How do you
like your Code Review? Choose from text to audio
(iTunes)
and video.
We have had a varied
couple of weeks, so I decided to turn on the camera, even though I am in Eldora, Colorado, up
in the mountains.
First up, the Open Web Foundation. I discuss the new foundation and
what it is trying to accomplish (not another standards org!).
Then we
stay on the topic of the Open Web and browsers, and how Vladimir Vukićević has an promising
implementation of Canvas in IE. excanvas has done this for awhile
by first emulating VML, and more recently with a Silverlight bridge. Vladimir is a Mozilla
hacker, and he managed to shoehorn the Firefox Canvas code in via an
<object>.
We have worked out how to license our code, but
what about the other stuff that a project has? What about the documentation, the samples, the
protocols? The Google Code team now allows
you to choose a content license to cover those bases. Just a simple drop down away
in your project hosting area.
Elsewhere, in Google Code land, the
code review tool that we talked about early has now made its way to Google Code. Now
you can say "Looks Good To Me" to your buddies source code as he puts in a new commit on your
new opensource project.
Now you have the new tools, how about searching over that large amount of
code that we are putting out there? Code
Search just got a lot better with rich outlines showing you meta data on the file
that you are in, and hyperlinking includes and such.
Moving to Ajax and
the Web for a second. One of the common requests that we have had since we launched the AJAX
Libraries API, is to be able to access the Google hosted popular opensource libraries on https
as well. And, now
we do. If your application is on https and you don't want users to see any "mixed
content" messages, go ahead and use https on us too!
Google
XML Pages (GXP) is a templating system we use at Google. Its main focus is markup:
we mostly use it for generating HTML and XHTML, but it can work with other flavors of XML,
like Atom, KML, and RSS. It also has some support for a few non-markup languages (JavaScript,
CSS and plain text), though mostly for embedding them within markup.
Check
it out and see how some of the Google products do the view side of MVC on the Web.
QR
Code in Charts API: QR codes are 2D bar codes. You can store anything you want, but
commonly people put URLs and contact information in there, that mobile phones can quickly
scan.
