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Firebug Lite 1.2; Now with improved lite-ness

25 July 2008, 6:51 am

Steve Souders gave a talk at OSCON yesterday where he demonstrated the new Firebug Lite 1.2. Today Firebug Lite 1.2 was released. This new version was built by Azer Koçulu, creator of pi.debugger. Azer joined the Firebug Working Group, morphed the GUI to look Firebug, and added it to the Firebug ... read more

HTML 5 Linking all around the horn

25 July 2008, 5:51 am

Eric Meyer has been working on an HTML 5 linking proposal and has put together a demonstration of his proposal. His linking demo shows how you could put href="..." on paragraphs, table rows, cells, and many other places. This demo is done with simple JavaScript for now, with the obvious hope that br... read more

Intersections and SVG objects

25 July 2008, 2:01 am

Kevin Lindsey has a suite of tests that show various intersection routines for SVG objects: Each link allows you to manipulate the shapes listed. All intersections between the two shapes are updated as you manipulate the shapes. Some intersections display additional information when the shapes do n... read more

An Adobe evangelist gives his opinion on Silverlight

24 July 2008, 11:21 pm

I do NOT work for Adobe. I do NOT work for Microsoft. I do not work for Borland. I do not work for Oracle. I do not work for any competing manufacturer of any kind. I am Joe Developer. In the end, it’s folks like ME that will decide which technology survives and which dies - simply by our choices... read more

Open Web Foundation: David Recordon at OSCON

24 July 2008, 9:24 am

David Recordon has just started his OSCON talk, embedded above, on supporting the Open Web. He is announcing the Open Web Foundation, a new attempt to have a place for us to incubate, license, and build community around specifications, protocols, and more. I posted about this on my blog as I am an... read more

Getting around the blocking of script

24 July 2008, 5:15 am

Stoyan Stefanov has a post that discusses the issues with browsers blocking on script tags. He discusses the general problem and how YUI has a helper for it by using onreadystatechange and onload: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var myHandler = { onSuccess: function()... read more

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