Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
I wanted to try out an SVG Animation example that someone sent me but Firefox currently doesn't have support for this. Bug 216462 contains a patch with a work in progress implementation of SVG Animation so I looked into trying it out. Unfortunately it has suffered some bitrot recently so I made the changes to get it to apply on... more →
Pavel Krivanek posted to the Seaside mailing list about generating XUL from Seaside. XUL is the user interface markup language that Firefox and applications based on XULRunner use for the user interface. Seaside is a continuation based web framework written in Smalltalk. Using this combination they get native look and feel for the platform for Smalltalk applications. more →
The Nokia Internet Tablet's use GStreamer for the multimedia functionality. Chris Blizzard built Mozilla on the Nokia N810 with the GStreamer video backend patch applied. He has a video on his weblog showing the N810 playing video inside Mozilla. Nice! If you have a <video> enabled browser you'll see the video here too. more →
I've been doing some experimenting with the emedded grammar code I wrote for Factor, trying to make it easier to use and a bit more useful for real world projects. My inspiration for the changes has been seeing the kinds of things OMeta can do and the examples in the Steps towards the reinvention of programming from the Viewpoints Research... more →
Factor has experienced some rapid change in the libraries and language over the past few years. I've written a few blog posts about Factor in the past and many of them suffer from bitrot due to this, making it hard to try out the examples in the latest Factor versions. I've collected some of these articles, put them in a... more →