2006 ← arv-o-matic

I guess you all heard that MacromediaAdobe donated their JIT compiler version of JavaScript to Mozilla. Tamarin is the JIT for Action Script 3 (AS3) which is a version of ECMAScript 3rd Edition. Using a JIT should improvement of JavaScript by at least 10x. This is of course very good news. However a lot of ...

The new Reader is so Good

Sep

28

2006

I guess most of you tried out Google Reader when it launched about a year ago and I don’t think a lot people tried it twice. I’ve been using it for the last year (no more Sage for me) but it had some serious drawbacks. The new Google Reader on the other hand is just ...

coComment

Aug

12

2006

When coComment first came out I was totally excited. The goal of coComment is to keep track of all the worlds web comments. Basically this allows me to see when someone replies to a comment to a blog without me going back to look at that page. This is something I have wanted a long ...

Associative Arrays Must Die

May

18

2006

Andrew Dupont wrote an excellent post explaining why using Array for maps/hashes/asssociative arrays are considered harmful. If you use Arrays for hashes in JavaScript you should be ashamed of yourself

Going to Ajax Experience

May

11

2006

I’ll be standing in the Google booth at the Ajax Experience conference on Friday afternoon. I guess it is time for me to figure out what all this Ajax hype is all about.

appendChild is not a Function

Apr

27

2006

Another day another rant. Now it is time for me ranting how bad IE DOM/COM objects and ActiveX objects integrate with JScript. Given: var f = document.body.appendChild; f.call(document.body, document.createTextNode('Huh?')); This throws an exception because DOM/COM methods are not really instance of Function. Why is this an issue you might ask? Assume we have an ActiveX ...

IE 7 DOM and JS Changelog

Apr

26

2006

Here are the DOM and JavaScript changes in the latest version of Internet Explorer 7, as well as the planned ones for the final release, since Internet Explorer 6.0 which was released in 2001: Begin Changelist ----------------- ----------------- End of Changes

WebOS in the News

Apr

24

2006

In 1999 I was working at a company called WebOS that was doing a window environment and application platform that run inside the browser using techniques that nowadays people refer to as Ajax. It seems like it is time for companies to try the same concept again. Ars Technica and ZDNet are covering YouOS (which ...

Goodbye Ice Cream Man

Apr

21

2006

6 Months at Google

Apr

3

2006

Maybe my little April fools joke was a bit too obvious. Me leaving Google for Microsoft? That would never happen. I don’t think anyone ever left Google for Microsoft and there is a reason why. Google is just awesome. At Google I got to work with the smartest people and they have all of the ...

Going to Microsoft

Apr

1

2006

After seeing the inside of a company that believes in the web I’m now certain that the web is dead. That is why I decided to accept an offer to work for Microsoft, not with the web but with Windows. I believe that Windows is the future and the web will continue to be an ...

ExplorerCanvas

Mar

28

2006

Over the last few months, me, Glen and Emil have been working on an open source version of canvas for Internet Explorer. The implementation uses VML and IE style filters (for image rotation, rgba and globalAlpha). It implements most of the specification but some areas are a not implemented (for example composite drawing, patterns, radial ...

JS Generics

Feb

28

2006

With JavaScript 1.6 Mozilla introduced generic version of a lot of the Array and String methods. Without broad support these very useful methods are in reality only available to Firefox and Firefox extension. Personally I’ve become too used to them to survive long without them. I’ve previously posted the JS 1.5 array extras and I’ve ...

Don’t trust this guy

Feb

2

2006

I was reading through an article about Atlas at eWeek where they quote Russ Nemhauser, head of Nemhauser Media Inc.: “JavaScript is not an object-oriented language. It does not have strong typing; there is no exception handling; and there is no inheritance. One of the biggest problems with the AJAX approach is the amount of ...

IE7b2, is it intentionally this bad?

Feb

1

2006

Here are just a few things that are incorrect, horribly broken or totally non-existent in Internet Explorer Beta 2. (This is far from a complete list. I’m assembling this list as I’m writing this post.) DOM Level 1 Core Comments are still incorrect Attributes are still horribly broken DOM Level 2 Views document.defaultView getComputedStyle getOverrideStyle ...

Emil is on Fire

Jan

11

2006

Emil has been really active lately. Not only did he emulate canvas in IE, he also used it to create a slick charting control for WebFX. On my end: Google is really awesome, San Francisco is the best city ever and my girlfriend is super sweet.

arv-o-matic

Archive: 2006

This morning…

Tamarin

The new Reader is so Good

coComment

Associative Arrays Must Die

Going to Ajax Experience

appendChild is not a Function

IE 7 DOM and JS Changelog

WebOS in the News

Goodbye Ice Cream Man

6 Months at Google

Going to Microsoft

ExplorerCanvas

JS Generics

Don’t trust this guy

IE7b2, is it intentionally this bad?

Emil is on Fire