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I want to shape my own browser or at least modify a existing one so far that it meets my needs.
I want a fast browser (starting and running, not necessarily faster rendering) without any stuff I don't use and simple productive navigation (like Firefox + Vimperator + Tree Style Tab), only much more integrated into each other and a different GUI.
I was thinking about just looking into the current two top browsers chrome and firefox (open-source wise) and branch my own smaller version out of it.
By just using WebKit or Gecko I will have to implement all the Connection-stuff, too, but I really am not interested in doing that.
So my questions are:
Does it make sense to start off with a current browser and strip off certain features and the frontend and replace it with my own code?
Chrome or Firefox? Which one is less complex? I don't care much about Plugins and Extensions, so they aren't they pretty much even in features otherwise?
Thanks for your answers
p.s.: It's a just-for-fun at-home project, so please no "just use the browsers..."-stuff...
The best point would be looking at the webkit project: http://webkit.org/.
This is basically the skeleton for a browser or a framework to create a new browser.
Safari and konqueror were build using the webkit framework.
K-Meleon is an open source webbrowser that you're free to do as you like with. it's light weight and very easy to work with. I was looking at doing the same as you but decided on making my own in vb.
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
SeaMonkey is a very fast browser
http://www.seamonkey-project.org
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I'm primarily a server-side developer - not even web server stuff. But I'm finding more and more that I need to mockup user interfaces. This is in part to more senior roles doing overall product design, but there is some personal interest as well.
I'm wondering what would be a good UI toolkit to learn. I won't be making production user interfaces, and doing them as web apps would just be fine. I've been leaning towards learning jQuery as it has a graphing library I like to use (flot). Someone else at work is suggesting EXT-GWT.
Is there anything else out there? For straight up mockups I use Balsamiq, but sometimes I want to go a little past plain mockups and add some functionality.
Thanks.
If you're just after GUI libraries/frameworks, have a look at GWT and Vaadin.
You might want to also look at something like WaveMaker, which is a rapid application development platform. As well as allowing you to mock up simple GUI's it should make it easy to add in functionality as well.
I haven't used anything a lot except jQuery.
It has been great especially when you start using the UI and theming which makes quick work of standard things. It'd be a problem if you wanted anything outside the box because then you'd have to find a plugin or write your own. (both of which are fairly easy IMHO.)
If you use ExtJS, they also have a designer: http://www.sencha.com/products/designer
Even if you just go with ExtJS, Senchas has a lot of widgets that make prototyping much easier. ExtJS 4 will be shipping in a month or so. I'd start with it.
http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0-beta3/examples/
You can check out ForeUI. It makes working prototype and run as DHTML in browser. It's quite easy to learn and use.
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Tagged PDFs allow for the easy reflow and accessibility of PDFs. It seems like this would be a natural use case for using LaTeX, which advocates content over style. But as far as I can tell, there is no way to create a tagged PDF with MikTeX 2.8.
Does anybody know of any tips, tricks or techniques to get a tagged PDF through LaTeX without resort to the commercial version of Adobe Acrobat?
Hmm, well, yes, sort of.
There isn't really sophisticated support for tagging, and what there is, is implemented in pdftex/luatex. Support for bookmarks and in-document cross-references is done using tagging. There's also been some more sophisticated work shown at TUG conferences, but this is all in the pipeline for now.
Context/luatex has better support that Latex for this sort of thing: there's some support for interactive documents using Context's layers, where the contents of the layers change when buttons are clicked in the PDF. I think this must be done using tagging.
I've never heard of anything like embedded forms, digital signing, or embedding the Latex/Tex/Context source in the resulting PDF, but in principle this is all possible.
I've the same question with pdfLatex in general and found this:
http://sarovar.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=945&group_id=106&atid=495
But I don't test it till now.
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Are you planning in requiring Google's Chrome Frame in production for your own websites?
Have you tested it?
Would your opinion on wether to use it or not change if Google were to require it for Youtube? (It will be required for Google Wave)
I wish they would require everyone who views YouTube to use it. I hate programming specifically just for IE... If it were required for YouTube I don't think that any of the users I care about would lack it.
I had a hard time finding info about big sites that require GCF, so I was a bit worried about requiring it for IE 6 and 7.
But I went ahead with it on a site with 6-digit number of monthly users, and the results were great.
IE 6 and 7 usage bombed, and about 90% of that usage was picked up by GCF. Only a few complaints from annoying users, but telling them to "just click install" has been a good enough solution.
The users lost were also less likely to purchase than those with better browsers.
I am aware of at least one site that now points to it rather than saying they don't support IE6.
If you've made the decision to not support IE6, for whatever reason, it at least gives the opportunity for more users to maybe* access your site.
*I say 'maybe' because if users aren't able to upgrade their browser it's quite unlikley they're able/allowed to install such extensions/plugins either.
I always wait a bit before picking up new technologies such as this. I'm a patient person and don't feel the need to rush out and get the latest thing first.
Once the consensus is that it looks ok, runs ok and won't hurt me or my nearest and dearest I'll have a look.
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After seeing a friend using RapidWeaver and producing wonderful results in a few clicks, I was astonished and started searching if a tool like that exists for Windows. Unfortunately, so far my search yielded no result, so I'm writing here the criteria I'm using hoping that anybody will come up with a relevant suggestion:
WYSIWYG HTML editor
Must work (well!) on Windows (Vista/7)
Must not be web based (I don't care about webapps allowing me to create sites off of crappy templates)
Template-based (and possibly with many templates available)
Pretty flexible (nothing like Dreamweaver, but I wouldn't like being stuck with just entering text into some prebuilt templates)
Intuitive (and possibly good looking) UI
Producing standards-compliant markup (office-like HTML is not an option)
Here is what I don't care about:
Price/License (if it's commercial it's probably even better for my purpose, as if the tool is good I will want fast, quality support)
Good code editing features (when I'll get my hands dirty with the markup I want things to be looking already pretty good so I'll just have to improve certain areas based on my requirements...)
Server-side scripting (I'm handling that otherwise, for this tool I just care about the design part)
Here's a list of commonly recommended tools I consider unfit for my needs:
NVU
KompoZer
Microsoft Expression Web
Microsoft Visual Web Designer
Adobe Dreamweaver (good, but too good for my needs. At this stage, I'd prefer something quicker, even if it means having lower quality html)
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
Probably too late, and not sure if this helps you anyway:
http://www.artisteer.com
http://www.xara.com/eu/products/webdesigner/
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There are a million and one CMS' that do a good job but the interface and usability of it let the entire system down (like a lot of websites out there).
Whenever I need to develop a bespoke system for content management I always try and draw on my past experiences and those of my clients to work out what works well and what doesn't. So each time I do one there is a similarity to the last but with some extra tweaking to make it that much better.
So the question is what CMS interface / features have you found a pleasure to work with and why?
Note: This could be editing pages, products, sitemaps, just about anything you needed to manage through a CMS
I personally think inline-editing is a massive speed boost for clients and developers.
Drupal 6's draggable menu reordering is a great feature. It is faster and more intuitive than the weight system from Drupal 5 and the up/down arrows I have seen elsewhere.
I agree with jchrista, drag-and-drop is very nice. This is the feature that initially drew me to Sitefinity. There is an online demo of this here.
I hate InterWoven (just because I find it slow and non intuitive--subjective..), but it has a nice WorkFlow setting that enables you to control the versions you have on the server between what you have been working on and what should be deployed.
Also a good (go back to before the screw up) productivity tools
MOSS has lots of interesting features that are supposed to do the same thing also, which I will look forward to test as we move towards that platform.