Archive for February, 2005

Opera adds SVG Support

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

Opera has added support for SVG in their browser. Their mobile browser, that is. Since Opera is using the same code base for Windows, Unix, Mac as well as lots of mobile platforms it would not surprise me if we would see this being added to their desktop browser as well.
With Mozilla 1.8 having SVG [...]

IE7 Beta

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

I think you have all seen the news about the Internet Explorer 7 beta which is planned for the summer. Nothing has really been said about it more than it will include some anti spyware technology. Meaning: IE6 + Microsoft Antispyware in one and the same installer
Seriously, I wonder what it will include? [...]

DHTML Universe

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

Alex Russel of netWindows fame, has created a graph containing people in the DHTML Universe and how these relate to each other. Very nice work.

Delegates in JS

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

I think we’ve all made the mistake while we are doing OOP in JavaScript with this not pointing to what we expected.
this.obj.onfoo = this.handleFoo;
In the code above this inside handleFoo would point at this.obj and not at this. This is usually worked around with the cumbersome code:
var self = this;
this.obj.onfoo = function (e) {
[...]

State of the Nation

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

I felt that I have been neglecting my web log for way too long so here comes some short comments about various things.
WoW
On Monday evening the European World of Warcraft beta ended with a very dissappointing lag party. A hundred people or so was waiting for the demons to arrive and in the meantime tried [...]