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iPod Engraving Gallery and Leopard.Next DHTML

I noticed the new iPod Engraving Gallery that is a nice use of Coherent to show a slick UI with engraving suggestions. I was also talking to a friend that has leopard beta bits and he was playing with an updated Dashcode. It appears that the Coherent library is now used for the widgets too. Yay [...]

AbstractCanvas: HTML Canvas and Java2D in one fell swoop

Rodrigo Reyes has announced a new project called AbstractCanvas, a GWT project that sits on top of HTML Canvas and Java2D. The same code can thus run in the browser, or on the server. You can then write code such as: PLAIN TEXT JAVA:    VerticalPanel vPanel = new VerticalPanel();    CanvasPanelExt canvas1 = new CanvasPanelExt(300,150);    canvas1.setFillStyle(Color.WHITE);  canvas1.setGlobalAlpha(1.0);  canvas1.fillRect(0, 0, canvas1.getCoordWidth(), canvas1.getCoordHeight());          canvas1.addCanvasPainter(new [...]

Kojax? Huh?

Mary Jo Foley has an article called Move over, Ajax. Here comes Microsoft’s ‘Kojax’. The thing is, I don't get what it actually is: Kojax is a mobile development platform, according to my sources, that will allow Microsoft- — and third-party-developed — applets run in an Ajax-like way, using a combination of Visual Studio tools and [...]

Chromium Extensions Design Doc

Aaron Boodman posted about the new design document that discusses what the extension system should look like in Chromium and thus Google Chrome: Chromium can't be everything to all people. People use web browsers in a variety of environments and for a wide variety of jobs. Personal tastes and needs vary widely from one user to [...]

JavaScript Bra Size Calculator

Now this could only fly on a Friday ;) Ed Spencer has coded up a bra size calculator in JavaScript: One of the more mesmerizing websites I've worked on recently was for a lingerie boutique in the UK. Aside from the unenviable task of having to look at pictures of women in lingerie all day, I was [...]

Mouse entering and leaving versus over and out

Greg Reimer is doing really interesting work with reglib and he now has a neutral post on events and how he favours the pattern of mouse enter / leave to mouse over / out. He shows an example using the pyramid illustrations (as above) and then ends with: The title of this post is a bit misleading. [...]