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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Mozilla Monkeying Around with Tamarin

But in a really good way. Brendan Eich has announced 3 cool new projects around the Tamarin engine Adobe contributed to the Mozilla project:

ActionMonkey, which will merge SpiderMonkey and Tamarin. Not really a new project, but lots more details are available.
ScreamingMonkey, which will allow Tamarin to be invoked from within IE. Not clear to me [...]

OOXML Standardization: still ugly

Groklaw has an interesting article discussing one of the key problems with OOXML as a proposed standard. It quotes some ECMA-376 goings on in India:

While we wait, there is more on that front, this time from India, where the technical committee there is still considering Ecma-376 issues. Earlier, we mentioned to you some questions that [...]

iPhone’s Lack of SDK Explained?

Ars Technica has published a very thorough review of the iPhone. Well worth reading for a balanced perspective on what it does and doesn’t do well.
There was one thing in there that caught my eye, though. Something that I hadn’t seen previously, and that might explain why Apple hasn’t released an SDK:
Some disturbing revelations from [...]