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Boris Bokowski: Eclipse in the Cloud
"Well... that Eclipse-based Bespin server is available now, after two days of development!
Simon Kaegi and I locked ourselves into a room and just implemented it. Today, we are declaring success, and are sharing the code as part of the e4 project with anyone interested. If you would like to give it a spin, check out this wiki page."
mnot’s Web log: Stop it with the X- Already!
"Rather than trying to figure out how to fit into how the rest of the world operates, getting adequate review and socialising their proposal, they just stick a bloody X- on the front and ship it."
iPhone browser simulator for Windows
"So one day it dawned on me that Webkit (Safari's rendering engine) is VERY similar on Safari for Windows and the iPhone. Could I somehow embed just the rendering component into a native Windows application and give it enough polish to do a decent job of simulating the iPhone Web browsing experience? After a weekend of hacking the answer is YES. iBBDemo correctly renders Webkit targeted html including the custom -webkit CSS extenstions, effectively giving us a compelling demo/test platform for iPhone Web content from the comfort of a Windows desktop (Note, I have only tested on Vista)."
Web Standards Gone Wild - Opinions - MIX Online
"The potential of HTML5 overwhelms my skepticism. You see a markup language that balloons in complexity with each new version; I see a language that is bursting with good ideas after a decade of stagnation. (HTML 4.01 was published nine years ago; XHTML wasn’t a “feature” release, unless you consider more forward slashes a “feature.”)
You’re also comparing apples and oranges, though it’s the WHAT-WG’s fault for putting them all in the same bowl. HTML5 is so gargantuan for two main reasons: (a) it aims to define new JavaScript/browser APIs (the “DOM5” stuff); (b) it prescribes, for the first time, how a user-agent should behave when faced with markup that is not valid or well-formed."
Introducing Sprockets: JavaScript dependency management and concatenation
"Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files. It takes any number of source files and preprocesses them line-by-line in order to build a single concatenation. Specially formatted lines act as directives to the Sprockets preprocessor, telling it to require the contents of another file or library first or to provide a set of asset files (such as images or stylesheets) to the document root. Sprockets attempts to fulfill required dependencies by searching a set of directories called the load path."
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