Tag: javascript

Keeping up with the lizards

It used to be the case that I pored over Mozilla (and later Firefox) release notes. But I stopped sometime in 2004, around the point when I accepted that XUL development was too hard to be doing in my spare time and yes, Firefox was clearly better than IE at just about everything.

This means that I now miss all the cool announcements

http://webkit.org/specs/CSSVisualEffects/CSSTransforms.html

http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api/#queryselector

http://www.dustindiaz.com/firefox-31-brings-good-stuff/

http://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Document.querySelector

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.1_for_developers

Javascript textile previews

After my original post about it, it’d probably be good to point out that Jeff Minard has taken the idea and run with it, introducing

  • h tag support
  • br tag support
  • proper html syntax (a few tags were being closed incorrectly.)
  • Various small fixes

Of course, have a Blogger-hosted blog I can’t make use of any of these oh-so-clever solutions (because of user recognition I think – otherwise I could just provide my own form), but it’s good to keep up with the wizards.