I’m pleased to announce a major upgrade to WebWait, the first big upgrade since I launched the site 2.5 years ago. It’s based on watching how people are using it, talking about it, and sending me direct feedback about it. Thanks to all who have provided feedback.
The new features are:
Multiple sites You can [...]
Tags: Ajax·Announcement·Javascript·Project·Web·WebWait
Scrumptious is a web framework I’ve begun working on at Osmosoft. It’s a web app and web service for sharing bookmarks and comments about websites, and pretty much anything else with a unique URL. Things it is related to: Delicious (bookmarking), Digg (threaded comments), JS-Kit and Disqus (embedded comments with common identity across multiple sites).
Scrumptious [...]
Tags: Ajax·Announcement·Javascript·Osmosoft·Scrumptious·tiddlyweb·TiddlyWiki
Z-index is the CSS property governing how high in the stack an element is, if you visualise the elements as appearing in a 3D stack coming out of the page. The actual value of an element’s z-index doesn’t matter; just its value relative to other elements on the page. Elements with higher z-indexes appear on [...]
I’m here at Google’s London office, where they’re streaming the IO keynote.
Eric Schmidt talks about Ajax, always-on, simplicity, and how it’s improved life.
Vic Gundotra’s on. We spent too long not fully using XML, CSS, etc., i.e mid-late ’90s they were there, but really started using them to the max around ~2005. Let’s not wait so [...]
On URL Shorteners
URL shorteners are enjoying their 15 minutes of fame right now. They’ve been around since 2002, but became flavour of the month as soon as half of the planet decided to compress their messages into pithy 140-character microblogs, and there is money it, driving a massive amount of new players into the market, [...]
Tags: Ajax·Cloud DB·Experiment·Im8ge·Javascript·TinyURL·URL shorteners·Web
Why a Chameleon File?
While most browsers support SVG, IE's unique brand of interopability does not extend that far; even the latest and greatest, incarnation v. 8 of IE, has no sign of SVG. And so, we citizens of the innernets are left with two vector graphics formats: VML for IE, SVG for standards-compliant browsers, which [...]
Tags: Ajax·Ajax Patterns·Chameleon·Experiment·HTML·Javascript·JOSH·Project·Web
I've just presented TiddlyGuv at the FOSSBazaar workshop, the event I wrote about yesterday. It's a good time to introduce TiddlyGuv - I've mentioned it in some talks and tweeted about it on occasion, but this is its maiden appearance on Software As She's Developed.
TiddlyGuv (that's a code name we'll use for a while) is [...]
Tags: Ajax·FOSSBazaar·Governance·Javascript·open source·Osmosoft·TiddlyGuv·tiddlyweb·TiddlyWiki
Regular readers of this blog will know I am a big fan of Javascript on the server. Through its Jaxer project, Aptana has been at the forefront of the server-side Javascript renaissance. As I'm in SF right now (mail or tweet me if you'd like to meet up), I was pleased today to be able [...]
Tags: Ajax·Aptana·Firefox·Javascript·Jaxer·Mozilla·Server-Side Javascript·Web
Since we're planning to use TiddlyDocs internally, we're in need of some high-level documentation for TiddlyDocs in order to have it approved for certain uses.
My starting point was to locate, solicit, or produce documentation for TiddlyWiki and TiddlyWeb, the technologies on which TiddlyDocs is based.
For TiddlyWiki, useful sources are:
Position Paper [...]
Tags: Ajax·Javascript·Osmosoft·TiddlyDocs·tiddlyweb·TiddlyWiki
Scrumptious Update: Open ID Support, UI Enhancements
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments · SoftwareDev
I’ve released a new version of Scrumptious. Main change is it now supports Open ID. You can click a “login” link to comment by Open ID. It’s optional by default, though a Scrumptious site operator could easily make it mandatory for read, write, or both by just changing a couple of words in the “policy” [...]
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Tags: Ajax·Comments·Javascript·Osmosoft·REST·Scrumptious·tiddlyweb