Simon Willison’s Weblog

Cross Domain Frame Communication with Fragment Identifiers. Google are using this crazy iframe/fragment trick for their new Mapplets API.

# 31st May 2007, 2:15 pm / google, google-maps, hack, iframes, javascript

Apollo will include Google Gears technology. Looks like Google really worked on the partnerships for this one.

# 31st May 2007, 8:30 am / apollo, google, google-gears, javascript, offline

Dojo Offline on Google Gears. “The great news is that the Dojo crew were in the loop wrt this project, and Brad has ported Dojo Offline to use Google Gears as the base platform.”

# 31st May 2007, 8:28 am / brad-neuberg, dojo, dojooffline, google, google-gears, javascript, offline

RSS Bling goes Offline with Google Gears. Google Gears is Google’s new offline JavaScript framework. Dion Almaer (a Google employee) has a nice example of code using Google Gears on Ajaxian.

# 31st May 2007, 8:27 am / ajaxian, dion-almaer, google, google-gears, javascript, offline

Reducing HTTP requests using make. Nice simple recipe for concatenating JavaScript in to one file using make—doesn’t do anything for cache-busting though.

# 27th May 2007, 11:29 pm / javascript, make, performance

Packing Prototype. Why Prototype doesn’t ship with an official compressed version.

# 17th May 2007, 9:52 am / compression, javascript, javascript-libraries, packing, prototype

dojo.query: A CSS Query Engine For Dojo. I incorrectly criticised Dojo for not having a CSS node selection tool in my talk yesterday; not sure how I missed this.

# 17th May 2007, 9:40 am / corrections, css, dojo, javascript, javascript-libraries

Online and offline development with the YUI and Charles (via) Stuart Colville shows how the Charles debugging proxy can be used to serve up hosted YUI files while developing offline.

# 15th May 2007, 2:41 pm / charles, debugging, javascript, offline, proxy, stuart-colville, yui

Poly9 FreeEarth (via) Seriously sexy embedable 3D Flash globe, with a JavaScript API.

# 10th May 2007, 9:17 pm / 3d, flash, globe, javascript, mapping

The One True Object (Part 2). Jim Hugunin describes how the DLR let’s Python / JavaScript / Ruby talk to each other using a message passing abstraction.

# 5th May 2007, 1:27 am / dlr, javascript, jimhugunin, microsoft, python, ruby

Dynamic Language Runtime. Miguel de Icaza describes how Microsoft’s new Dynamic Language Runtime lets you call JavaScript and Visual Basic functions from Ruby. Looks like they beat Parrot to the punch.

# 3rd May 2007, 10:29 pm / dlr, javascript, microsoft, miguel-de-icaza, parrot, ruby, visualbasic

How to debug JavaScript with Visual Web Developer Express. Microsoft’s best kept secret: a decent free debugger for Internet Explorer that doesn’t require you to install Microsoft Office.

# 2nd May 2007, 2:06 pm / debugging, ie, javascript, microsoft, visualwebdeveloperexpress