I accidentally inserted a double left angle quote («) this morning, which lead me to discover that OS X provides a handy way to insert it and of course it’s match, the double right angle quote (»). This may not…
Posts Tagged with Web Development
Burning Chrome
9/2/2008 – 10:12 am
Google Chrome Comic
Google plans to release a new browser soon, based on Webkit, but with a new JavaScript engine, which is expected to be significantly faster than most browsers and will be sandboxed to ensure that a crash in one tab…
MacGDBp: A Remote PHP Debugger for OS X
6/17/2008 – 9:00 am
Blue Static has released MacGDBp, “a native Cocoa application that allows Web developers to debug their PHP applications.” The tool utilizes the Xdebug PHP extension to connect to the running PHP app so the developer can step through their code, add breakpoints…
SproutCore: Apple’s Flanking Move?
6/16/2008 – 10:46 am
I wasn’t all that familiar with Sproutcore, Apple’s JavaScript framework prior to reading this article, but after thinking the arguments over, I think Apple has been flanking the other players in the application marketplace (both online and desktop) for a…
Portable Privacy Experiences
4/18/2008 – 11:09 am
When you think about it, online social applications are bad places to put things that are meant to go unseen, and it makes the notion of privacy start to feel like the wrong idea. This brings us back to the…
Creative Bridges, Coworking & Communities
4/15/2008 – 9:58 am
This started as a quick comment on Alex Hillman’s post Creative Agency, which quickly grew so long that I realized that I had begun writing a post of my own, so I’ve shifted it to my site so I don’t hijack…
Searching for Findability
3/25/2008 – 9:17 am
Everyone seemed to have their place in the project life-cycle at the web design agency; everyone but little Findability. Occasionally someone would notice his value to a project, but instead of giving him the care he deserved, they’d just fork…
Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
3/5/2008 – 11:53 am
Microsoft has posted the Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit page. While the links don’t work quite yet, odds are good that an announcement will be made at MIX. Hat tip to Jonathan Snook for the link.
There’s some interesting information available on…
A Good Day for the Web - IE8 to Properly Support Standards
3/4/2008 – 10:37 am
The IE team announced a change from their previously stated plan for IE 8 ‘involved showing pages requesting “Standards” mode in an IE7’s “Standards” mode, and requiring developers to ask for IE8’s actual “Standards” mode separately’ via a specific bit of meta…
Revising My Thoughts of the Future
1/25/2008 – 10:14 am
Having spent some time digging into the various arguments around IE 8’s plan to address compatibility concerns since my first post on the subject, I’ve shifted away from my initial embrace of the plan. While I’m not as deeply entrenched…