Adrian Holovaty is looking for information on how to run a state of the art browser engine in a headless fashion. Basically he wants programmatic access to all of the DOM information that you can get at through Firebug (or any decent DOM inspector).
I don’t know what he’s using it for, but you could use [...]
Tags: · browsers, Web development
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? Darned interesting article on the impact mobile phones have on society. It’s a feature on Jan Chipchase, a researcher at Nokia who publishes an incredible blog that I’ve subscribed to for awhile. Position Is Everything. Yet another site documenting browser CSS limitations. Daring Fireball: The Unsatisfying State of Twitter Web [...]
Tags: · Apple, browsers, css, games, human rights, iPhone, links, mobile technology, mysql, poverty, Twitter, Web development
Apple has backed off on pushing Safari for Windows out to iTunes users as a software update and now more accurately lists it as “new software“. What I find interesting about Apple’s sudden eagerness to get Windows users to install Safari is that it shows they’re significantly more committed to it as a product than [...]
Daring Fireball: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3. The main sense I get from this review is that I could be getting more out of my Mac. Jason Kottke: Getting into Momofuku Ko. How this small but incredibly popular New York restaurant handles reservations using a Web application. It sounds like the basic model works like Ticketmaster.
There [...]
Tags: · Apple, browsers, food, links, Web development
Jason Kottke: Our collective recent history, online. A collection of magazine archives available online. Putting archives online is cheap, and you can put ads on old stuff just like you can jwz: Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!. Everybody is linking to this, but who cares? jwz has put the original Mozilla Communications [...]
Tags: · browsers, economics, history, links, politics, science, The Media
Jon Udell interviews Ward Cunningham about how the Eclipse portal exposes its innter workings by way of reports on test results, and the advantages the resulting transparency provides. Really, really interesting stuff. Bruce Schneier discusses a report on the lack of security in implantable medical devices that provide [...]
Tags: · browsers, music, security, software development, testing, WordPress
The Mozilla Foundation is celebrating the ten year anniversary of AOL’s having released the Netscape Navigator source code and creating the foundation. Here’s the original press release. One thing I remember is that Slashdot broke the story of AOL releasing the code before it was announced — it was the first really big story Slashdot [...]
Tags: · browsers, history, open source
Microsoft’s Monday announcement of the new browser compatibility features in Internet Explorer 8 has set of a torrent of commentary. They described their new approach to markup versioning in an article at A List Apart and on the Internet Explorer blog.
The basic idea is that Internet Explorer 8 will enable you to specify which rendering [...]
Tags: · browsers, Internet Explorer, Web development, Web standards