Posted in Mozilla, Tech on April 4th, 2005 No Comments »
I’m not sure how or why I did not see this sooner, but in firefox, setting accessibility.tabfocus in about:config to 7 allows tabbing into select elements, removing my biggest annoyance with the Mac UI.
Posted in Tech on March 15th, 2005 No Comments »
After attending tantek’s panel on the elements of meaningful xhtml at my first sxsw, I felt obligated to add xfn tags to my links to other people’s sites and blogs. Despite my somewhat personal disgreement with polluting rel tags in (x)html, instead of just adding a custom dtd or separate namespace instead.
Posted in Dojo, JavaScript, Tech on March 12th, 2005 No Comments »
Our first dojo profile package has been released. Basically it is the Dojo wrapper for xmlhttp requests, combined with support for using the back button and getting stateful urls while using this technique.
Posted in JavaScript, Tech on February 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
tantek has suggested the name cadex for responsive web applications. I can live with that. It certainly beats the proposed alternative.
Posted in Tech on February 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
mobile pc has a very fun look at the Top 100 Gadgets of All Time
Posted in Tech on February 16th, 2005 No Comments »
Adam Rifkin provides an outstanding recap of January’s 106 Miles
Posted in RSS, Tech on February 9th, 2005 No Comments »
Kevin Laws asks “Is RSS for real, or is it today’s Social Networking?” in his article rss – really something special?. The article itself is an excellent summary of the current RSS business landscape. Of course, social networking is nowhere close to reaching it’s potential… I’ll talk more about that when I have something interesting […]
Posted in Tech on February 8th, 2005 No Comments »
Mark Jen was fired by Google recently due in part to comments made on his blog, as mentioned in my entry complaining to complain. Tonight I had the chance to meet him at the latest 106 Miles event. He seems to be a pretty nice guy, and dumbfounded by how quickly his comments caught fire […]
Posted in JavaScript, Tech on February 8th, 2005 No Comments »
Google unleashed Google Maps today and did a pretty amazing job. Of course, there are always people that just do not get it. Yes, I know that Python is a cleaner language for development. But if you want to write responsive web applications, you need JavaScript, the most widely deployed, misunderstood, functional-like language in the […]
Posted in Dojo, SVG, Tech on February 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
Alex wrote a rant about our struggles with adobe svg, http requests, and closures.