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Detecting advanced CSS features
I decided to do some fancy typography in my résumé, but I wanted to have a sane fallback for browsers that don’t support the latest features. I have my name rotated 90 degrees using CSS3 transforms, but simply applying the … Continue reading
jQuery selector escaping
jQuery selectors are powerful and simple to use, until you have attribute values (including ids and classes) that have funny characters. I wrote a plugin adds a simple function $.escape that will escape any special characters. For example if I … Continue reading
A brighter future for mobile applications?
Since the Chrome OS announcement the other day I’ve been thinking more about what a world with rich enough web APIs to support all general purpose applications might look like. I’m not sure that it’ll happen, but it sounds like … Continue reading
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Tagged android, apple, chrome, google, iphone, javascript, mobile, palm
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Not solving the wrong problem
I like a great deal of what Google does for the open web. They sponsor standards work, they are working on an open source browser, they are building documentation on the state of the web for web developers. It’s all … Continue reading
Three Months of ActionScript
I’ve been working largely in ActionScript 3 for the past three months. After spending four years working primarily in JavaScript I didn’t expect to encounter too many problems with her cousin. That expectation was pretty well borne out. I was … Continue reading
Twitter Translation
My friend Britt mentioned today that he was about to launch twitter.jp. How exciting! But I don’t understand Japanese. If only I could easily translate all those tweets in languages I don’t understand. I played around with Google’s new AJAX … Continue reading
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Tagged firefox, google, greasemonkey, javascript, translation, twitter, userscript
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Google AJAX APIs outside the browser
Google just announced their new Language API this morning. Unfortunately their API is another one of their AJAX APIs – that are designed to be used from JavaScript in web pages. These APIs are pretty cool for building client-side web … Continue reading
Songbird 0.3
Last week we release Songbird 0.3. It’s the release I’ve been working on since I joined the Pioneers of the Inevitable in January. There are a whole lot of improvements in there to various parts of the application – the database engine was rewritten to be faster and more extensible, we added tabs to the browser, etc – but that’s not what’s really cool. What’s really cool is the new Web API we’ve developed. Continue reading
