Video Dot Yahoo Dot Com

Major props to my fellow webdevs for burning many gallons of midnight oil to get this new site up and running. I especially dig the channels feature - you can aggregate your own videos or create playlists of videos which you can then share. Great work!

Krunch - archive your files online

This is an interesting site which combines compression and file hosting in one location. You can upload files, compress them, uncompress, etc. etc. Extra points for latest and greatest web trendy styling.

Torque -- future of casual (browser) games?

From Suttree comes an interesting article about how embedding the Torque engine in a browser might spark a new rise in web based games.

The Duck that Swallowed an Alien

From the site: "An X-ray of the stomach of a wounded duck that died at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Cordelia contains the uncanny image of an alien's face, researchers said Thursday."

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ALE: Ajax Linking and Embedding

From the site: AJAX Linking and Embedding (ALE) provides the ability to embed rich content into an editable document and to then interact with and edit that content in much the same way as it is done with traditional office suites and applications in a desktop environment. - Thanks to ajaxian for the link.

New DHTML MMO: Nowhere Else and Beyond

From the site: Nowhere Else and Beyond is the first Web RPG that allows players to explore exotic locations in 2D or 2.5D, interacts with other players, or builds your own islands and creates quests. The best part is it's free and it runs within your browser and works on all platforms without any download.

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New Firebug released - now with a builtin debugger!

From the site:


FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.


edit: thanks to folks for letting me know I posted the description in the url as well.. duh.

where's andrew?

You are probably wondering (ok, probably not) where's Andrew and what's he up to? Why dont I post things daily?

Well, apart from being really busy creating things like livsearch at yahoo, I have several irons on the fire. One of those irons is a web based mmo. What will it be like? Well, all's you gotta do is go back into the past of this blog and look at my ideas - perhaps that will help formulate some of what it will be like. If you are in the small select croud of people who bother to read this blog, and want to be in on the pre-alpha, feel free to email me. Triptych --- at --- gmail ---- dot ----- com.

Scriptographer - use javascript to control Illustrator

This is a very nifty add-on for Adobe Illustrator which lets you control it via javascript. Very snazzy!

Adobe Labs Spry DHTML library

Looks like Adobe is working on a DHTML library. I wonder if they will use this to make a DHTML version of Flex like Laszlo is doing for LZX...

This is HUGE! YUI libraries updated and open sourced!

You know what's bigger than big? The fact that the core libraries that I use on a daily basis here inside Yahoo! have been released to the world with all of the engineering, browser compatibility, all the CSS workarounds, and tons of new features, widgets, and other jiggery pokery. If you do any DHTML you would be cheating yourself not to go download and try out all this great stuff -- not just the DHTML stuff but the CSS grids are huge in and of themselves. Imaging creating a page that looks great in all browsers and degrades gracefully in older ones with a minimum of work!

Shweeeah this is gewd stuff!

Alltheweb Livesearch (beta)

It's interesting to write about something I've been working on exclusively for a while now. This Livesearch thing is a site that suggests to you terms that are most like the term it thinks you are typing. It has tons and tons of AJAX goodness - popup windows, dynamic content, event handling, you name it. Thanks to the YUI platform codebase we were able to conceptualize, design, and implement this site in a suprisingly small amount of time. I hope you enjoy playing around with it!

Neutrality of the Net

Tim Berners-Lee talks about how the net needs to stay neutral. A good read.

Dynamic Drive - Style Sheets

Here's some really snazzy CSS demos from Dynamic Drive.

Slot Online - java based rpg

I love old style crpgs (like Zelda), and if you have an interest as well then give this a look.

AFLAX Canvas

AFLAX is coming out with a neat new drawing layer that will use canvas style calls to create images - it will use canvas, flash or even DHTML divs to create images. Nifty!