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Native Client: Open ActiveX?

Blogs - 29 days ago

Google has released a cool research project called Native Client, a new browser plugin (how many plugins now? gears, toolbar, lively [for awhile], earth, …) that allows you to compile with a special GCC compiler down to x86 that can run in the browser. IE is missing so far, but remember this read more

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Massively parallel crowd sourced JavaScript app server; SETI for JS

Blogs - 30 days ago

Malte Ubl is having a lot of fun here :) He has created a "massively parallel crowd-sourced JavaScript app server cloud" a.k.a. SETI for running JavaScript code.
This is how it works:

When a user makes a request to the site
...the request is handled by a Google App Engine appl read more

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Open Web Podcast 6: Sizzling Open FX

Blogs - 30 days ago

re-posted from the Open Web Podcast blog
I have moved to Mozilla along with my long time friend cohort and collaborator, Ben Galbraith. He joins us on this podcast, along with Alex, who joins us as a Noogler.
You can download the podcast directly (OGG format too), or subscribe to the seri read more

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pyQuery: Same API, but with a snake.

Blogs - 30 days ago

jQuery came first, but then we have seen others such as pQuery.
Now we have pyQuery which brings the same great taste API to Python. The author Olivier Lauzanne explains:

yquery allows you to make jquery queries on xml documents. The API is as much as possible the similar to jquery. read more

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The IE 6 Equation. Finally some math to mask the pain

Blogs - 30 days ago

That is the equation that Jeremy Keith shares with us on his article for this years 24ways. He is discussing IE6, which he sets to the variable of $web_designer_nemesis (variable used to equal NN4).
He looks at the sliding scale of support for the browser:


Block IE6 users from read more

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JSOS: jQuery based desktop

Blogs - 32 days ago

There have been plenty of JavaScript desktop in the browsers of the years (ah WebOS!).
James Luterek has posted about the latest jQuery based desktop environment.

I started creating an operating system like user interface in JavaScript. I had intended to use it for the admin sectio read more

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Mozilla, Zazzle, and UIZE

Blogs - 32 days ago

Mozilla is big on tinkering–making things your own. They recently released a marketplace for their community to upload its own shirt designs. But because they based it on the Ajax-heavy Zazzle platform, consumers can customize the shirts in a variety of ways. We thought this made for a good o read more

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MooTools and Sizzle

Blogs - 32 days ago

Valerio Proietti has written a thoughtful post on why MooTools won’t use Sizzle (and tries to argue why other libraries shouldn’t).
He cites the advantages of having one code base that your project can tweak at will, and competition being a good thing to move things forward:
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Web Workers: Tweaked and out in Firefox 3.1b2

Blogs - 32 days ago

Ben Turner posted on Web Workers being available in the upcoming beta2 using the latest spec:

First, we’ve moved away from the old Gears-esque API that we had in Alpha 2 (see previous post) in favor of the emerging Web Workers standard. We’ve been hard at work with folks from Google, App read more

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Freckle: Time tracking with style

Blogs - 33 days ago

Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy are back with another web site, this time Freckle, a new take on time tracking.
Thomas posted about it on his site and shared that it uses an early build of scripty2 which lead me to peak around on GitHub. It looks nice indeed.
You can see the evidence of Script.a read more

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