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http://code.google.com/p/arora/

Arora is a simple cross platform web browser. Currently Arora is a very basic browser whose feature list includes things like "History" and "Bookmarks". It does not have support for netscape plugins, so no flash support until Qt 4.5. But it is small, less than 10,000 lines of code, very fast, lean, mean and loads of fun to hack on.

http://code.google.com/p/arora/wiki/Goals

To make rapid progress possible, we try to keep the code relatively easy to understand, straightforward algorithms and data structures are used when possible. Consistent code styling, clear, maintainable code, and we continue to improve names and code structure to aid understanding.

Arora

See Also

• http://webkit.org/
• http://nightly.webkit.org/
• JavaScript Benchmarking http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html

and

• Nokia acquires Trolltech http://www.qtopiagreenphone.com/28012008/28012008

Adobe have just sent me a copy of ActionScript Reference for RIA (released under creative commons by-nc/3.0) together with an O'Reilly Adobe AIR Pocket Guide ! That was very kind of them ! Thank you !

Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide

Mike Chambers

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Thank you tulrich for blogging (and creating ?) the Google Earth FireFox Plug-in and the Google Earth Monster Milk Float Game !

You can write Google Earth Plug-in apps using Javascript, including game-like things. It's pretty fun. It also integrates smoothly with Google Maps API sites; basically you just enable 3D, and most things will magically work.

http://www.google.com/earth/plugin/examples/milktruck/

Here are some Google Open Source Code projects that you might not have heard of ! Yet !

• http://code.google.com/p/android/
• http://code.google.com/p/adwords-api-php-samples/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-ajaxslt/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-checkout-php-sample-code/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/
• http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/
• http://code.google.com/p/pactester/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-mmaim/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-kongulo/
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/
• http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-resources/
• http://code.google.com/p/visigami/
• http://code.google.com/p/zxing/

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Had a fantastic day yesterday at the Adobe OnAir AIR 2008 Tour in London.

Adobe AIR brings Rich Internet Applications to the desktop of all three OS's ! You can use AIR to turn HTML file(s) and JavaScript file(s) into an executable for ANY platform - its a bit like "JVM + FileSystem + SQLite" !

AIR uses WebKit and is therefore compatible with your favorite JavaScript framework and even Google Gears !

Install the runtime, and check out the newest applications.

• Install Adobe AIR
• Download Adobe AIR SDK
• Install Showcase Applications

AIR for GNU/Linux ALPHA

• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

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I've been working on an inter window communication javascript library based on javascript built for Vox.  This allows  browser windows or tabs on the same domain to communicate and cooperate.  One use case for this is for comet connections.  Due to self imposed browser limitations, multiple connections to the same domain are limited to two connections and comet connections would produce odd behavior when multiple windows or tabs are opened on the same domain.  This is the first step in efficient use of a single comet connection across multiple tabs or windows.  This library would be used with another project of mine: Cometd: The Scalable Comet Framework

Check out my demo: Inter Window Communication

Note: Currently this only works in Firefox 2 and IE 5.1+