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Firefox is really catering to its hacker base. I just found out about GreaseMonkey, the extension which allows the addition of arbitrary Javascript behaviour to specific pages. There are all kinds of mini-scripts, from the del.icio.us tag autocompleter to the Salon day pass automation script. Really cool.

• Under Gmail’s hood
• On rich web applications, AlphaBlox and Oddpost
• On GMail and DHTML architecture again
• JSLib User Manual
• NetWindows
• XUL Tutorial

Why Domain Keys is Broken

(sorry for the lame Bookmark category posts, but del.icio.us is returning 503s and I refuse to go back using normal browser bookmarks

My main gripe with window managers other than Windowmaker is the inability to confine applications to specific virtual desktops. I don’t like IM windows to popup over my terminal windows, or browser errors to popup over mail messages. Windowmaker allows one to set an app’s Initial Workspace, and so all windows appear in the designated workspace. No other window manager that I know of has this ability.

Not anymore. Devil’s Pie is a nifty utility that captures a window creation event, and moves it to the specified virtual desktop. It is supposed to work across a range of window managers.

Jon Udell has a nice intro to E4X, a proposed ECMAScript extension, for XML manipulation. E4x seems an approach to XML manipulation rather more traditional than XSLT. Some of this syntax is similar to PHP5’s SimpleXML and, much like SimpleXML, has a very “native” feel. It seems XML manipulation was built into the language from its inception.

It’s implemented in Mozilla Rhino. Let’s hope it gets implemented in SpiderMonkey so it starts spreading everywhere.

Explained in fourties style.

Interesting, free, tutorial generation tool: Wink. Output can be generated in a variety of formats, most interesting of which is Flash. Might be interesting to use in blog.com’s and in Portugalmail’s support.

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Slides here.