Adrian Bateman of the IE8 team has posted a video showing how to use IE8′s new XDomanRequest object to request data from a URL that is not in the current HTML page’s domain. He also shows how to make an (almost) equivalent cross-domain call in a beta build of Firefox 3.1. This makes use of [...]
Jan 152009
Microsoft’s Live Mesh was awarded top honors in the “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” category at the Crunchies Awards on Jan 10, beating out other nominees in the category including Facebook Connect and Google Chrome. Live Mesh is a file sharing application that enables users to access their data from a variety of devices, while online or [...]
The new Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) set to go into effect February 10, 2009 will require all products for children to be tested for lead and other toxins. Protecting children from toxins is a noble cause, but this law is poorly written. It requires that manufacturers submit every model of their products for toxicity [...]