The Technicals

Witango Studio 6, the long awaited update to the current version (5.5) is finally in beta. Macintosh users are getting to play with it right now and us Windows users are patiently waiting our turn. What has changed? Everything from the ground up, according to the development team. This time they built the whole development studio from the ground up using Java. As soon as I get a chance to play with it I’ll report on what is new.

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A few months ago Mozilla announced that the organization will only continue to support version 1.5.0.x of the browser through late April. The information came via a security update for both Firefox 1.5 and 2.0, with an extra note saying that the older version will be “maintained with security and stability updates until April 24, 2007.” After that date Firefox 1.5 will no longer receive updates from Mozilla and all remaining users should upgrade to Firefox 2 if they want to keep receiving updates to the browser.

To keep it interesting, Firefox 3.0 is already well into Alpha (version 5 comes out next week), Beta 1 is expected in July of 2007, and they have posted an estimated release of November on their roadmap. You can get more details from the release schedule posted on the Mozilla website. Curious what they are up to? So were we. Mozilla has a site just for us developers stating some of what’s new. Some cool css improvements, a move to javascript 1.8, support for regular expressions, and much more.

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We had a situation requiring up and down buttons, and we wanted them to scroll a list. The catch is how to animate the scrolling. Here’s how we did it. Continue Reading »

Firefox add-ons, also known as extensions, and sometimes confused with pluggins, have completely cemented our loyalty to Firefox as a development tool. Why? Because these little tools are so powerful, and Firefox has provided significantly more options than Internet Explorer or Safari. Not sure what add-ons are? They are small pieces of software that add new features or tiny tweaks to your browser. Many are useless, but some are absolutely spectacular.
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I know it’s super simple, but I’ve been banging my head on text layout for a couple of hours. I wanted 2 text boxes to have less space between them (leading) than the default. After trying many approaches, I finally figured out that I can set a negative paddingBottom to achieve the desired effect. Continue Reading »

Version control allows multiple people to work on exactly the same piece of code without overwriting each others’ work. Each person works on their own copy, and, once they have it finished and debugged, they merge it back into the main repository.
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We use icons, images & photography all over the place within user interface, web and software design. Since we seem to spend a fair amount of time searching for them, I decided to put up a blog that keeps track of what we find. Any of the crew is welcome to add to this – in fact please do.
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After a great deal of messing about, I’ve managed to add CAPTCHA (image based verification that you are a human and not a spam bot) to Joomlaboard forum 1.1.5 in the GEOSS Registry Site. Here’s how I did it:
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Flex has its own printing package (mx.printing) which adds functionality to the flash.printing package, making it easier to format output (slicing and paginating).