Good friend – and fellow Mozillian – Chris Blizzard has just released a long-time “hack in the evenings” project of his: Whoisi. I think the best “one line” description that I’ve heard for it, thus far is “a wiki-like Friendfeed.” It’s quite fun – sort of an identity service combined with a wiki combined with […]
Comment · Posted: June 26th, 2008
Visit: New CSS Features in Firefox 3 David Baron, a Mozilla developer, has a write-up on the new CSS features that are available in Firefox 3. There’s a mix of additions – everything from CSS 2.0 and 2.1 features to new additions that are tracking CSS 3. Some of my favorite additions include: The CSS […]
Comment · Posted: June 25th, 2008
Kind of last moment but I just got word that PPK (the creator of the excellent Quirksmode.org) is in Boston and looking to meet up with local developers. If you’re interested we’ll be at The Pour House at about 7pm (today, June 25th) and you’re welcome! If you’re coming please reply to this email or […]
Comment · Posted: June 25th, 2008
A quick bookmarklet that I made for Asa Dotzler. If you’ve ever visited a tweet, on Twitter, directly, and had wished to immediately reply to its author you probably found it to be quite convoluted (typically this is the case if you subscribe to services like Summize or Tweetscan. It usually involves copying the username, […]
Comment · Posted: June 24th, 2008
Visit: BBC Removing Microformat Support After performing a number of usability studies (both on average users and users with screen readers) the BBC found that using the Microformat convention of <abbr title=”…”>…</abbr> to denote items like dates negatively impacted usability. This is a huge blow to the Microformats community. While this concern has been discussed […]
Comment · Posted: June 23rd, 2008
It was fascinating to watch the unveiling of Firefox 3 last week. I’m pleased that, in some small way, my contributions helped to bring this browser out the door. First 24 hours: 8.3 million downloads, 69 downloads/second, 20 Gb/s Peak Transfer While I generally focus on issues tangential to JavaScript code, at Mozilla – like […]
Comment · Posted: June 23rd, 2008
This evening I was playing around with the idea of profiling jQuery applications – trying to find a convenient way to completely analyze all the code that is being executed in your application. I’ve come up with a plugin that you can inject into a jQuery site that you own and see how the performance […]
Comment · Posted: June 16th, 2008
One thing that I absolutely adore is the sheer embeddability of JavaScript. It’s a (comparatively) simple language that is fiercely flexible. I tend to liken JavaScript to water – alone it’s painfully simple but it can take the form of its container – and mixing it with anything enhances its flavor. Since JavaScript, alone, is […]
Comment · Posted: June 15th, 2008
