2007-11-06 09:24 The (not so) hidden goals of Prism, AIR and Silverlight
The Prism project (formerly WebRunner [1 ] has recently been announced by Mozilla Labs. In this announcement, a sentence has been ruffling a few feathers at Adobe and Microsoft (emphasis mine): Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we re not building a proprietary platform to replace the web. We think the web is a powerful and open platform for this sort of innovation, so our goal is to identify and facilitate the development of enhancements that bring the advantages of desktop apps to the …
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2007-08-25 00:00 Links for 2007-08-24 [ma.gnolia]
iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007, 12:00PM EDT - Engadget Well, the iPhone has finally been unlocked and is capable of using carriers other than AT&T. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: iphone, att, unlock Sun Startup Essentials Now the Sun Startup Essentials program helps you to get your company off the ground without breaking the bank. We've got unheard-of discounts on industry-leading systems and storage products, great discounts on our pa …
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2007-08-24 23:11 firefox -app app.ini
I discovered this blog post from Mark Finkle yesterday and could not believe my eyes... This is exactly what Mozilla should not do, because it is an extremely confusing message to people willing to build standalone apps on Gecko and integrators. Tech deciders will not understand the difference...
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2007-07-24 15:00 Mozilla begets WebRunner, a site-specific browser
Nowadays, people are turning to Web-based applications as replacements for desktop applications. Web-based office suites, mail clients, multimedia apps, and general productivity tools are all extremely useful now, but standard Web browsers aren't always the best option for running applications. To provide a more suitable tool for Web-based apps, Mozilla Platform Evangelist Mark Finkle has been working on WebRunner, a site-specific browser (SSB) that's designed to work exclusively with one applic …
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2007-07-24 12:44 Mozilla begets WebRunner, a site-specific browser (Linux.com)
Linux.com takes a look at WebRunner. " Nowadays, people are turning to Web-based applications as replacements for desktop applications. Web-based office suites, mail clients, multimedia apps, and general productivity tools are all extremely useful now, but standard Web browsers aren't always the best option for running applications. To provide a more suitable tool for Web-based apps, Mozilla Platform Evangelist Mark Finkle has been working on WebRunner, a site-specific browser (SSB) that's desig …
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2007-07-20 15:37 Minutes from Mozpad Meeting 2007-07-18
A complete transcript of the last Mozpad meeting is available on the wiki. We seem to have nailed down the initial action items for Mozpad, and I've updated the wiki accordingly to change the wording from "proposals" to "projects". There are seven, just like the Deadly Sins (coincidence). Now I know that some people will be saying that we're biting off more than we can chew or that some of these projects are worthless. ("IDE We don't need no sticking IDE!") As far as I'm concerned, all these pro …
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2007-07-14 00:00 Links for 2007-07-13 [ma.gnolia]
Linkinus Linkinus is an advanced, easy-to-use IRC client for Mac OS X. Connect to thousands of IRC networks all over the world and find people to talk to about any topic, from sports to computers, cooking to auto repair. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: irc, macosx, chat, application, growl Announcing BarCamp Kazan "We are very pleased to announce the very first BarCamp to be held in Russia. BarCamp Kazan (Russian here) will be held on August 4th, 2007, in Russia, Repub …
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2007-07-11 08:00 Get WebRunner 0.5 while it is hot!
I have been using WebRunner for a few weeks now, and it is pretty useful. It allows me to use some web applications independently from my browser which makes sense, since these web applications have a user interface of their own and don't require the full power of the browser. The web applications then appear in my taskbar with the correct icon instead of cluttering the browser with tabs. In addition, this allows the web applications to run constantly, even if I frequently restart my browser (w …
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2007-07-03 04:04 Mustache Madness: Elite Eight
By Mark La Monica and Joe Fernandez Can you feel the madness consuming you yet Mustaches, mustaches, mustaches! We're even considering posting pictures of ourselves with mustaches during the Final Four. Even the Web world has caught on, with Mustache Madness making its way into link format on Deadspin.com, Yardbarker.com, Stickandballguy.com and elsewhere. We appreciate your support for the Madness. There were two monster upsets in the Sweet Sixteen. Bobby Nystrom pulled an Arizona and exited ea …
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2007-06-30 02:33 Mustache Madness: Sweet Sixteen
By Mark La Monica and Joe Fernandez We're delighted by the outstanding support shown for Mustache Madness, the latest craze to sweep through the Internet. This is better than the dancing baby from a few years ago and nearly as cool as the random YouTube links you send your friends. And come clean, readers. We know some of you have started growing mustaches because of this. It's cool. Send us your mustache photos. You might make the next tournament. There were very few upsets in the first round, …
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2007-06-28 00:30 Mustache Madness!
