December 2007
10 posts
Flickr Photo Download: 1 →
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Infamous IE hasLayout is toast →
We are slowly finding more and more out about how nice IE8 is going to play. Markus Mielke came out to tell us that hasLayout is a goner:
I do not think I am disclosing too much by saying that HasLayout will be history with IE8 (it was an internal data-structure to begin with and should have never been exposed). See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250481.aspx for more details.
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WebKit gets native getElementsByClassName →
getElementsByClassName has always been a pain in the arse for us developers. Why it wasn’t implemented natively across the board is something that browser folk can chat about. Not having it available has caused hacks, workarounds, and bugs. Firefox and Opera support the beast, and now Webkit has joined them: The advantages of a native implementation are clear: No additional JavaScript...
Coraline clip →
Our buddy Ward Jenkins has a holiday treat posted up at Drawn!
It’s a tiny mouth-watering clip from the new Henry Selick/Neil Gaiman stop motion film Coraline, now in production at Laika. The film is on track for release (in 3D) in late 2008 from Focus Features and should be one of the highlights of the year. Can’t wait!
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An Atheist, Damned to Hell →
JScript 5.7: Fixing IE6 →
Erik Arvidsson lets us know about the JScript 5.7 patch that is zooming out to IE6 users:
The JScript 5.7 patch is now being pushed to an IE6 computer near you… IE6 uses Jscript 5.6 which has some serious design flaws when it comes to garbage collections. This by itself prevented us from releasing Gmail 2 for IE6. After talking to the JScript team we (and others?) got them to realize that this...
Umeric →
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Guantanamo Officers Caught Modifying Wikipedia →
James Hardine writes “Wikileaks reports that US armed forces personnel at Guantanamo have conducted propaganda attacks over the Internet. (The story has been picked up by the NYTimes, The Inquirer, the New York Daily News, and the AP.) The activities documented by Wikileaks include deleting Guantanamo detainees’ ID numbers from Wikipedia, posting of self-praising comments on news...