Bluish Coder

Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.

More on Firefox Offline Web App Support

Robert O'Callahan posts with more details on the offline support in Firefox. In a later post I'll go into more technical detail on how I used the features to add the offline support to Zimbra, along with the issues I faced. At the moment I'm working on adding the ability to edit drafts and have it updated on the server... more →

A mix of many things

I haven't been blogging much about what I've been doing lately so here's my attempt to put lots of little things in one post. Work at Mozilla is going well. My patches for Firefox related to offline event notifications were reviewed and committed to CVS. Offline support is now in the nightly builds and can be used. I finished the... more →

Another Offline Web Application Example

Mark Finkle has put together a simple demonstration application that uses the offline APIs in Firefox, including source. In other offline application news, John Resig has written about how the offline/online notifications work. more →

Ogg Theora support for Factor

A month or two back I did more work on my Ogg bindings for Factor. I didn't blog about it but I added Ogg Theora playback support and moved the Vorbis playback into a generic 'ogg-player' application written in Factor. This is now in the standard Factor distribution. You can play Theora video files by loading the apps/ogg-player module and... more →

Factor Article Manager Source

At the beginning of the year I wrote an 'Article Manager' web application in Factor. The idea was to have a simple way of writing short articles and snippets of information, that could be tagged and navigated. I wanted something small and easy to use, suited for this purpose. In about 8 hours I threw together the article manager and... more →