Exciting Stuff happening
Ok, so I’ve been out of the loop for awhile. Sorry, been very busy, but back for now.
First Off, Firefox RC1 is out and available. Complete with SVG, JS 1.6, CSS 2 and 3 and lots of other cool stuff.
Some other cool stuff, from Devmo: Info on the Canvas Project(Awesome).
There’s great info on AJAX as well. Although, when using AJAX, I really do prefer to use JSON although XML has it’s uses.
There’s a great presentation on SVG, Canvas, and Cairo(coming with Moz base 1.9!!). Devmo’s SVG page is great also. As is their XUL page. Man, Devmo is awesome.
Also, you can find all you need to combine SVG and XUL here. Definately useful. The page is ok, but the example is all you need. =)
Ok, and then there is the BIG THING. The Extend Firefox competition with the kickass PC prize. With the Firefox Design.
Damn. That’s all I’m saying.
Oh yeah, I’ve been working on some stuff myself…
I’ve been doing the big XUL CRM software project to make it ready for Firefox 1.5, switching AJAX to AJAX+J(With JSON) and it runs a much faster to boot(both because of 1.5, and JSON). I actually had converted the calendar/appointment code to JSON earlier to speed it up(the xml parsing took up way too much time, although I believe it’s been sped up in FF1.5).
I’m also working on a Shadowrun 4 character generator. You can find it here but you need FF1.5 to install it and run it(Actually, just to install it). I’m actually using JSON exported data as the local data and it’s running pretty quick, and much smaller than XML dumps. Although, it will save in XML as well. And since the data is json encoded from a MySQL database, I can re-export it as XML(or whatever) later. Tech is cool when it all works together. And thanks to the great localization abilities of the XUL development framework, it supports multi languages. Also, it has auto-update(anyone know how to force a check from within the XUL? Let me know). And, it’s cross platform to boot(I haven’t tested it yet). So all those who didn’t have a generator on *Nix or Mac can be happy as hell now. The code is incredibly simple, but there’s a lot of stuff I was able to program the CRM without learning(Localization, didn’t need it, Advanced Tree Structures and Programming, how did I miss it? Sorry I did! Preferences(about: config stuff). Updating(No need). and lots more stuff I didn’t need but am happy to now know).
Yeah, an RPG Character Generator is not really a browser extension, nor is a CRM. But until a stable version of XulRunner comes out, it’ll be that way. But hey, XulRunner is coming along rather nicely I’ve heard, and I wanna conver the stuff to use it and see how it is anyways. A character generator is simple enough, the CRM is a bit more work, but we’ll need to convert it at some point.
That’s all for now! Sorry I’ve been gone for awhile, I’ll try to make a point of posting every so often.
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Comment from jerome collins
Time: December 10, 2005, 12:18 am
like ideas about xul crm application
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