A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
As announced earlier, Firefox 3 RC2 has been released. “It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.” Go download my friends 🙂 Above that, IE8b2 has been scheduled for a release in August which makes me wonder if the full version will make it out this year … …
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Phototype, a client/server-side image manipulation library, supports all kinds of image manipulations. On the serverside the library is powered by combination of PHP/GD that renders the image, on the clientside Prototype is used. With Phototype, you are able to rotate, resize, flip and do some other cool effects to images. One could compare this to …
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“In this release we are trying to address the problems of enabling Firebug that users raised with 1.2b0. We now include the console as a disabled-by-default panel and Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko has implemented a multi-panel enablement. We’ve also worked on the default settings and text to try to make the enablement smoother and simpler.” – …
Gentlemen (and the ladies too, I know), mark June 5th in your agendas: “As discussed at today’s Firefox 3 meeting, we’ve decided that there is sufficient need to produce a new Release Candidate of Firefox 3 before shipping. Due to the time required to complete some other external dependencies, we don’t expect that this will …
“This release focuses on issues with the drop down menus and list boxes running the editor in IE and inside frames. There have been many reports where this combination didn’t work as expected. We have also added better keyboard support for the list boxes and drop menus so you can now use the arrow keys …
Google now offers a cached compressed copies of Prototype, script.aculo.us, jQuery, Mootools and Dojo on its high-speed content distribution network via the AJAX Libraries API. Inclusion can be done directly (viz. <script src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.2/prototype.js”></script> or via Google AJAX API Loader’s google.load() method. Neatest part of google.load() is the smart versioning feature. Very nice!