Short Article on Google’s New Browser
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Here is a short article I wrote for OperaWatch on Google's new browser.
Here is a short article I wrote for OperaWatch on Google's new browser.
Opera and Flash under Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)
Monday, February 4th, 2008This is a short guide for people who want to use Flash with Opera under Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy): 1. Enabled the proposed repository in System->Administration->Software Sources. 2. Go to Synaptic and install the latest flash plugin from the proposed repository. 3. Go to Opera's website and install the 9.50 beta version. 4. Start ...
OperaWatch’s Founder Joins Opera Software
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006My good friend, Daniel Goldman, the founder of Opera Watch (a blog covering the Opera browser), just announced that he joined Opera Software as their technical evangelist. Congratulations! P.S. I should say that I am partly to blame since I introduced him to the Opera browser several years back.
Reverse Resolution of IP Addresses with AJAX
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006One of the things that came up recently at work is a way to resolve IP addresses to hostnames client-side without any server calls. Here are some of the possibilites that I thought off : o Using Javascript to call Java's java.net.InetAddress class to resolve (only works in Mozilla and Opera, ...
Opera 9 Released
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006Opera just released version 9 of their browser (see this).
Input Needed for a Story on Mozilla’s RSS Icon and Licensing
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006I am currently writing an follow-up full length article for OperaWatch on the Mozilla's RSS icon and its licensing. Unlike the previous OperaWatch story, this story is focused less on the Opera/Mozilla interaction and more on the actual RSS icon, its history, licensing issues and opinions of different communities involved. ...
Mozilla Trademarks Their RSS Icon?
Monday, June 12th, 2006My good friend Daniel Goldman posted an interesting story at OperaWatch regarding the fact that Mozilla required a singed agreement from Opera Software before allowing them to use their RSS icon. It appears that Mozilla filed for trademarks on this icon and is planning on enforcing a licensing policy. More ...
Saving and Loading Files from Web Pages via AJAX
Thursday, February 16th, 2006I recently ran across a nifty project called "TiddlyWiki". One of the things that struct me as interesting features from the programming point of view is the fact that it is able to load and save itself to the user's hard drive using Javascript without any kind of server side ...
Weird JavaScript problems
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006For quite some time I have been trying to track down a strange Javascript error. In one of the forms in our application, we have a dynamically generated set of DOM form fields generated on the fly via Javascript. Something like "document.myForm.appendField(field);". The page in question worked just fine in ...
Browser Differences in window.opener Behavior
Thursday, May 5th, 2005Among the more persistent bugs I have been chasing recently involves a set of interrelated windows. The case in point was a parent window (A) that opened a child window (B) via JavaScript. The child window (B) was set to check whether the parent window (A) is still open before ...
