mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 25 2008 | testing, browser, web development
Script browser simulations for web testing. IE specific - but a Firefox port underway.
http://code.google.com/p/firewatir/
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mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 22 2008 | patents, gps, browser, http
My patent (assigned to Microsoft) on using GPS data to augment a web browser request. This patent took 6 years(!) to issue (filed in 1998 and issued in 2004).
I'm not aware of any products using this now. The invention uses a new HTTP request header to send the user's GPS location. A GPS-aware server, can then respond with geo-targeted results AND provide a geo-graphic "expiration" zone (the comapatible browser will re-fresh automatically when the user leaves the valid zone).
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 29 2007 | kindle, ereader, books, amazon, browser, javascriptDeb just got her Kindle last night. I think the Kindle is GREAT. Yes, it is easy to accidentally hit the right-hand Next-Page button when holding a Kindle. But I hold it at the bottom when reading so it's not a very bad problem - just a minor annoyance.
Features I like:
- Display is GORGEOUS! High resolution and awesome contrast. For print - better than an LCD display.
- I don't think it looks cheap at all. The device feels light weight, but solid.
- Interface is simple an intuitive.
- You can bookmark, annotate, or "clip" whole pages to save markers, or your thoughts. Your clippings file can be transfered to a computer (via USB only, I think).
- Downloading content (without a PC) to a Kindle is fast and frictionless.Kindle comes with a Web Browser (in the experimental section) - I've not seen any developer information on the functionality of the Kindle browser (though it DOES have javascript support). I wonder if there will be a market for Kindle-optimized or Kindle-specific web sites (as their have been for the iPhone).
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 14 2007 | safari, google, mobile, browser, open source
The Android/Google Phone browser is based on WebKit.
Quoted: WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. This website is also the home of S60's S60 WebKit development.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 13 2007 | graphics, browser, firefox, canvas, drawing
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 04 2007 | firefox, browser, blue dot
Social Network integration experiment in the Mozilla (Firefox) code base. They are looking to use existing services for the backend - we should see if Blue Dot would be a good way to do this!
Quoted: The idea is to use RSS subscriptions to existing web service data feeds as a transport mechanism for all the various functionality. It will be up to us to cleverly mask this, but I'm thinking:
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 10 2007 | javascript, graphics, browser, ie, firefox, ajaxTHIS is cool. First person shooter in JavaScript using the Canvas tag. Works in both Firefox and IE 7!
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 30 2006 | gps, patents, web, browser
The last (of 3) patents I wrote at Microsoft. I felt at the time that this patent had a pretty broad scope - but relies on the convergence of GPS and Web browsing technology. I filed this in 1998, but not issued until 2004 (2 years after I left MS).
There are probably many infringing products now - I don't know if Microsoft is enforcing this patent or not.
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 20 2006 | ie, browser, debugging, tools
mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 03 2006 | firefox, browser, ie
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