Opera has just filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft, I generally support this move. Microsoft have put in some effort on IE7, but its too little too late as far as I see it.
Continue reading Opera ask Microsoft nicely?.
I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Leopard last night. Some cool stuff in this release; some other things not so cool.
Continue reading Bitten by the Leopard .
Came across an interesting blog post by Mark Figley on PHP and Java - Best of Both Worlds? I see an awful lot of sense to this relationship and I am excited about the potential of scripting languages running inside the JVM. IBMs Project Zero and QEDWiki application are strong indicators that Big Blue are taking PHP seriously. Systems like the Zend Framework are even more reasons to consider PHP for rapid development. So with pure Java implementations of PHP like Quercus we can only expect PHP to shine even brighter. Best of both worlds? Damn close..
Recent discussions on CSS3 are showing that a lot is being said and nothing much is being done. Alex Russell has a good write up A giant serving of FAIL, I mostly agree with Alex's main points. Hixie was on the money months ago about the working group being irrelevant.
Continue reading Commentary on CSS3.
Ext 2.0 continues to move forward with some cool new features. The Ext team has been focused on enhancing the desktop-like experience, adding new functionality, improving
performance and keeping the overall file size down. Take a look at the Ext 2.0 examples.
Some impressive depth of field experiements by Ricardo Cabello aka Mr.doob, using Papervision3D and Tweener, a very powerful and easy to use tween engine.
