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Kevin Nilson: Pushing Data To The Browser With Comet
Last night's presenter at the St. Louis Java Users Group is Kevin Nilson who gave a fascinating talk about Pushing Data to the Browser with Comet. I came into the presentation not knowing what Comet is, exception what I heard on the internet. Kevin did ... |
Jul 10, 2009 8:40:08 AM |
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Oh, Really? (Joining the Crowd in Deriding Wolfram Day)
Fresh evidence that the web has made us stupid, even the geniuses at Wolfram Research: How could they not know this? |
May 16, 2009 12:25:21 PM |
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Google Chrome: The Three Month Report
I almost forgot about my promise to write about my experience with Google Chrome. That was 98 days ago. It's a long time to be evaluating a product. I'd like to say that I did not forget to write the evaluation, but that's exactly what happened. After ... |
Dec 11, 2008 8:10:11 AM |
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Google Chrome: The Evaluation Period Commences
This is unreal. I mean the Google Chrome debut, not the Sarah Palin nomination. The first hint of the latest Google beta came to me via a Wall Street Journal email tech alert: Jessica E. Vascellaro and Robert A. Guth reporting for wsj.com: Google Inc. ... |
Sep 4, 2008 8:22:31 AM |
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Firefox 3 Download Day
I wouldn't have known this had I not bumped into a rant by Stephen Colebourne about the timing of the planned download day. According to the Mozilla Blog, the Firefox 3 release and download day is today (June 17, 2008) and will begin around 10:00 a.m. ... |
Jun 17, 2008 7:22:15 AM |
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Ten Years Of Big Open Source
Mitchell Baker: January 22, 1998 -- the Beginning of Mozilla Anyone remember this? NETSCAPE ANNOUNCES PLANS TO MAKE NEXT-GENERATION COMMUNICATOR SOURCE CODE AVAILABLE FREE ON THE NET BOLD MOVE TO HARNESS CREATIVE POWER OF THOUSANDS OF INTERNET ... |
Jan 22, 2008 8:16:25 AM |
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Given A Choice Between A Web UI And A RIA UI, ...
... I would always choose (as a user) the RIA! Up until a couple of days ago, that was a theoretical assumption. Then something happened that validated my assumption. It's not from Google or Amazon or eBay. It's from my ISP, the one that was bought by ... |
Jan 2, 2008 9:18:46 AM |
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Escaping The Browser: Mozilla Prism Loves Your Web Application
One of my complaints about web applications is that they all run in the same instance of the browser process. And consequently, they are all at the mercy of the worst behaving tab. I have reported in the past of web pages that keep on using 100% of the ... |
Nov 8, 2007 10:09:55 PM |
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HTML Needs New Tags
I am a firm believer of standard based software development. When it comes to web standards such as HTML and JavaScript, I should also add that the standards need to evolve. The way the web standards evolve is through experiments of their ... |
Aug 22, 2007 7:58:13 AM |
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AJaX This!
With all the AJaX hype in the last two and half years, two of the most obvious candidates for AJaXification in regular websites remain unmodernized. One is the "Printer Friendly Version" link. The other is the "Increase Font Size" link: There are ... |
Jul 3, 2007 7:34:13 AM |
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Safari on Windows Feedback: Fonts Dialog
Dear Apple, I tried out Safari on Windows and have encountered a problem with the fonts used to display Simplified Chinese web pages. They look awful in Safari on Windows. Here's a side-by-side comparison. Obviously, Safari on Windows is not using the ... |
Jun 12, 2007 8:18:00 AM |
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Apple's Safari On Windows
Brian walked in the office a moment ago, all disappointed. The keynote that Steve Jobs gave at the WWDC did not contain enough new stuff to satisfy him. However, Brian did mention the availability of Safari for Windows, which I downloaded immediately. ... |
Jun 11, 2007 4:04:01 PM |
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Hmm, I Haven't Been To Reddit Before
I only heard of Reddit, but never took a closer look at it before. Then, yesterday I got more than a thousand hits from http://programming.r... |
May 14, 2007 1:49:51 PM |
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Silverlight DOA On Mac OS X
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May 3, 2007 9:14:11 AM |
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Flex 3 SDK and Silverlight: Is Java Applet An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Twelve years after the original Java applet in the browser announcement, the march to a richer GUI runtime in the browser seems to be back on. On the heels of Adobe announcing the plan to open source its Flex 3 SDK, Microsoft entered the race with an ... |
May 1, 2007 1:19:39 PM |
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Why Hasn't XUL Taken Off?
There is an interesting write up over there on InfoQ about Mozilla's XUL: Jonathan Allen: Last week we ran a short piece on the future of rich client frameworks. At the time we over-looked XUL as a proprietary language for Mozilla add-ons. It seems that ... |
Apr 9, 2007 11:30:04 PM |
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Printer-Hostile Web Pages? OpenOffice.org To The Rescue
A while back (840 days ago, to be exact) I blogged about the NVU HTML authoring tool and its use in reformatting and printing printer-hostile web pages. Well, NVU 1.0 was released in June 2005. And I have been using it to good effect. However, for some ... |
Mar 20, 2007 6:50:33 PM |
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Love The New My Yahoo! Beta
I can't believe they are Yahoo!. Aren't they a Web company? Aren't they supposedly a big AJaX provider? Aren't AJaX supposed to work in All modern browsers and operating systems? |
Mar 8, 2007 9:28:29 PM |
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Selenium: Automatable In-browser Functional Testing For Web Apps
At today's OCI Java lunch, our resident automated building and testing zealot Mario Aquino talked about an interesting tool called Selenium. I forgot to blog it while he's talking. So I'm doing a little bit of catching up tonight. And all of this is ... |
Apr 20, 2006 9:54:31 PM |
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How To Pronounce URLs
Have yor ever noticed how, on the radio, either in regular programming or in advertisement, people say URLs differently? Take www.mywebsite.com for example. When we say it in normal conversation, we say w-w-w-dot-mywebsite-... |
Apr 11, 2006 8:05:52 AM |