Well, it's right around this time every year that I start to get excited about the upcoming Looney Tunes release, and this year is no exception. Read the rest of this entry ...
The Laszlo blog announced yesterday that OpenLaszlo will use and contribute to Dojo. For the uninitiated, Dojo is one of the many DHTML/Ajax toolkits that help DHTML developers get their work done. Since OpenLaszlo is moving towards supporting more runtimes (other than Flash) and DHTML is one of those "runtimes", this sounds like a great idea (rather than have the Laszlo team write their own toolkit from scratch). The fact that they'll be bringing their contributions back to Dojo sounds like a win-win.
Via Arve. Opera releases the first Beta for Version 9 of their browser today. Big news from my perspective is support for the audio object. Read the rest of this entry ...
Here's the latest news in the world of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Read the rest of this entry ...
The Mozilla folks are wrapping up discussion on how Firefox 2 user interface will change. Some of the things I like, but I still don't see my biggest pet peeve about the Firefox User Interface (UI) addressed: I absolutely hate the way that Firefox 1.5 squeezes the Search Bar next to the Address Bar like some inconsequential widget. For me, it's one of most heavily-used things in the user interface. This entry will show you how to tweak the user interface (sometimes called "chrome"). You don't need any heavy programming skills for this. Basically you need to be comfortable renaming files, unzipping and zipping up directories and editing text files. Read the rest of this entry ...