Tuesday, December 23, 2008

I saw an article about Qooxdoo (pronounced like "cooks-doo") on the Ajaxian website this evening. A JavaScript Framework that has apparently been in develoment since 2005.

The Qooxdoo framework is open source, and has some RPC hooks for Java,Perl, and PHP from what I saw. I am posting this as a note to go look into that a bit more later on.  They make a point that this is not a Javascript Library - like jQuery or prototype it is a Framework.

There is a PlayGround that the article mentioned - so you can play around with the Javascript API.

More interesting software to look at.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:11:17 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
 Sunday, September 07, 2008

Tonight, I checked my blog site with Internet Explorer 6, from an older computer that I had to keep on that version due to some software that was not compatible with IE7. I was shocked, that the style for my blog was not rendering correctly there. My usual blogging is done via IE7 from a laptop. I did check that the fire Firefox rendering was good (but it autoupdates to the most recent version). I then check the web stats on Web browser usage and found that about 1/2 of the people use IE - and IE6 is half of those. If you find the CSS Selector at the bottom, the page may render better with another style.

It was intersting to note that Firefox was approaching 50% of the market for browsing - I saw a post from Tim O'Reilley  (of O'Reilly books) that over 1/2 of the users were on Firefox at his site.

If you can switch your browser to something higher than IE6 - your experience will be better - and right now Firefox is better on CSS rendering than IE6 or 7.  I will be changing one of my computers to see the impacts of IE8 in the very near future.

I will have to take a look with the computer with Safari's browser and then try Googles new Chrome Browser too.  Certainly there is competition here for Microsoft in the browser market.

One other note - in editing this post, I did it in Firefox, and the positioning is different from what I am used to in IE7, which required some scrolling out to the right to see the post entry text in its entireity.

The differences in browsers give an impression of instability, and the idea of doing business apps entirely in a browser setting is going to need something to bring them into a more cohesive user experience. 


Sunday, September 07, 2008 9:34:25 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
 Tuesday, July 15, 2008

A while back, I was on Scott Hanslemanns blog, and was seeing some URL's that looked odd - and realized that these short URL's were special types of redirectors - to longer URL's. Scott was using shrinkster.com - however when I went back to his site to get that URL, the podcast that I had found it on, had been rewritten to have the URL's in the source. I searched the http://Hanselminutes.com site for refrences to Shrinkster and saw a mention that shrinkster had "been taken down due to spam" temporarily. If you are relying on links to be up - going directly might be the best way to go.

An older site that does the URL shrinking is http://tinyURL.com which has been used in some newspaper articles.

Twitter (http://twitter.com)  users, at least one I know of, use another similar site http://is.gd which can shrink a url small enough to fit in a "tweet" -140 chars. So this idea for phone users of twitter or one of the other "microblog" sites could be handy.

Hansleman's purpose in using shrinkster was that he could reference a URL with a very short code that could be stated in his audio podcast. Which is still a valid concept but he seems to have used the codes to his own page to contain the links now.

I am still not convinced of the value of a "tweet" site, and am working for a company that blocks such sites from any access within the company.

I still prefer human interaction over keyboard interactions - old fashioned, but batteries are not required ;)

Update 8/16/08: Another site for this : www.snurl.com

Update 9/19/08: Another: http://bit.ly

 

 

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:54:28 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)