It’s official! Apple took my $99 and I made another $130 selling an ssd, and now I can afford to write applications and submit them to the iTunes App Store! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Time to start reading up on PhoneGap again. Appropiately, I am writing this post from my iPhone.
Tag Archives: JavaScript
Albatross flies again with latest VLC builds!
For those of you still anxiously awaiting a working version of Albatross, we are one big step close! The latest test builds of VLC 0.9.9 have fixed on-the-fly transcoding and streaming to Flash video format (.flv)! Okay, it’s almost fixed. They still haven’t fixed the problem where transcoding the audio to any sample rate other than the source file’s native sample rate causes the audio and video to speed up or slow down accordingly, but at least it’s working again! You can download them for Mac OS X here:
http://jones.videolan.org/~videolan/0.9.9-test/
I’ve only tested this on the Mac so far, but history tells me that it should work in other environments as well. Works with a stock installation of Albatross 0.5.1.
Browser Watch 2008 – June Roundup
Big things are happening in the browser world these days. We haven’t seen this much action in browser development since the Netscape 4 / IE4 browser wars of the dot.com bubble, and back then it was only two browsers! Today, we have (arguably) no less than 4 major browsers, each with increasingly good levels of standards compliance. Even Internet Explorer’s latest offering looks to be reasonably standards compliant, and may finally remove that painful thorn called “Internet Explorer Compatibility” from our collective sides. Let’s take a look at what’s coming down the pike: Continue reading
Will Developing For IE Ever Really Be Easy?
We all know just how much “fun” it can be to test for all the different versions of Internet Explorer. Multiple-IE kind of works, but the best solution so far is still using Virtual Machines. Developer Jean-Fabrice Rabaute, the author of DebugBar for IE, has developed a new solution which allows you to compare web sites in different versions of IE side by side. The software is still in alpha, so there are still some issues. Most notably, Flash does not work under IE6; that can be something of a show-stopper for most of our sites. IE6 may still be the anchor that drags our cool applications down into the abyss of compatibility nightmares, but when this tool is ready for prime-time it could really help make IE testing slightly less painful.
link: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage
Original Ajaxian article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/testing-ie-versions-just-got-a-little-easier
Firefox 3.0 and FireBug 1.2 – An Addict’s Confession
Hello. My name is David, and I’m a FireBug addict.
Hi, David!
It all started innocently enough. I was introduced to FireBug about a year and a half ago. “Hey, try this Firefox plugin. It’ll make your web development experience incredible! And the download is free!” Being a modern-day developer, I was willing to try new things. I can always uninstall it later; I’m in control. Or so I thought. Continue reading
New and improved – jQuery 1.2.5 is released!
After a very short-lived jQuery 1.2.4 (it was up for less than a day before being marked as a “bad build“), jQuery 1.2.5 has been released into the wild! It contains the usual flurry of patches, optimizations and fixes which are all spelled out in the Release Notes.
Of course, what you really want to know is whether or not this release is compatible with the $.string plugin, and the answer is yes! (Really, I’m sure that’s what was on your mind.)
dotString 1.0 for jQuery released
I love modern JavaScript libraries. You get a lot of bang for your buck, keep your code clean, and make my life as a JavaScript developer easier in general. I regularly use both jQuery and Prototype in my projects. jQuery is a fantastic javascript library with excellent CSS selector capabilities and DOM manipulation. It’s light-weight and really fast. Prototype is an excellent all-purpose library with many great utility features, including string manipulation, enumerable arrays and hashes. I love using jQuery for its speed and simplicity, but I miss Prototype’s utilities. Luckily, jQuery is very extensible with its versatile plugin system. dotString is a jQuery plugin that aims to bring Prototype’s string manipulation functions to jQuery. Continue reading
Welcome to the new StillDesigning.com
After four years, it was time to update stilldesigning.com and bring it into the the blogosphere. Why does Still Designing need a blog? Because we’re doing some really cool stuff these days, and this gives me a place to share thoughts on things that are happening with web technology. New advances in javascript libraries and techniques allow for lots of cool things on your web page that were previously only available through Flash web sites, and Still Designing is going to be there. Cheesy? Maybe. But it should be a pretty fun ride.