The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
freshmeat.net: Project details for Echo2 Web Framework
“Echo2 is a reinvention of the Echo Web Framework built around an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) rendering engine. It aims to provide a component-oriented/event-driven toolkit for developing Web applications that approach the capabilities of rich clients.“
I’m starting to see a lot of AJAX stuff and it is impressive.
BetaNews | MSN Desktop Search Moves Out of Beta
“Microsoft’s MSN division on Monday launched its Toolbar and Windows Desktop Search product after five months of beta testing. The new toolbar promises to give a taste what search experience Longhorn is expected to bring. Noticeably missing from the final release, however, was a tabbed browsing feature that appeared in early betas.Microsoft planned to bring a tabbed experience to Internet Explorer 6 through the toolbar, but pulled the feature shortly before release, sources told BetaNews. Microsoft plans to add tabbed browsing to the product in a future release, but fully integrated tabs will only come in Internet Explorer 7, the company said.“
Too bad about the tabbed browsing featuer. It sure is something that will help IE.
Library Stuff
“A big “Hip Hip Hooray” and a tip of the ol’ Mets hat to Marylaine Block who mentioned the First Gov – U.S. Government RSS Library in her Neat New newsletter today. Finally, a directory of government RSS feeds. I hope they keep it current and update it regularly. In fact, an RSS feed for new feeds (how meta) would be nice…”
Hmm, I may have menitoned this already.
freshmeat.net: Project details for FCKeditor
“FCKeditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and JavaScript that brings to the Web much of the powerful functionality of known desktop editors like Word. It’s very lightweight, and doesn’t require any kind of installation on the client computer.“
My favorite WYSIWYG browser editor hits 2.0!
GroupServer: home
“GroupServer is a GPL open source collaboration server. It supports many-to-many interaction in groups and communities via email and an integrated web forum interface.Websites supported by GroupServer provide secure a personalised content structure with member directories, postings by topic, RSS and e-mail digest modes, document sharing, and web-based forum management. GroupServer renders XML content dynamically using XSLTs and is built on Zope and written in Python.“
Kevin Lynch: ActionScript/JavaScript integration
“There’s increasing interest in connecting ActionScript in Flash with JavaScript on web pages, and we’ve been working on techniques for accomplishing this well. An example of this working today is the Macromedia weblog aggregator report that was developed by Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers.”
Slashdot | Gates Releases Details on New Mobile OS
“Microsoft’s Bill Gates released details about the company’s new mobile operating system, code-named Magneto, at the Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas today. There has been a lot of recent speculation about the new OS. People have been describing it as a possible ‘Blackberry killer.’ Windows Mobile 2005 will be released to hardware manufacturers immediately. The OS will integrate Smartphone, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition operating systems into one platform. It will also include updates to the mobile versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.“
mozdev.org – greasemonkey: index
“Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (“user scripts”) to any web page to change its behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page’s style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a web page’s design or interaction.“
So, here it is, a little javascript here, a little DHTML there and, ta-da, you get control over those annoying webpages made useless by clueless webmonkeys:) That’s right, strip out the ads, point ot print versions, suppress navigation areas, all the power goes back to you.
freshmeat.net: Project details for WordPress
“Changes:
There have been over 170 bugfixes and enhancements since version 1.5. These include security fixes, login fixes for IIS, improved i18n, better IDN support, extended ping support, improvements to the administration interface, improved caching, database query reductions, plugin API bugfixes, improved conditional GET support for all content/feeds, and support for pingback on systems with “allow_url_fopen=Off”. Plugins can now override certain core functions (allowing external authentication, for example).“
iWebCal: Choose Calendar
“iWebCal lets you view calendars from iCal (and other calendar tools) on the Web. Just upload your calendar file to the Internet somewhere and type its address in the box above. Read the quick start for more info, or see iWebCal in action with an example calendar from Apple’s calendar library.“
Cool. Also works with the WebDAV-enabled versions of the Mozilla calendar tools. So, you could setup a group calendar that would be be pretty functional and web-enabled.