Can you trust document.location?

January 20, 2008 – 2:43 pm

Maybe JavaScript needs a same-origin rule for document.location. [ via Simon Willison ]

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Gallery Kudos

December 21, 2007 – 8:01 pm

CNet’s Webware listed the revamped .Mac Gallery as one of their top ten site redesigns of 2007. However, after working on it, I do not want to go to Mammoth Lake, ever. [Thanks, Josh.]

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DocTest

November 21, 2007 – 11:29 am

A hybrid of HERE docs and literate programming, Doctest is a standard library feature of Python that uses the interactive shell to run tests. Ian Bicking has a JavaScript version that runs in FireFox.

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SproutCore and Web Gallery

August 7, 2007 – 2:33 pm

The .Mac Web Gallery announced this morning was our team’s secret project these past few months. To build this, we used a JavaScript MVC framework, SproutCore, that Charles Jolley, another member of our team, started before coming to Apple.
And yes, I know I’m contributing to the proliferation of cat photos on the Web.
One more thing: [...]

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iPhone for Web Developers

July 3, 2007 – 8:00 pm

Apple developer documentation for iPhone web applications. [via Simon Willison]

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Information Software and the Graphical Interface

June 22, 2007 – 2:43 pm

Bret Victor discusses the ideas behind his 2007 Apple Design Award winning BART schedule Dashboard Widget in his essay Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface.

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wp-cron and Widgets

February 13, 2007 – 12:24 am

So, about this widgets-considered-harmful-business that Jeremy and Shelley discussed.
The obvious desperate web programmer solution is to set up a cron job that drops off a pile of XML and JSON in a cache. But that doesn’t help the 90% of people out there who don’t want to learn the shell, PHP, or JavaScript in order [...]

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Three Great Things from 2006

December 31, 2006 – 6:10 pm

Three things that worked great during 2006:

24 Hours, The Kleptones
2200 The Underground Hand That Buttoned The Widow was my most played track of 2006, according to iTunes.

WriteRoom, Hog Bay Software
I joined a short story a week writing group in 2006. WriteRoom allowed me to clear my desktop and focus on writing for a couple of [...]

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The Ultimate Sidebar

December 22, 2006 – 12:40 am

It’s been said there are only three core plots in Science Fiction: what if, if only, and if this goes on.

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“HTML, XML, JSON.”

December 21, 2006 – 3:10 pm

Tim Bray has the right take on the JSON/XML kerfluffle.

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The Monkey’s Already Gone to the Airport

December 9, 2006 – 7:02 pm

Todd Ditchendorf, commenting on the rising popularity of JSON:
But here’s hoping no one takes JSON seriously as a general-purpose data interchange format. We already have one of those. And it’s better. And it has TONS of great tools and ubiquitous platform support built around it.

Too late. According to Mark Nottingham, Robert Cerny’s proposed a schema [...]

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Firebug Lite

December 7, 2006 – 9:10 pm

A subset of the Firebug debugger for Firefox baked into a single JavaScript file for use on Safari, IE, and Opera.

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Folding UI

November 22, 2006 – 9:18 pm

I just noticed a nice feature in Mint’s UI:
When your browser is too narrow to reasonably display links to all the modules:

It folds the links into a select:

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Cross Talk

October 31, 2006 – 11:34 pm

Yesterday, Douglas Crockford made a proposal for a cross-document scripting model; however, there’s already one in the WHAT WG working draft.
I’ve been reading both specifications. My notes below.
Cross Document Messages
In the WHAT WG model, documents can implement postMessage().
A receiving document (in another window or iframe) receives a message event, and will need to implement a [...]

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DOM 3 XPath in Web Kit

September 4, 2006 – 11:22 pm

Last week the WebKit team announced support for DOM Level 3 XPath in the nightly builds.
If you want to play with that, there’s a tutorial on Mozilla’s XPath support, which has live examples that work with WebKit.
Native XPath in the browser means we can ditch the expensive calls to document.getElementsByClassName() in our libraries.

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