Archive for May, 2007

XTech over

A lively XTech is over. After some wandering and (too) much train I�m again in (too) sunny Italy. Circumstances of the presentation were a little adventurous�wi-fi wasn�t officially available, and what do you do when you want to demonstrate an instant messaging application and there�s no network to talk to a remote partner? Easy: you program an assistant robot and run it on localhost. (Easy? Um, ok.)[ READ MORE ]

SamePlace spinoffs #1: CSS Query

Before: 


var xulScriptlet;
var blueprint = document.getElementById('blueprints').firstChild;
while(blueprint) {
    if(blueprint.getAttribute('class') == 'scriptlet')
        break;
    blueprint = blueprint.nextSibling;
}

var xulScriptlet = blueprint.cloneNode(true);
xulScriptlet.getElementsByAttribute('class', 'name')[0].value =
    scriptlet.info.name;
xulScriptlet.getElementsByAttribute('class', 'version')[0].value =
    scriptlet.info.version;
document.getElementById('scriptlets').appendChild(xulScriptlet);
After...