Justin looks at what YUI gets right in fostering third-party scripts. In particular he enjoys the inline documentation, which gets converted to an API reference using JsDoc Toolkit. I’ve long been interested in inline docs, but have not found a system that would not require more effort than writing the docs separately as we do now. (Relatedly: Prototype UI seems to be using Natural Docs.)
December, 2007
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Dec21
We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence.
— Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
Dec19
IE8 & Acid2">Thought: IE8 & Acid2
You heard it somewhere else first: IE8 reportedly passes the Acid2 test. I’ve seen many reports of this, but none of them have …
Six months in the jungle with Sean Penn [filming Casualties of War] is tricky, but he’s a real talented guy. I sent him a note at the end of it saying, “I can’t say that it was a pleasure, but it was a privilege.”
— Michael J. Fox
Dec13
To my amazement, USAspending.gov has launched. It’s a database of recipients of contracts and other assistance from the federal government. It’s worthwhile to read about the bill responsible for the site’s creation. Today I’m cheered by a small victory for information transparency in government.
Dec12
From John Resig: Bad Background Browser. This reminds me of the arrival/departure monitors at airports — one out of every 16 of those is guaranteed to have the XP “illegal operation” window in the center.
Dec11
Review: Mass Effect
This is perhaps the most gorgeous game I’ve ever played. More than half of the credit goes to stellar art direction; the game …
Review: Rock Band
I am so in love with this game that I don’t even mind how my bass pedal is ready to snap in half. …
Unfortunately, to start this incremental rendering, Safari requires a kilobyte of data at the beginning of the stream. In Orbited, we use 100 tags for this. But at some point we’ll perhaps switch this to some tasteful ASCII art.
— Jacob Rus
Dec7
Rails 2.0 released. Includes the 1.6.0.1 release of Prototype (which will see an official release very soon).
