http://waynepan.com tech | js | ui | ajax | life | mobile Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:07:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just realized why Apple is willing to sell the iPhone for $199. No it's not the kickback from AT&T. It's the apps! They're undoubtedly losing money on the device and banking on the fact that people will purchase so many apps over the life of the device. Sound familiar? Yup, it's ... http://waynepan.com/2008/06/09/199-for-3g-iphone/ I just installed the ShareThis button on this blog so I cracked open the javascript payload. You can view it here. In short, it's horrific! It pains me to see this because this is a widget which means this code is running a million times a day! First, let's get some ... http://waynepan.com/2008/04/21/dissecting-sharethis-widget-bad-javascript-code/ I had the pleasure of attending the first Javascript SF meetup at the Hi5 offices a couple days ago. It was a rather large turn out with some great demos. The main themes of the night were Canvas and Javascript frameworks to develop desktop apps. A few thoughts on the ... http://waynepan.com/2008/04/20/report-first-javascript-sf-meetup/ I've been developing a small app using Google's AppEngine. My first impression is that developing in the sandboxed python environment forces you to KISS. The SDK makes things dead simple in terms of templating, data access, and controlling which scripts map to which urls. The side affect of abstracting the ... http://waynepan.com/2008/04/14/appengine-first-impressions/ Russell Beattie's Mowser is shutting down and boy is he bitter. ... the general answer is that I don't actually believe in the "Mobile Web" anymore, and therefore am less inclined to spend time and effort in a market I think is limited at best, and dying at worst. ... In ... http://waynepan.com/2008/04/14/mowsers-founder-is-bitter-thinks-mobile-web-is-dead/ Simply watch the video above.. This is the first iPhone app I've seen that takes advantage of it's unique abilities. Imagine this game with OTA multiplayer built in! I'm a sucker for good puzzlers so I just might have to pick up the non-existent iPhone 3g.ShareThis http://waynepan.com/2008/04/09/taking-advantage-of-iphones-unique-control-trism/ Tonight Google releases Google App Engine and TechCrunch.com has the coverage. The biggest news is that App Engine is free to use up to a certain amount, like all other Google developer services. (As I previously postulated.) Pricing after the free period has yet to be determined. Applications cannot use more ... http://waynepan.com/2008/04/07/google-app-engine-no-aws-killer-python/ PPK, of quriksmode.org fame, has been busy updating his events compatibility table and has uncovered some interesting bugs in the mousemove event. When doing my new mousemove test I found a bug in IE5-7 that I was previously unaware of. When the user moves the mouse over the element, the mousemove ... http://waynepan.com/2008/04/07/quirky-mousemove-event-firing/ Dave Winer offers a compelling reason on why Google would offer it's Web Services (AWS competitor) for free. (That is if they actually release one like I predicted for this year.) The basic premise is that if GWS were free, Google could reap the benefits of having a whole heap ... http://waynepan.com/2008/03/31/google-web-services-should-be-free/ As most everybody knows by now the IE team will increase IE8's concurrent connections to 6 (from 2). Now there are rumblings that the next FF3 beta will follow suit and increase the default to 6.The HTTP/1.1 standard recommends 2 which at the time made sense. In the world of broadband, ... http://waynepan.com/2008/03/21/ie8ff3-going-to-6-parallel-connections/