Dave Balmer

IE8 is looming on the horizon for release into the wild later this year. It looks promising. According to what I’ve seen so far, it’ll be largely compliant with HTML 5 and the latest and/or greatest CSS specs from W3C. Awesome!

And yet… 30-40% of the installed Windows base out there seem to still have IE6, […]

For the first time in, well… a long time, I’m actually interested in getting a beta version of IE.

So far, I’ve spotted what looks like support for HTML 5 CSS transitions (physics-based animation of CSS properties), some document messaging thing which I haven’t played with yet, and client-side storage (SQL based persistent storage).

Thanks to Parallels, […]

“The SDK is free!”

Mostly. If you want to be able to distribute your apps to anyone else, you’ll need to fork over $99 to Apple. Oh and remember, you have to have OSX 10.5 to even run the version of XCode you need. So be ready for fork over another $130 if you’re a Mac […]

Here’s some JavaScript code for grins:

 
dave = {
show: function() {
this.style.display = ‘block’;
},
 
hide: function() {
this.style.display = ‘none’;
}
}
 

It seems to work, but it jams a ton of “style” tags into the source. Not a good example of coding for someone who does this sort of thing for a living. I’ll look for another plugin.

Hey, this thing looks like it just sort of… works. Without having to login and such, it’s a nice app.

MarsEdit 2 by Red Sweater Software

It’s pretty fast, and hooks up to Wordpress nicely. It has code editing which I prefer to WSYWIG, and the preview is decent. It supports category selection, and even lets you […]