August 2nd, 2008 | Published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs
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
.
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.
Google Calendar supports CalDAV: This is experimental, but means that you can kick up iCal and have bi-directional sync.
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.
Finally, Google Developer Day is coming to Europe, so if you are in that neck of the woods in September and October, please stop by!