Web Info & Tutorials

Google has open sourced the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

Version 1.3 RC is an open source version of 1.2.

Not all open source is equal. What does this mean to us?

Google Web
Toolkit 1.3 RC is open through and through, including the debugging
browser and the powerful Java-to-JavaScript compiler. Now everyone
from enterprise developers to weekend programmers can study the
toolkit, tweak it and build on top of it.

What’s more, we’re making the Google Web Toolkit development process
completely transparent. Design discussions, feature prioritization,
bug fixing and roadmap planning will take place in an open Google
Group. We’ll even post the notes from Google’s internal Google Web
Toolkit meetings. (Yes, you heard that right.) And if you want to,
say, include the documentation in a course reader or publish it in a
podcast, go right ahead: it’s covered by a Creative Commons license.

• Community guidelines
• Source code
• Compiled binaries
• Main product page

Brad Neuberg and his team has announced Hyperscope 1.1.

What is HyperScope?

The HyperScope is a high-performance thought processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to documents in sophisticated ways. It’s the brainchild of Doug Engelbart, the inventor of hypertext and the mouse, and is the first step towards his larger vision for an Open Hyperdocument System.

The HyperScope is written in JavaScript using the Dojo toolkit and works in Firefox (recommended) and Internet Explorer. It uses OPML as its base file format. It is open source and available under the GPL.

What’s new in 1.1

The 1.1 release had three primary goals:

• Get a high-quality HTML transformer up on the network, especially for working with the W3C’s documents
• Bring HyperScope architectural document up to date
• Fix some small bugs

And for a bit of fun, check out the Paper Airplane research paper/project. Get a feel for a two way web.

Jonathan Weiss has free edition 0.2. of his tooltip.js library:

The newborn edition follows the pussyfoot aright on Firefox (thanks to choreographer TerMarsch) and crapper administer a unceasing delta when displaying the tooltip. This crapper be multipurpose if your CSS rules allow unconditional orientating that crapper termination in a unceasing offset.

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Example

Creating tooltips from the denomination attributes automatically:

• Download tooltip.js
• View a springy demo