an upcoming article on geo location I am putting together a few Geo Toys for myself and here is the first one. Addmap.js is a JavaScript that analyses an elements text content, finds geographical locations and links them to Google Maps. It also adds a map preview and a list of the Read the rest...
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Category: Browsers, Canvas
, Performance
The Freeciv.net crew has benchmarked a path in their canvas game. It is one data point, and tests more than just Canvas itself because a lot of code is running in the game. Thus, it ends up testing the union of a particular JavaScript path and the rendering of the canvas. Here are the results: Read the rest...
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Román Cortés is having a lot of fun with CSS tricks these days. He just built an example rolling CSS coke can that uses background-attachment, background-position, and a few other tricks to get the effect. No fancy CSS3 needed here! The key pieces used: PLAIN TEXT CSS: p { background-image: Read the rest...
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
I love programmers like Alex Miltsev. He won the Jetpack 0.5 content by prototyping access to the GPU from JavaScript! Alex’s work is an alpha-prototype that shows the feasibility of the project and it requires a custom build of Firefox to use — it’s not easy to demo. However, the code sample below shows how Read the rest...
Category: Appcelerator, Apple
Appcelerator has published an interesting study on the Apple Tablet. You know, the iPhone OS based one that we will Steve will show us on Wednesday. The study asks some interesting questions revolving around the development side of the tablet. Are developers going to develop for it? What are they looking for? What are they Read the rest...
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Category: Mozilla
Sometimes you need to compromise, but at others you need to lead and take a stance. Our politicians do far too much via polls, and I often find myself wishing for more leadership. I could start talking about Obama and the healthcare issue in the US..... but this is a technical blog so I won't Read the rest...
Category: Fun
This is a Friday post that happens to show up on Monday ;) 2010 will have a lot of Web based OS products, including the much anticipated Chrome OS. Why wait for that when you can use Windows 3.11: Browser Edition? Or, check out webOS on mobile, Jollicloud on Netbook, and many others.
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
At Google I/O the team showed a demo of YouTube running video right in the browser, instead of in the rectangle of Flash. Now, that URL takes you to the beta, which you can opt-in too. I am torn on what to write on this showcase though.... so, especially since it is Friday, here are Read the rest...
Category: JavaScript, Library
John-David Dalton has released Fusebox, a library that allows you to sandbox natives: Extending JavaScript natives gives you the power to customize the language to fit your needs. You can add convenience methods like "hello world".capitalize() or implement missing functionality like [1,2,3].indexOf(2) in JScript. The problem is that frameworks / libraries / third-party scripts may Read the rest...
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Category: HTML, JavaScript
There have been a few HTML builder APIs out there, but Ed Spencer (new lead of Ext JS) has put together something that looks and feels similar to Haml from the Ruby side. Jaml lets you write HTML like this: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: div( h1("Some title"), p("Some exciting paragraph text"), Read the rest...
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Nice work Firebug team for announcing Firebug 1.5, a great release that fixes many bugs and adds great features: Mike Radcliffe’s Inspector. A key feature, now solid as a rock, Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko’s expanded and refined Net panel, with accurate timings, Steve Roussey’s reworking of HTML editing and entity support, Kevin Decker’s CSS and Style Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
Hello Everyone,
Here\'s the situation:
two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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[div]I\'m trying to set a php session variable from a radio button. The idea is that a jquery function is called...
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