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So, running Mac OS 8 inside your brower is just so 90′s, ain’t we all supposed to run Mac OS X? Thus FlyakiteOSX, an “Aquafied” Mac OS X inteface implemented in Javascript and DHTML. Why wait for Mactel when you can have it now?

A new version of Scripturizer for Javascript has been released which will utilise ESV Popup Javascript if it is available. Download Scripturizer.js 1.2 Changes: Feature: If Scripturizer.version is “esvpopup”, and ESV Popup Javascript has also been loaded, then a link to popup ESV reference will be generated. If ESV Popup is not yet defined, it [...]

Moved! I have moved this project to my new programming/Internet blog — ESV Popup in Javascript. About ESV Popup is a Javascript you can use on your website that creates a small popup frame to display Bible verses from the English Standard Version Bible, using Javascript Syndication provided by the nice guys from Good News [...]

Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. Jesse James Garrett defines what Ajax (Asynchronised Javascript and XML) is, and how its combination with DHTML and DOM can change the way web application is written. Seems to be hottest thing since slice bread at the moment, except we’ve been using this “Ajax” model at work since [...]

Via del.icio.us/popular. Optimizing JavaScript for Execution Speed written by Andrew King. Many useful tips on screezing the last bit of performance from interpreted Javascript. Reducing variable lookup in context traversal and expensive property access seems to solve half of the problem.

Some changes to the Search Engine Highlight Javascript. Fixed a bug when multiple consective spaces are present in the query string. (Thanks to Gerardo Robledillo for providing the fix) Create anonymous function for window.onload in case it has already been assigned. Minor speed improvement by reducing copying. Go to Search Engine Highlight Javascript page to [...]

Moved! I have moved this project to my new programming/Internet blog — Scripturizer for Javascript. About This comment got me thinking – whether Scripturizer, implemented in PHP or Perl on the server side, is too difficult to use for people who have no scripting language or programming background. Dean Peter’s MovableType plugin version requires you [...]

One issue of Bill Zeller’s Staticize plugin for WordPress, which I have discussed yesterday, is its incompatibility with the Search Hilite plugin. Visitor landed on a cached page via a search engine query would not get keywords highlighted, and one must also turn Search Hilite off so that keyword highlights would not accidentally be cached [...]