Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
Mike Riversdale has some photo's from the Thursday lunchtime event where the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra played in Wellington. I'm a big Ukulele fan personally. Some neat sites for Ukulele information: more →
John Resig has a post going into detail about the new Javascript language features in the latest nightly builds of Firefox. They include: more →
Google have announced the release of Google Gears, a browser extension and set of Javascript libraries for offline web application support. Supported browsers are Internet Explorer 6.0+ and Firefox 1.5+. The library provides support for: more →
The WHATWG HTML 5 working draft has a specification for a 'video' element. I briefly mentioned in a previous post that I was working on implementing this tag natively in Firefox. The intent is to display Ogg Theora encoded video without needing any plugins, similar to the recent demonstration of Theora playback using a video element by Opera. Opera have... more →
In my new job at Mozilla I've been working on adding offline support to Zimbra as a proof of concept of the new Firefox offline capabilities. Zimbra is heavily ajax based and gives a good idea of how difficult or easy it is to convert an existing application to use the offline support. For this first cut I made Zimbra... more →