When I was doing an interview with John Resig for the Open Web Podcast, he mentioned that the redesign of jQuery.com had a lot of people talking, and it seems like people have strong feelings about the Rock Star for whatever reason.Ignoring the style, the redesign is more than just that:The entirety of the site […]
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John Resig posted on degrading script tags and adding functionality to <script> so you can add a src attribute and a body of code that will be executed one the external script loaded error free:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: <script src=”some-lib.js”> var foo = use_some_lib(); foo.do.stuff();</script> To make this all work, John shows us a jquery aware version that detects […]
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qooxdoo 0.8 has been released and it appears to have a lot of big changes. Andreas Ecker told us a little about it:While at first qooxdoo 0.8 looks like a minor jump in version numberover the previous 0.7.3, the actual changes are huge. In particular theUI capabilities as well as the developer tool chain were […]
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I have seen the GWT team working very hard indeed on GWT 1.5, and they must be very happy to see the final release shipped and complete:GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of improvements, about four hundred issues if you’re counting. We’re also happy that one of those is issue 168, […]
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We talked a few months ago about something new we’re doing at the Ajax Experience this year: the “Framework Summit.” Basically, we’re providing space for Prototype, jQuery, and Dojo to hold their own half-day events on-site, and these events are free and open to the general public.Since we announced the summit, the frameworks have […]
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GWT has long had a project that aimed to give rich support for Google APIs called GALGWT, or “Google API Libraries for Google Web Toolkit”.This project has stepped up to higher gear recently, and we have seen the GALGWT 1.0 release candidate appear.What is in GALGWT?The project is a collection of libraries that provide Java […]
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As part of the Open Web Advocacy work I’ve started with Dion and others at Google, one of my goals right now is to help increase awareness and support around doing 2-D/vector graphics on the open web. This includes tools such as the Canvas tag, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics, an XML markup language for vector […]
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I met with a colleague recently who wants to take his project and create a standard on the web that actually gets adopted. We talked for a long time, and when we finished up I pointed him at a paper that had a huge impact on me, called “In Praise of Evolvable Systems” by Clay […]
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I recently ran across Inkscape, an open source very high-quality graphics editor that can output SVG that I’m blown away by. Even better, it runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. From the Inkscape website:[Inkscape is] an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C […]
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