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Thank you Adobe AIR Team!

Posted by: revoked in Programming on August 1st, 2008

The Adobe AIR Team had a quick post up the other day offering a free pocket reference guide to the first few emails. I managed to wrangle one and it just showed up! Thanks Adobe!

adobe, air

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Google Maps + IE8 Beta 1 = Epic Fail

Posted by: revoked in JavaScript, Programming, Tech on March 5th, 2008

The front-end engineers certainly have their work cut out for them with the release if IE8 on the horizon. Albeit that this IS a Beta, and the FIRST of all public Betas, but still, all my sites ~~generally~~ mostly work (except those using google maps).

Remember folks, this is early beta software, rendering (most likely) browser specific ~~hacks~~ styling, so take this with a grain of salt.

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But wait! Not even Microsoft’s DOM based maps look good:

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Safari 3 … wtf?

Posted by: revoked in Programming on November 27th, 2007

So far my experience with Safari 3 (on win32) has been a very good one. By far it is the fastest Javascript implementation I’ve ever seen. On top of that it’s compatibility is very very close to FireFox 2. We’ve seen only a few issues, specifically in regards to Flash implementations.

But I’m not here to talk about what apple has done right with safari. I’m here to talk about what they did wrong, specifically the only thing that I can find that they did wrong. Lets take a look at a few screenshots of their very nice ui:

The Address Bar:

pretty blue glow