Looks like Google Chat has implemented sound notifications. DownloadSquad reports that "Oddly, you need to have Flash enabled in order to hear the ping". Not exactly odd to me, as I mentioned before, there's no nice cross-browser way to do sound in the browser currently without using Flash. Kudos to Macromedia/Adobe for being so widely deployed and useful in this context. If nimble browser development camps like Mozilla could follow Opera's lead on implementing HTML5's Audio interface this would be a Good Thing.
The IEBlog just posted videos from MIX06 (Microsoft conference in March 2006). I've watched two of the hour-long videos. Here are my take-away summaries. 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 ...