Today's flood of new programming links courtesy of a gigantic backlog of unread RSS feeds.
mozBlog: "[Future improvements include] the new feature that automatically save draft posts. There are many future plans to go beyond blogging. Most of the ideas will be posted on my blog instead of in the bugzilla. One feature already in pipeline is to publish to disk, since I found mozblog useful while researching on the internet. Which is an accidently idea coming out of the feature for saving drafts."
Danny Goodman:
While simple events have been part of the JavaScript vocabulary since the first scriptable browsers, more recent browsers implement robust event models that allow scripts to process events more intelligently. The problem, however, is that in order to support a wide range of browsers you must contend with multiple advanced event models. Three, to be exact.
An interview with David Flanagan:
The current schedule calls for the release of the ECMAScript version 4 standard sometime in 2002. Although the new version of the language has many compelling features, it is also much more complicated than the current version, and I don't expect it to be commonly used in Web pages any time soon. It may be adopted in other contexts sooner, however.
O'Reilly Network: Hierarchical Menus with the Underrated style.display Object.
More cool doo-dads on the XML/XSL Portal:
Sadly, this site crashes my browser a lot
David Flanagan on Java 1.4:
Java 1.4 has just been released. This is a major new release, with 62 percent more classes and interfaces than Java 1.3; needless to say, there are lots of new features. This article describes my personal favorite top ten new features, ordered from cool to extremely cool.