Mozilla

I have been meaning to post this for a while now, so its kinda old news. The APNG format for animated PNG images is currently available in Firefox 3 alpha releases. I saw that the latest Opera 9.5 alpha releases also support APNG (look under Other Changes). I am glad to see support for the new format getting some traction.

After much fooling around, WebRunner 0.7 is ready to release. This release has some small changes and some big changes.

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 in pure Python.

Joel’s latest strategy letter is a long-winded diatribe on the current state of browser-based application development. There is some good stuff in there, but some of the metaphors are really stretched and the comparisons between desktop and web-based applications is a bit broken. Joel seems to think that web-based applications should support the same kind of features as desktop applications. This line of thought can only go so far.

Thanks to Douglas and the rest of the Carolina Open Source Initiative for putting on a great Software Freedom Day celebration at the University of North Carolina. There was a good bit of traffic through the event. We had plenty of people stop by our table.

This week I am joining Mike Schroepfer and Dan Portillio at the Carnegie Mellon career fair. Tuesday, September 18th 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. We’ll be in booth 111.

I was clickety-clicking my way around the Internet and came across the Connected Ventures website. The first thing that I noticed was the “bubble menu” system used on the site. Then I noticed it was written in Flash. Surely, I thought, SVG could be used to create bubble menus too.