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stark raving finkle ramblings on software engineering: building teams, shipping faster, & breaking less I have been working on a small project that ports Python’s ctypes functionality to Mozilla’s XPCOM system. For those unfamiliar with ctypes, its a Python module that allows developers to declare and call exported methods from binary/shared libraries. Developers can then wrap these binary calls i

stark raving finkle ramblings on software engineering: building teams, shipping faster, & breaking less Firefox 3 is expanding its rich WYSIWYG editing capabilities by adding support for the contentEditable attribute. Setting contentEditable to “true” allows you to make parts of a document editable. Firefox already supports using designMode to make an entire document editable. Here is a previous p

stark raving finkle ramblings on software engineering: building teams, shipping faster, & breaking less SVG is a nice way to create vector graphics on the web and even embedded in HTML pages. Sometimes you might embed other markup into SVG and that’s where foreignObject comes in. From the W3 SVG1.1 spec: The ‘foreignObject’ element allows for inclusion of a foreign namespace which has its graphica

Introduction to XULRunner Mozilla platform runtime for deploying rich, XUL+XPCOM desktop applications More like developing DHTML web applications Less like developing MFC, WinForms and Delphi applications Core toolkit Support Standard and custom UI widgets Templated UI generation Script and binary components Supports native accessibility technologies Completely cross platform Application Support L

stark raving finkle ramblings on software engineering: building teams, shipping faster, & breaking less Big news for those of you following Firefox 3 development. Places, the new backend implementation for bookmarks and page history, landed last night and will be ready for Firefox 3a5. Here’s an overview from the Places developers page: Places is a re-write of Firefox’s bookmarks and history syste

stark raving finkle ramblings on software engineering: building teams, shipping faster, & breaking less Rich text editing is a feature that is finding it’s way into many new web applications. It’s becoming a feature that users can’t live without. We are also starting to see some graphical editing applications. In an effort to satisfy a potential, future, demand to have graphical editing everywhere

stark raving finkle ramblings on software engineering: building teams, shipping faster, & breaking less Inspired by Emil’s emulation of the canvas tag in IE, I put together a simple SVG emulation behavior for IE. As with Emil’s code, I am making use of Internet Explorer’s VML support. The behavior will walk the SVG element structure and attempt to convert to appropriate VML elements. It’s far from