Archive for April, 2006
Playing around with XUL and SVG
I plan to continue the tutorial, sorry, just too busy.
Today, let’s play around with XUL, SVG, and JS.
Let’s make a std window with some SVG for fun.
<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<?xml-stylesheet href=”chrome://global/skin” type=”text/css”?>
<window title=”SVG Demo”
xmlns=”http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul”
xmlns:svg=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”
xmlns:html=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”
id=”svg_demo_window”
style=”width: 100%; background-color: #CCCCCC;”
pack=”stretch”
onload=”loadUp();”
>
<script type=”application/x-javascript” src=”svg_demo.js” />
<svg
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Netgear Skype Wifi Phone available for Pre-Order
The NetGear Wifi phone for Skype is now available for preorder with a hefty price tag of $249.99. Ouch.
I’m sure it’s good for a first product, and it looks nifty. Hopefully cheaper ones will be coming out at some point as tech advances.
FF 1.5.0.2 Release
Gonna try to continue the tutorial today, I promise. Until then, check out the fixes for the 1.5.0.2 branch of firefox over at burning edge
No Part 3 today
No Part 3 on the XulRunner tutorial today. Sorry everybody, just got busy with work. I’ll push for it tomorrow.
XUL editor Tag, or: Performing Moz Voodoo
Ok, so you’ve got your editor tag in XUL, looks nice, works ok. How do you get the data out?
Well, it’s INCREDIBLY simple, and hard as hell to find. I’m posting this so there’s at least 1 more place to find it.
So I’ve got this:
<pre>
<editor src=”about:blank” id=”testeditor” editortype=”html” type=”content-primary” flex=”6″ />
<button label=”Edit” oncommand=”document.getElementById(’testeditor’).makeEditable(’html’,false);”/>
<button label=”Source” oncommand=”alert(document.getElementById(’testeditor’).contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML)/>
<button […]
Culled from the Web
I saw this, VoiceTronix.
The OpenPCI series is our new entry level CT hardware platform offering four (4) and eight (8) Loop-Start (FXO) or Station (FXS) ports on a PCI 2.2 bus interface running on Linux.
With Asterisk compatability, and coming soon, FreeBSD support. Nice.
IBM’s new Ajax Toolkit for Eclipse requires XulRunner.
Interested in Firefox […]
Mozilla SIP Client
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, check out Zap! the Mozilla SIP Client. Not done, but it looks like it’s come a good ways.
XulRunner and Rails Tutorial, Part 2: Connecting the Two
Read Parts: One
Two
Today we’re going to Connect Rails to our new XulRunner app. Sounds easy enough, right?
Well….
Let’s start on the Xul side of it. All this XmlHttpRequest stuff is crap. And Ajax is Ajax+J.
Under the xul/content directory, let’s create a new one called “js” to store all of our javascript in, and let’s create another […]
Asterisk to connect to Google Talk
Looks like Asterisk will be able to connect directly to Google Talk in the near future, according to this article I saw at Asterisk VoIP News Blog.
Xul(Runner) and Rails Tutorial, Part 1: Introduction and Setup
Read Parts: One
Two
Please Note: I’m not the first to do this. Check out that app, very nifty.
But now I’m going to give it a go.
For this demo app, we’re going to create a simple online forum based in XUL with a Rails backend.
First up, gotta boot up RadRails and start a new project, and we’ll […]
XulRunner 1.8.0.2
I don’t think it’s official, and I don’t think it’s the final version of 1.8.0.2, but it is in the stable builds for the 1.8.0 branch. Get it here. I hate to do it, but I’ve spent all day working on a crash problem, and switching to 1.8.0.2 fixed it no problem. Just wanted to […]