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Google Chrome

Sep

2

2008

I guess you all have downloaded Chrome already. If not, what are you waiting for? I’d like to congratulate my friends who have been working so hard on this. Congratulations Glen and Ojan. Also, I’d like to add that Chrome is totally awesome, and I’m not saying that because I work at Google. I’m saying ...

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?

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 ...

Free Opera

Sep

20

2005

Opera web browser has broken the chains of ad-ware. The desktop version is now free. Opera is the fastest browser on the earth. It has excellent HTML, XHTML, XML, DOM, CSS, and JS support. It also supports SVG tiny.

Stop-Reload-Button in Firefox

Jul

30

2005

One nice little extension I usually install on Firefox is an extension that merges the reload and stop button. It hides the stop button when it is disabled and shows the reload button when the stop button is not available. However, the extension is not compatible with DPA2 or the latest nighlies. After installing and ...

Screen Readers Suck

Jul

19

2005

There has been some mumbling about accessibiliy and javascript for quite some time now and today I read the following at the DOM Scripting Task Force blog: It’s also all but impossible for some applications, such as Google Maps. In fact, after some preliminary testing our own Derek Featherstone was so dismayed by the state ...

MSE – Microsoft Script Editor

Jul

4

2005

Microsoft Script Editor is probably one of the lesser known tools that can really make a difference when it comes to developing web applications. MSE is a debugger, much like Visual Studio and it comes bundled with Microsoft Office. It should not be mistaken for Microsoft Script Debugger which is a piece of crap compared ...

My Daily Startup

Jun

23

2005

Since Foo did it and to prevent the rumours of my death to spread any further I’m gonna do the same thing. These are the programs I usually launch when I start one of my computers: Trillian Pro – sometimes it is nice to pay a little Dear Park alpha or Firefox depending on what ...

Visual C# Express Sucks

Jun

4

2005

Visual C# Express 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 is actually a quite nice IDE for developing C# applications. It has a lot of features that make navigating and figuring out the framework a breeze. The reason I think it sucks is the following: I had developed an application for a few hours and to be ...

playground/tunage

May

6

2005

Since I’m now a proud musikCube user I thought I would use one of its nice feature, called Tunage, to display the currently playing song here on my weblog. It sounded fun and most importantly small enough to do in a few hours. I had a pretty clear view of what I wanted in the ...

I Apologize

May

1

2005

I apologize for not getting back on emails lately. This weekend I manually filtered my junk mail folder, consisting of about 14 000 emails and found about 200 non spam mails. Unfortunatel I’m almost sure that I missed a few important hams in there so if you sent me an email that I haven’t replied ...

Metro is Totally Gay

Apr

26

2005

I saw the WinHEC keynote speak livel (over the internet of course) last night and when they got to introduce Metro I kept thinking; “What the fuck!” and “Metro is totally gay”. It is so damn obvious that Microsoft is trying to replace PostScript, which does exactly the same thing and has been working, and ...

Firefox 1.0.3.1?

Apr

19

2005

Firefox 1.0.3 was a serious mistake. It basically breaks any application designed to be used with both MSXML and XMLHttpRequest because it breaks the prototype chain on getters for native objects. For example it breaks Sarrissa, Bindows, WebFX’s XML Extras, WebFX’s IE Emu, some code at Forgetfoo’s site as well as a lot of other ...

New Computer

Apr

12

2005

Over the weekend I assembled my new computer. It is an AMD 64 with Windows XP Pro x64 Edition so now the task of finding programs compiled for x64 starts. This time I’m trying to keep away from a few programs that I’ve found annoying over the years. The first task I’m at is to ...

Tips, Tricks and Recommendations

Apr

8

2005

I think I came up with quite a few good subjects to cover here at my weblog. I will be posting tips, tricks and recommendations covering JavaScript, DHTML as well as designing APIs. These are all of course my personal views and based on experiences from both WebFX, WebOS, Bindows as well as from my ...

Switching to WordPress

Apr

1

2005

I’m in the process to switch my weblog to WordPress instead of MovableType. I’ll try to do the transition to my old theme over the weekend (although the default one looks better).

iFolder Alternatives?

Jan

20

2005

I just bought a new laptop and now I want to keep certain folders synchronized. My first idea was to use iFolder (mono) but after testing it I found that it was way too imature and I could not get it to work. iFolder seems like the perfect product, if it worked. Does anyone one ...

My X-Mas Wish List

Dec

15

2004

Skype plugin for Trillian

Longhorn Prototypes

May

12

2004

Paul Thurott has some posted some new concept images of Longhorn.

MSXML + HTA = BUG

Mar

31

2004

Something is very wrong with MSXML… An HTA is an HTML Application. It is an executable application format that hosts Internet Explorer in a fully trusted application. This application, like any other executable has full access to your OS and hardware. You can create and delete files, read the registry and more. When using a ...

PNG Tools?

Nov

3

2003

A while back I read about a program that allowed you to change the default background color that IE uses for semitransparent PNG images. For example if I create a PNG image with alpha channels in Photoshop and then try to display that in IE it uses a gray background (the default Mosaic background color). ...

Windows Village

Oct

18

2003

While looking for information about upcoming Longhorn features I stumpled upon these interesting job details at Microsoft Careers. The job description says that Longhorn will build a next generation NNTP Newsgroup functionality into the Longhorn Windows Shell. As an example it says that if the user is in My Photos and clicks “Windows Village”, they ...

PDC Broadcasts?

Oct

8

2003

Does anyone know if there will be any broadcasts or slideshows available to people who cannot go to the PDC in LA? Would it not be great if all the sessions were recorded and then downloadable to MSDN Subscribers?

Windows Sandboxing

Oct

7

2003

Dylan Greene has a good post about how sandboxing Windows could make computing a lot more secure. Since Longhorn will be using Avalon, which is a .Net API, I don’t see why this would not be possible. .Net already has most of these security features built in and Longhorn will most likely use .Net 2.0, ...

RSS Reader Part 2

Aug

11

2003

Asa Dotzler gave me a list of RSS readers to try out. I’m currently giving RSS Reader another try. It is maybe a bit too basic but I like the concepts of using bookmarks. Once I get back from my vacation I’ll see if I can get it to at least mark feeds with unread ...

RSS Reader

Aug

10

2003

I’m looking for a RSS reader. I need one that either integrates with Mozilla Firebird or uses the Gecko engine.

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