Monthly Archives: July 2007

Introducing iSearch, A Search Page Optimized For The iPhone

Posted on July 28, 2007 by Julien Lecomte

I hacked a search page optimized for the iPhone. It uses the Yahoo! Search API and bits of Joe Hewitt’s iUI library. The address is: http://www.julienlecomte.net/isearch/ Developing a web application for the iPhone is actually easier than traditional web development … Continue reading →

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Exposing Extension Functionality to Web-Page Javascript

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Julien Lecomte

In this article, I describe how to implement a scriptable XPCOM Component. This type of component exposes some extra functionality to untrusted web-page JavaScript running inside a Gecko-based browser such as Firefox. The implementation itself will be done in JavaScript. … Continue reading →

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YUI-based Image Cropper Widget

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Julien Lecomte

I wrote a YUI-based image cropper widget that allows you to easily select which region of an image you’d like to crop. This widget works on all A-grade browsers in both standards mode and quirks mode. Attached is a screenshot. … Continue reading →

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IE6, CSS Sprites and Alpha Transparency

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Julien Lecomte

Image slicing using CSS, also known as CSS sprites, is quickly becoming a very popular technique in web development as it can dramatically improve the performance of a site by reducing the number of HTTP requests (see this article for … Continue reading →

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How to make a Bochs disk image

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Julien Lecomte

In this article, I try to synthesize several (incomplete or inaccurate) articles I’ve found on the Internet to guide you through the process of creating a disk image you may use with the Bochs emulator. The steps described below are … Continue reading →

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