Monthly Archives: December 2011

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The Challenges of a JavaFX Reboot

In Jonathan Giles’s post An FX Experience Retrospective, he starts by looking at the history of JavaFX and focuses on “what has happened in the world of JavaFX” in 2011. I was highly skeptical of JavaFX prior to JavaOne 2010 (see here and here for exam… Continue reading

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Techdirt Writers Favorites Of The Week… And Year

Rather than picking one community member to handle the favorites this week Tim Geigner/Dark Helmet came up with the brilliant idea that this final favorites post of the year should be a group post from “the gang” of Techdirt writers (or at least those … Continue reading

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My Most Popular 2011 Blog Posts

In this post, I briefly summarize my “eight” most popular “2011” posts (six actually posted in 2011 and two posted in late 2010). The two common themes of these posts seem to be broad applicability and future focus. I expected a few of these posts to d… Continue reading

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WebKit Selector Performance Changes

Nicole Sullivan covers some of Antti Koivisto’s work on making CSS selectors faster in WebKit. Clever stuff, which Nicole helps make understandable for all of us. Mostly stuff that helps the browser “rule out” selectors more quickly. I hope other browsers can take the ideas and use them where they can and continue their own innovations. Selector performance is already something that we pretty much don’t need to worry about it, I’d love it if we never had to think …

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Rendering HTML Within JavaFX

JavaFX 2.0 allows for inclusion of HTML code within a JavaFX application using JavaFX 2.0’s WebView and WebEngine classes from the javafx.scene.web package. This post looks at a very simple example of how this can be done. Much more sophisticated appli… Continue reading

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New Year’s Message: From Optimism And Innovation… To The Power To Make A Difference

For the past few years, we’ve had a bit of a New Year’s tradition here at Techdirt. The “final” post I put up for the year is a discussion on, well, awesomeness. Three years ago, it was “on staying happy”, in response to people complaining that readi… Continue reading

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Responsive Multi Column Data Tables

Maggie Costello Wachs from Filament Group shares the best approach to responsive data tables I’ve seen yet. Remember the problem: exploring a large data table on small screen devices means a bunch of horizontal and vertical scrolling, which sucks. Her solution involves marking columns as “essential” and “optional” with CSS classes and hiding the optional ones with media queries at smaller screen sizes. Then to keep all the data accessible, providing a (dynamically created) dropdown of checkboxes to reveal the …

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Even In The Age Of Abundance It’s Quality, Not Quantity, That Counts

Seth Godin is nothing if not prolific. As well as publishing a string of popular marketing books with catchy titles like “All marketers are liars”, “The big moo” and “Small is the new big”, he writes short but smart blog posts every day, some of which… Continue reading

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Will Politicians’ Support For Draconian IP Laws While Ignoring Civil Liberties Issues Come Back To Bite Them?

I’m usually not one for the typical “end of year” summaries of what happened over the preceding twelve months, but Dave Kravets at Wired has put together an excellent post, bringing together a series of separate events that showed that politicians were… Continue reading

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DailyDirt: Just Add Alcohol…

The new year is just around the corner, and the New Year’s Eve parties wouldn’t be complete without a few alcoholic beverages. But if you want to try something a little different, here are some other ways to imbibe ethanol.

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