2007 ← arv-o-matic

Reader Friends

Dec

14

2007

One of the wow features of Reader that I’ve been waiting for for a while is now out. I can now easily see what other people have shared. Let the sharing begin!

[Revised to not sound as nagging as I always sound] The JScript 5.7 patch is now being pushed to an IE6 computer near you… IE6 uses Jscript 5.6 which has some design flaws when it comes to garbage collection. This is just a small issue for small applications but it is a large issue for ...

Gmail and WebKit. Feel the speed!

Nov

11

2007

If you haven’t tried the new Gmail with a recent nightly WebKit (you need build 523 or later due to one blocking bug in earlier builds) I dare you to try it. With nightly WebKits it takes about 200ms to go from the Inbox to a thread. Anything that takes less than 300ms is perceived ...

Love WebKit, Hate Safari

Nov

10

2007

I love the speed and features of WebKit but I hate the UI of Safari. Maybe I can get over the clumsy UI in time?

Computed vs Cascaded Style

Jul

27

2007

Most JS frameworks and libraries I’ve seen have a function similar to this: function getStyle(el, prop) { if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle) { return document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null)[prop]; } else if (el.currentStyle) { return el.currentStyle[prop]; } else { return el.style[prop]; } } So what is wrong with this you might ask? Lets add some background and then we ...

RegExp Tool

Jul

22

2007

My favorite text editor of all time is ActiveState Komodo. I used to use the full/pro version of this but since I was too lazy to buy it so I kept redownloading the trial version every month. A while back ActiveState released a free version of the editor called Komodo Edit. Komodo Edit has almost ...

Earthquake

Jul

20

2007

This morning at 04:42 I felt my first real earthquake since moving to San Francisco. It was very short and it was over before I knew it. However, it left me a feeling of emptiness and I felt a lot more frightened than I would ever have expected.

Google Developer Day

May

31

2007

I’m currently at the Google Developer Day waving the Gears flag!

More Gears

May

30

2007

It has been pretty hard not being able to tell people what I work on. Most of the time that I didn’t say “no comment” I said I was working on the Firefox team here at Google and sometimes I said Gmail. None of these are true as you now know. What I’ve been working ...

Google Gears Blog

May

30

2007

Our blog is now live. I hope it gets a few more updates than this one http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/

Google Gears

May

30

2007

It is out! This is what I’ve been working on at Google for quite some time. I’m very excited to be part of this. http://gears.google.com More later…

New Explorer Canvas Release

May

4

2007

We finally got our act together and squashed some long standing bugs. This is the first bug fix release since we initially release ExCanvas over a year ago. Support for sub pixel rendering Crop content if painting outside the canvas initElement now returns a reference to the fixed element Fixes to arc Printing support Implement ...

IE Background Cache Fix

Feb

26

2007

A while back a lot of people where covering how to work around the bug that IE always reloads background images from the server, leading to your UI flickering. Dean wrote one and lots of others wrote the same thing. Today, I saw this simple workaround (from a fellow Googler who worked at Microsoft before): ...

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