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Web Applications 1.0 section on canvas. “Do not implement this in a production product. It is not ready yet! At all!” ;)

# 20th April 2005, 5:29 pm

Mozilla Gains Canvas Element Support (via) After discussion and documentation by the WHATWG.

# 20th April 2005, 5:27 pm / mozilla

Google Maps UK! (via) That didn’t take long. I can’t wait for them to add satellite photos from Keyhole.

# 19th April 2005, 9:09 am

The Strange Zen of JavaScript: Odd and ends. Ajax is succeeding where others failed: in making DHTML popular.

# 19th April 2005, 7:10 am

Geocide: How to destroy the Earth (via) Immensely amusing, and informative as well.

# 18th April 2005, 11:26 pm

Seeing Metaclasses Clearly (via) Metaclasses in Ruby—but no cartoons :(

# 18th April 2005, 6:35 pm

Hixie’s Natural Log: Threads. Hixie talks about Acid2—and model trains.

# 18th April 2005, 4:21 pm

Better date input demo (allegedly). Tom highlights a bunch of problems with my “better date” script.

# 18th April 2005, 2:44 pm

The Acid2 Test: The Smile and Row Fourteen. Safari looks set to beat the rest to full Acid2 compliance.

# 18th April 2005, 2:42 pm

About Adobe—Adobe to acquire Macromedia (via) Whoa! There goes competition in the graphic design software sector.

# 18th April 2005, 10:28 am

IE to Mozilla Guide for Web Application Developers. Extremely useful overview of CSS and DOM differences between the two browsers.

# 17th April 2005, 10:53 pm / mozilla

Rands In Repose: Use Your Misery. I like the idea of tricking yourself in to progress.

# 17th April 2005, 9:52 pm

QuirksBlog: Safari 1.3. PPK’s Safari 1.3 observations.

# 17th April 2005, 5:49 pm / safari

Safari 1.3 is out (via Software Update). New features include contenteditable support, XSLT and a major performance improvements.

# 16th April 2005, 3:51 pm / safari, xslt, contenteditable

Oi Scab!? Strikes at the BBC. Tough times to be working for the Beeb.

# 16th April 2005, 3:40 pm

What do you think about self-published books? Advice from Tim O’Reilly on self-publishing.

# 16th April 2005, 3:33 pm

Google Blog: Bird view. It’s nice to see Google publically acknowledging their enthusiastic user community.

# 16th April 2005, 3:18 pm

Could Rails have been built without Ruby? Fascinating essay about how Ruby, like Lisp, lets you build new languages.

# 15th April 2005, 5:42 pm / rails

Multiline JavaScript shell. My favourite bookmarklet just got even better.

# 15th April 2005, 7:42 am

ipfree.py. Works out where an IP is located, on a per-country basis.

# 15th April 2005, 1:37 am

Web Browser Standards Support. David Hammond is taking on the thankless task of compiling browser support charts.

# 15th April 2005, 1:32 am

Definitive Solution to Image Replacement (?) (via) Uses scary hacks and HTCs, but seems to cover all the bases.

# 14th April 2005, 9:58 pm

Avalon/XAML First Look (via) Dave Shea is concerned about XAML polluting the web. So am I.

# 14th April 2005, 9:54 pm

Mozilla XPath Documentation. This is extremely useful for writing Greasemonkey user scripts.

# 14th April 2005, 12:57 pm / greasemonkey, mozilla, xpath

PSP Browser Object Support (via) The PSP’s built-in browser has very basic JavaScript support.

# 14th April 2005, 12:51 pm

Check Range user script. The bookmarklet master dips his toes in to Greasemonkey.

# 14th April 2005, 12:46 pm / greasemonkey

Lawrence, Kansas: Convergence Capital USA (via) NPR report on my former place of work.

# 14th April 2005, 8:59 am

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