Web dev: do we need to raise the bar?

Articles like this one and initiatives like “pre-fix the Web”, aim to highlight to web-developers how important is to build a cross-browser web. The importance of such a point has been explained in so many places, there is no point in me saying anymore. People like Tim Huegdon can give you a far better lesson on this. But if you are after a “one sentence to blame them all”: If you write a website caring only to test it on WebKit based browser (worse, only your iPhone!!!), you are a MORON. ...

February 21, 2012 Â· 2 min Â· 387 words

My Rhinoceros likes WebSocket, not leafs

Last week I started implementing W3C Sockets API into a Rhino based JavaScript runtime. It seems like plumbing API from one environment to another is one of the activity I do the most. And if you dare doing a joke about my Italian-ness and Super Mario… you will be pointed in the direction of the door. Here I want to share a couple of findings. Rhino is not bad at all Yes, I said it. And who has worked in the past with me, knows how my opinion are hard to change. But they do sometimes, fortunately. ...

February 14, 2012 Â· 2 min Â· 399 words