By Mark La Monica and Joe Fernandez Summer is here and we feel like having some fun. And since we know every year that baseball's All-Star break creates three days of next to nothing to do in July, we're ready to launch into some amusement now that will carry us through that little hiccup in the sports calendar. The Keyboard Quarterbacks proudly -- very proudly -- present Mustache Madness, your chance to celebrate, commemorate and choose the greatest mustaches in New York sports history. Athlete …
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2007-06-27 05:30 Exhale, Red Sox Nation
By Mark La Monica Um, uh, er, uh, yeah. How about them Yankees Just two weeks ago they were chipping away at that 13.5 game lead the Red Sox held over them. Had it down to 8 games at one point. Now, um, not so much. It's right back up to 11 games. Pick-up basketball games go to 11. Not American League East division leads with nearly half the season gone. You double-down on 11. Not walk in the winning run for fear of throwing a strike on a full count. Eleven games. Not insurmountable. Not good, e …
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2007-06-20 22:07 Songbird XULRunner Wishlist
Last Friday, Mark Finkle of Mozilla posted his wishlist for XULRunner. We applaud his sense for what makes a good desktop application. The quality of our application depends on the quality of our platform. As such we'd like to echo a few we've stumbled over: Make hidechrome="true" & background-color: transparent; work across all major platforms (Mark, thank you for championing the UI!). ( BMO 322788, BMO 307204 and BMO 298889 )
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2007-06-18 23:39 IMG_4732.JPG
Mark Finkle posted a photo:
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2007-05-22 13:18 Crossbrowser Inline SVG
I've been wanting to use inline SVG for a while, but since it isn't supported by IE, I've been reluctant to make 80% of the worlds browsers unable to read it. Here is one solution that I found after playing with XSLTs. It uses Mark Finkle's SVG in IE behaviours, but on his site, he has to serve the example files in two different ways to get them to work in firefox and ie, because of mime-type issues. My way around that is by using a simple (pretty much the simplest possible) client side XSLT.
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2007-05-10 03:15 CHI 2007
Last week I attended CHI 2007 in San Jose. For those not familiar with CHI, it's a yearly conference where people studying human computer interaction come to present their latest work. CHI is a big conference: 4 days, 3 time slots per day, and ~16 different sessions per time slot. As usual, a wide variety of interesting research was presented at the conference, and this year a lot of it was directly relevant to the user experience of browsing the Web. Here is a quick recap of the sessions and pa …
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2007-05-08 10:30 SVG Please
I recently stumbled over a little piece of information that, while quite stale, still seems widely underreported in the places I hang out. Adobe announced some time last fall that its SVG Viewer is dead and gone as of January 1, 2008. Is anyone really surprised Given that SVG was Adobe's meagre foothold in the web-based vector market, easily dwarfed by Flash, and given that Adobe now owns Flash, continuing to produce a competitor seems a little self-defeating from a business perspective. It's be …
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2007-03-27 00:37 JavaScript Updates in Firefox 3.0a3
Firefox 3.0a3 has just been released, including a number of changes and new features. A list of some of the major new features can be found on the Mozilla site. However, there are a number of changes and additions that are particularly relevant to JavaScript developers, in particular, that I would like to take the opportunity to highlight. (This reminds me, if you don't yet subscribe to The Burning Edge, I highly recommend it; it does weekly recaps of the changes that have gone into Firefox, hig …
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2007-03-08 04:00 getElementsByClassName Speed Comparison
Mark Finkle suggested that I do some speed testing, now that a native implementation of getElementsByClassName has landed in the Mozilla trunk (destined for Firefox 3). So I went around and dug up all of the different, existing, implementations that I could find. Currently, implementations fall into one of three categories (with some straddling more than one): Pure DOM This usually involves a calls to .getElementsByClassName("*") and traversing through all matched elements, analyzing each elemen …
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2007-02-17 04:27 Another Offline Web Application Example
Mark Finkle has put together a simple demonstration application that uses the offline APIs in Firefox, including source. In other offline application news, John Resig has written about how the offline/online notifications work .Categories: firefox
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