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Posted on April 23, 2008.
Yesterday’s post looked at how Ext JS were using AIR for their library documentation. Today, it’s back to documentation about AIR.
Adobe and O’Reilly have released the AIR For JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
It’s free and 204 pages of great material useful for all levels of developers. If you know nothing about AIR, it’ll get you started, [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008.
Here’s a quick tip for web developers. If you’ve made changes to your CSS or JavaScript but you’re not seeing the results that you expected and you’re sure that your code is correct, try forcing a page refresh.
You don’t have to empty the browser cache, just use the following key combinations:
IE : Ctrl F5
Safari : [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008.
Apple have released an update to Safari 3.1 which patches a security hole.
If you’re using Safari on Windows you can get the latest update by going to Start > All Programs > Apple Software Update.
You’ll be required to reboot your machine.
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Posted on April 7, 2008.
I’ve been out of the office all day at the Adobe AIR On Tour Event in Brussels, but given the way the stats have rocketed for Lightning related articles on this blog it looks like Mozilla have finally released v0.8 of Lightning for Thunderbird and there might be the odd problem with tasks
I’ve been using [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2008.
I’ve written a few posts about various problems with the Windows version of Safari 3. As a result, a surprisingly large number of the search engine generated visits to this site come from people using terms like “text seems bold in safari” or “safari text problem“.
All Browsers Are Not Created Equally
There seems to be some [...]
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Posted on January 14, 2008.
If you use Lightning (0.7) you’ve probably had the frustration of entering some tasks in to your to-do list and then not being able to find them. It’s really quite simple to locate them, though the solution is not obvious always at first.
Save Tasks Locally
The first thing to note is that tasks have to be [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2008.
**** UPDATE Update: 19 March 08 Safari 3.1 for Windows is out of Beta and available from www.apple.com/safari ****
If you’re using Safari 3 Beta on Windows XP it may develop a nasty habit of crashing as soon as it launches. This is certainly something that a lot of people experienced as soon as the Beta [...]
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Posted on January 3, 2008.
The vast majority of people have probably never heard of open document formats. That’s not a bad thing. Generally, people should concentrate on what they create, not how they create. But most of us should be concerned about who can access what we create. Whether it’s for commercial reasons or for promoting our ideas, we [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2008.
Hurray, Netscape are withdrawing support for their browser from 1st February 2008 and advising people to use Firefox instead. Let’s face it, Netscape was just Firefox in a different jacket so I don’t really see what place it had in the mix of browsers.
Over the past couple years, Netscape hasn’t really been an issue in [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2007.
Two more JavaScript libraries have been added to CacheFile bringing the new total to 17 if you include script.aculo.us
Datejs is a small library that as its name would suggest, has a number of date parsing functions for dealing with date in human terms e.g. “Next Friday” or “6 Months Ago”.
JsUnit is a unit testing framework [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2007.
**** UPDATE Update: 19 March 08 Safari 3.1 for Windows is out of Beta and available from www.apple.com/safari ****
I had hoped that the release of Apple’s latest incarnation of its operating system, OS X 10.5 Leopard, last Friday would mean that Safari 3 would finally come out of Beta, but it doesn’t seem to be [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2007.
One bane of a web designer’s life is browser testing. We have to ensure that the web sites we build look and work as intended in all web browsers.
We have official standards to adhere to that should make this an easier task, but the people who create web browsers don’t necessarily implement all of these [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2007.
**** UPDATE Update: 19 March 08 Safari 3.1 for Windows is out of Beta and available from www.apple.com/safari ****
Update: If you are running Safari on Windows and it crashes a lot, read this instead
On Monday (11 June 07) Apple announced at the WWDC that they were releasing a beta version of their web browser, [...]
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