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Travians: Sims meets Cultures, with Ajax
Steve Mattison let us know about a new AJAX game has been released by the makers of that old popular PHP-based village building game Travian. This one is more like Sims meets Cultures, and it is call ....... read more
Fri,
12 Dec 2008
Cappuccino 0.6 Released
The Cappucinno team has a new release, 0.6 that include:
New language addition to Objective-J: The @accessors keyword to eliminate the boiler plate code of writing setters and getters. Read more ab ....... read more
Fri,
12 Dec 2008
The fundamental problems with CSS3
Matt Wilcox thinks that there are fundamental problems with CSS3 and he shared his thoughts. He starts by giving us some history of CSS and then gets into the meat:
Why the Cascade is no longer eno ....... read more
Fri,
12 Dec 2008
More JavaScript Inheritance; Prototypes vs. Closures
Steffen Rusitschka has a nice detailed post on inheritance with JavaScript, different ways you can go, and side effects of the decision.
From,
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
var A = function(&# ....... read more
Fri,
12 Dec 2008
SmartMarkUp: Universal Markup Editor
Joseph Woods of PHPCow sent us a note about SmartMarkUP, a universal markup editor :
SmartMarkUP is a lightweight and powerful JavaScript library that allows you to turn any textarea into a fancy ....... read more
Thu,
11 Dec 2008
CSS Spriting without background-image
Jennifer Semter has published an article on CSS spriting, and a cross-browser technique that uses divs, anchors, and clipping to get the same effect as background image clipping. The reason for the ne ....... read more
Thu,
11 Dec 2008
IE8 December Release and Accessibility
The IE8 team let their partners know about a December "Partner Build" that contains the following changes since IE8b2:
Accessibility-ARIA
ARIA attribute names containing dashes, such as ?aria-checked? ....... read more
Thu,
11 Dec 2008
You Leaked on my JavaScript!
As soon as I read Johns post on JavaScript Language Abstractions I knew that it would draw a lot of chatter and fuzz. John started with:
Pyjamas, GWT, and Objective-J all hinge around a central c ....... read more
Tue,
09 Dec 2008
Appcelerator Titanium: Breathing AIR for the Open Web
The Appcelerator folks have a big announcement today. They are announcing an early release of Appcelerator Titanium which is easiest if you think of it as an "Open Web version of Adobe AIR" in that it ....... read more
Tue,
09 Dec 2008
YUI Library, YUI Doc, and Github
Eric Miraglia and our friends at Yahoo! have announced YUI Doc, "a python-based documentation tool that generates API documentation for JavaScript code. YUI Doc was developed by Adam Moore, one of th ....... read more
Tue,
09 Dec 2008
WaveMaker IDE offers deployment to Amazon
WaveMaker, the IDE that Dojo helped build (with a ton of work from the team) has added support for cloud deployment to Amazon:
The biggest problem with cloud development platforms to date has been ....... read more
Wed,
10 Dec 2008
Native Client: Open ActiveX?
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 ....... read more
Mon,
08 Dec 2008
The IE 6 Equation. Finally some math to mask the pain
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).
....... read more
Mon,
08 Dec 2008
iPod Engraving Gallery and Leopard.Next DHTML
I noticed the new iPod Engraving Gallery that is a nice use of Coherent to show a slick UI with engraving suggestions.
I was also talking to a friend that has leopard beta bits and he was playing ....... read more
Mon,
01 Dec 2008
AbstractCanvas: HTML Canvas and Java2D in one fell swoop
Rodrigo Reyes has announced a new project called AbstractCanvas, a GWT project that sits on top of HTML Canvas and Java2D.
The same code can thus run in the browser, or on the server.
You can then wr ....... read more
Mon,
01 Dec 2008
Kojax? Huh?
Mary Jo Foley has an article called Move over, Ajax. Here comes Microsoft?s ?Kojax?. The thing is, I don't get what it actually is:
Kojax is a mobile development platform, according to my sources, ....... read more
Mon,
01 Dec 2008
HTML 5: Integrating HTTP authentication with HTML forms
Mark Pilgrim has a new This Week in HTML 5 that features a bit new proposal for integrating HTTP authentication with HTML forms.
A common use for forms is user authentication. To indicate that an H ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
Implementing super in JavaScript
Erik Arvidsson seems to be having fun going through exersizes getting JavaScript to do something his way. The latest little foray is Using catch-alls to implement super.
Firstly, catch-alls are the ab ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
S5 Presentations with CSS Transitions
Shawn Lauriat hacked CSS Transition support into the presentation app S5. Now he has posted slides from one of his talks that uses the functionality.
See how you can add fun (or annoying ;) transition ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
XBug: New JavaScript Debugger
Greg Salisbury has released a new JavaScript debugger called XBug that "currently runs on the Windows XP/Vista platform, but, it can also be used to debug webpages on Windows or Linux servers. It's c ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008