Wiiality Check
By Mims Wright | on November 12, 2006
In User Interface Design, Video Games | 3 Comments
Last week, I had a chance to demo a Wii at the Nintendo World Store and these are my impressions…
Flash And Mozilla To Share Code
By Roger Braunstein | on November 7, 2006
In AS3, News, Programming, Serious Stuff | No Comments
This is huge news! Adobe has just contributed the virtual machine running in Flash Player 9 to be Mozilla’s implementation of ECMAScript 4. Read Tinic Uro’s announcement here or the story on CNN here.
What an enormous and generous contribution! Macromedia, and then Adobe, surely spent thousands of developer-hours on this VM. Beyond that, it is fully tested, optimized, and proven by its real-world use in Flash 9 and Flex 2 apps. Adobe well deserves a round of applause for giving it to the open-source Mozilla project, and hopefully both products will be bettered by their common codebase.
Furthermore, Adobe is committing to a continued relationship with the Mozilla project:
Adobe has a dedicated team for this open source project, including Dan Smith, module owner, and Jeff Dyer and Edwin Smith — Adobe engineers who worked on the original source code. Contributions to the Tamarin effort will be managed by a governing body of developers from both Adobe and Mozilla.
This is taken from a good FAQ hosted at mozilla.org which might clear up a few questions.
Kayak
By Mims Wright | on November 6, 2006
In Site-seeing, User Interface Design, XHTML / CSS / JS | No Comments
Kayak is a great site for searching for flights. You probably already know about this but I just heard about it today. It’s built on everyone’s favorite web technologies and is generally a lot simpler and nicer to use than the others. It also looks like they’re working on some other fun things.