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Brendan Eich seems to be saying that Firefox 1.1 will support ECMAScript for XML (atleast to some degree).

This follows Macromedia’s slip last week regarding E4X in Flash Player 8.

The Web Standards Project (WASP) have posted part 2 of the W3C’s response to their query re the correct way to include multimedia elements such as sound, animation and video in web pages. Bottom line in this final installment seems to be the obvious - the object element implementation varies across different browsers and developers should be aware of the variances. In order to accurately determine the level of support in different user agents they have created a test suite with results being collected here.

Here’s something I wasn’t aware of. Did you know that it’s possible to use the data attribute to embed the object directly (as opposed to refering to it via src).

Holy research period, Part 1 was originally posted back in June of 2004.

It seems that the new Flash Player will add ECMAScript for XML (E4X) to ActionScript. And it’s supposed to be faster than current XML support in the Flash Player.

It would seem that this tidbit was accidentally leaked on the flexcoders mailing list in a post here. I do feel for the fella who posted the message to the forum by mistake but I have to give him ponts for thoroughness. Not only does he mention that the Flash Player will support the feature but he also gives a great little E4X primer and even links to the ECMA spec documents.

Via pixelfliker.com

Tell me who will keep score for you
As we play everyday inside a
Deep karma canyon

Bob Mould’s (Hüsker Dü, Sugar) new album, Body of Song, which is due out in July has apparently been leaked on the internet. He’s been sharing some of his thoughts and reactions to it all on his blog:
http://modulate.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_modulate_archive.html#111685625676832228
http://modulate.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_modulate_archive.html#111689282301219915

A pretty level-headed response if you ask me. Especially considering he’s one of the artists that gets hurt the most by this kind of thing.

Google released a personalized homepage to beta earlier today. It allows you to add various modules such as weather reports, Gmail, driving directions and a few select RSS feeds to the search page. The tech behind it seems kinda cool but to be honest this is one of the main reasons I tend to avoid Yahoo - too much simultaneous information. I suck at multitasking.

Anhyow, links to a Cnet article and one from eWeek.

As well, Jeremy Zawodny from Yahoo seems a little bitter about it all:
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/004684.html
(That marissapr blogspot.com page he links to is good for a laugh).

Jack Christensen put in seventeen years building Queen Jean, a 50 foot wooden schooner, in his backyard. Then he gave it away.

Here’s an article in Quincy, Massachusetts’ Patriot Ledger from last spring:
http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2004/03/25/news/news04.txt

There’s a small piece in this month’s (well actually next month’s) edition of Sail magazine that provides a bit of an update. Apparently he wound up giving it to a private citizen as maintenance expenses would have been too steep for a charity.

Some upcoming Flash related macrochats:
Six Advanced Flash Video Techniques
Event Listeners in Flash

“Macrochats are free, online live technical discussions” hosted by Macromedia.

Some (not all?) past macrochats are archived here.

Been awhile.

I put in the first full (well, nearly full) day in the hayloft on the weekend. Everything came through the winter down time just fine (no nests in the boat) and it was nice to get back to it. I had missed the smell of epoxy but have to admit to being a little more cautious with exposure to the stuff since reading of kdog’s allergy woes on the bateau2.com builder’s forum. Epoxy allergies appear to be fairly rare but it seems like a wise idea to wear gloves and avoid any fumes (I actually find the epoxy resin to have a very low odour). Here’s hoping he’ll find a way to get his boat finished.

As for the Vagabond in the hayloft, my first order of business is to finish fibreglass taping the stringers and bulkheads in the hull. For some reason all winter I thought that I had only about 1/3 of that task left to be done. Turns out I’d only done about 1/3 of it. Perhaps instead of building nests in the hull critters were undoing my work?

I’m catching up on my reading so this may be old news.

It looks like an alpha of mozilla.org’s Devmo site has gone live here:
http://developer-test.mozilla.org/
They’ve gone with a wiki format and have posted a list of the Netscape DevEdge material that they’ve brought over thus far. Woot, the core javascript docs are in there:
http://developer-test.mozilla.org/docs/JavaScript

update: Woops, I forgot to title this entry. Fixed that.