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Cross-Domain Transport with Window.Name

July 28, 2008

In the fall of 2006 I was wrestling with VS debugging JavaScript in IE and Venkman in Firefox teasing out problems and holes in the cross-domain channel library we were building for Windows Live and the Windows Live Contacts Control.
One of the most aggrevating aspects of debugging cross-domain JavaScript is that JavaScript debuggers do not provide the same degree […]

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HTML 5 Linking Proposal: Depth for Every Element

July 25, 2008

Eric Meyer has put together a proposal for HTML 5 to enable an HTML document to associate URL links with just about every visual HTML element type. This would make it much easier to make a blockquote link to the source of the quote, and would enable things that are currently impossible in HTML […]

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Cross-Browser Dynamic JavaScript Loading

July 23, 2008

Stoyan Stefanov writes about Non-Blocking JavaScript Downloads on the Yahoo User Interface Blog.  Good content all around, but I’d like to add a note on an item he somewhat casually skimmed over.
In the “Dependencies” section of the article, Stefanov describes using the onLoad or onReadyStateChange events of the dynamically generated script tag to receive notification […]

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Amazon S3 Down for 7 Hours; S3 Clients Looking for Exit

July 21, 2008

Lukas Biewald lays bare his frustrations with Amazon’s S3 service, particularly after the recent S3 service outtage that left his FaceStat business offline for more than 7 hours recently.  Actually, Lukas has double posted on this issue - he has a much more scathing criticism of S3 over on his own blog:  “Amazon S3 Screws […]

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WordPress 2.6 Released

July 17, 2008

Wordpress.org has announced a new 2.6 version of the WordPress online blogging and content management system.
Major features in this release include revision history, comparison, and rollback of edits made to articles, a “Press this” link to automate blogging about other web pages, theme previews to see how a theme would look on your content before […]

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Browse the National Gallery of Australia in PicLens

July 9, 2008

John and Bronwen of SoulSolutions have completed an RSS upgrade for the Australian government Prints And Printmaking web site, which gives free public access to something like 18,000 images of artwork in the National Gallery of Australia.  With all those images indexed in RSS, you can now browse those works of art in PicLens halfway […]

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WordPress.com Adding Gears Support

July 4, 2008

WordPress.com, the commercial blog hosting company that uses blog software from WordPress.org, is adding Google Gears support to their hosted blog service. Initially, this will only speed up use of the blog administration pages by caching the scripts and images locally. 
This isn’t really the best use of Gears, since the browser will cache content as it’ is accessed, […]

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Silverlight Supports Cross-Domain Calls

June 25, 2008

In getting back up to speed with Silverlight, and in particular the new Silverlight 2 beta 2, I’ve been surfing through the many quickstart topics on various web sites. While skimming “Receiving Plain XML Messages with Silverlight” these words lept out at me:
note: The WebClient class does not currently support cross-domain calls.
Say what?
The article then […]

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Brilliant Grasp of the Obvious

June 18, 2008

Carnegie Mellon researchers have devised a photo analysis engine, IMG2GPS, that can make a guess as to the location of a photo based on similar photos found on Internet photo sharing web sites such as Flickr.  The image analysis technique doesn’t dwell on identifying specific objects in the photo, but looks for similarities in lines and colors. Since […]

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PicLens Featured in The Economist

June 9, 2008

PicLens features prominently in this article in The Economist about the growing interest in rethinking how we visualize and interact with information on the web.

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