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Codebits: The Codebits Digital Signage Project (Part I)

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:39:27 +0000

We’ve been so busy we haven’t had time to do a proper write-up of this yet, but this year we decided to revamp the on-site displays (both overhead projections and LCDs). And given that 2012 is pretty much the year of the Raspberry Pi, we decided to have a go at it using these amazing little boxes – after all, they’re pretty much perfect for the job given that they have an HDMI output, an Ethernet port and more than enough smarts to run a browser and playback H.264 video.

Tags: #codebits #imported:pinboard #raspberrypi #webdev #webkit

sapo / digital-signage-client

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:38:52 +0000

The SAPO Digital Signage Client v2.0

Tags: #codebits #imported:pinboard #raspberrypi #sapo #webdev #webkit

I will miss the “Douglas Crockford of browsers” | Christian Heilmann

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:56:41 +0000

I always called Opera the Douglas Crockford of browsers as it was ruthless in its implementation of standards. If something didn’t work in Opera there is a good chance that you did something wrong. Even better – fixing it in Opera in most cases meant looking at how the W3C standard meant things to work and write your code accordingly, which in most cases meant no change in other browsers, but cleaner code overall. Opera was my linting tool.

Tags: #imported:pinboard #opera #webdev #webkit

I will miss the “Douglas Crockford of browsers” | Christian Heilmann

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:56:41 +0000

Tags: #opera #webdev #webkit

Why Mozilla Matters | Brendan Eich

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:53:15 +0000

This is an extended essay on the news out of Norway yesterday. See the closing for encouragement toward Opera and its fans, whatever the open source projects they choose to join, from me on behalf of Mozilla.

Tags: #browsers #firefox #gecko #imported:pinboard #mozilla #opensource #opera #webdev #webkit

Why Mozilla Matters | Brendan Eich

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:53:15 +0000

Tags: #browsers #firefox #gecko #mozilla #opensource #opera #webdev #webkit

The Second Coming of Moondoggie | EVE Online | EVE Insider | Dev Blog

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:54:31 +0000

"It's a hefty wave to catch, but our browser has already been Atlas for five years - the IGB is perched atop a custom-written HTML parsing and rendering system. While a noble technical endeavor, this leaves to us the tasks of upgrading and extending the IGB to match the ever-shifting currents of the HTML standard. Hardly the best way for us to serve you, the player! But, like Atlas, we now have two Pillars upon which to rest these burdens. The first, and undoubtedly greatest, is the Heraclidean support provided by Awesomium and its Prince of Code. This library harnesses the raw strength of the Chromium browser toolkit - the muscles, knit from Webkit, that writhe cobra-like beneath the skin of Google's Chrome - and hand-delivers rendered HTML pages to us as nice 3D surfaces, which we can then readily display in our own Trinity engine."

Tags: #browsers #chrome #chromium #eve #eveonline #gaming #google #mmo #webkit

Some Notes On iTunes LP · Jay Robinson

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:49:12 +0000

"The iTunes LP experience is accomplished with HTML 4.01, CSS and JS. The interface feels very Flash-like, but there is no trace of it. The CSS animations are elaborate and smooth. ... As a music fan, and as a web developer, I couldn’t be more pleased with the new iTunes LP offering. If your audience is significantly Apple-oriented (e.g. a site about Mac rumors or a popular iPhone app) this proves that you can provide an incredible experience using only JavaScript and some proposed CSS3 properties."

Tags: #css #html #itunes #javascript #music #webdev #webkit

XMLHttpRequest - W3C Working Draft 20 August 2009

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:13:08 +0000

This is very annoying for Palm webOS, where WebKit is basically the top-level OS and not a browser. Might be a problem for ChromeOS too? Apps can't set their own User-Agent headers: "For security reasons, these steps should be terminated if header is an ASCII case-insensitive match for one of the following headers: ... User-Agent"

Tags: #http #webdev #webkit #xmlhttprequest

Gizmodo - Every Mobile Browser Should Give Up and Just Go WebKit - Mobile webkit

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:53:07 +0000

"Mozilla's Fennec could become a contender to the throne, true, but it's still far from final."

Tags: #fennec #gadgets #mobile #webkit

ChrisLord.net : /Software/mozilla-is-actually-pretty-good-guys.enlighten

Mon, 25 May 2009 05:30:29 +0000

"I've been meaning to blog for a while about Mozilla, and the current trend of abandoning it in favour of WebKit. I'm not against WebKit and there are definitely advantages it has over Mozilla in certain situations, but I'd like to highlight some of the great things in Mozilla and why I think we ought to reassess the whole webkit move."

Tags: #mozilla #webkit

Fling Media: Making Google Reader for Fluid

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:18:29 +0000

"Google Reader is ugly, but it works great as an online RSS newsreader. So what if I used Fluid.app to create a standalone Mac app and replace my desktop newsreader."

Tags: #aggregators #feeds #fluid #google #osx #rss #webkit

Greasekit and user style-sheets

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:27:34 +0000

"No doubt this is an extremely subjective thing... but I really much prefer having a small fixed point and set colors for text and its background when reading websites with large chunks of text."

Tags: #greasemonkey #webdev #webkit

Drosera - WebKit - Trac

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:00:26 +0000

"Drosera is a JavaScript debugger for WebKit that can be used with any application that uses WebKit. Like the Web Inspector, over 90% of it is written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript."

Tags: #javascript #js #osx #safari #webdev #webkit

Site-specific browsers and GreaseKit | FactoryCity

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:08:52 +0000

Seems like a great combo - a single-site browser wrapping that site's UI with greasemonkey-style JS-based customizations.

Tags: #greasemonkey #javascript #osx #webdev #webkit