getElementsByClassName has always been a pain in the arse for us developers. Why it wasn’t implemented natively across the board is something that browser folk can chat about. Not having it available has caused hacks, workarounds, and bugs.
Firefox and Opera support the beast, and now Webkit has joined them:
The advantages of a native implementation are [...]
NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility:
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Kurt Vonnegut wrote about the benefits of editing. Moreover, it seems that the standard online is to edit errors in or update articles, even from sources like AP. Often times I find an article even has a new title.
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Russian ICBM’s aren’t the only thing the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will be tracking this Christmas, and Google (which is everywhere, and knows everything) is giving them a hand.
The annual NORAD Tracks Santa page is back, and this year it comes with some extra Google goodies.
For good boys there’s a YouTube Channel, that [...]
BravoNation, a site that allows users to send electronic awards to others, is the most recent product launch from Yahoo Brickhouse. Brickhouse head Salim Ismail sent me an invitation to try out the service this evening. I dove in – and this is one screwball product.
The point of Brickhouse (I think) is to come up [...]
Filed under: GPS, Handhelds, Portable Video
We’ll admit, HyOn’s D5 sure looks a lot like the Xent X3, but unlike its predecessors, this fancy navigator rocks a dual-DMB tuner. That’s right kids, this Korea-only unit sports a single integrated DMB module that supports both T-DMB and S-DMB, and if that wasn’t enough to get you in [...]
Roland Piquepaille writes “A new report from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) looks at the future of military’s unmanned systems over the next 25 years.
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IAC got serious about its Ask property this year, investing $100 million in the United States alone on a bizarre “Ask the Algorithm” campaign that even sunk to the depths of using the Unabomber as a marketing tool. Unfortunately for good taste there’s nothing like a bit controversy to draw attention to a service and [...]
Since Dean Edwards announced base2 beta he has been taking some time to describe it for us.
His latest installment is on base2 packages:
A base2.Package provides a mechanism for bundling classes, constants and functions within a closure. You can define what symbols you want to export from the Package and you can define the symbols [...]
Well, the waiting appears to be over, and the promised 2007 launch date was technically achieved. Wikipedia/Wikia Founder Jimmy Wales has publicly announced the private beta for Wikia Search – right now. And the public launch is set for January 7. In a note to the Wikia Search email list a few minutes ago, he [...]
Mozilla has launched yet another project from its labs: Mozilla Labs Weave:
As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information.
One important area for exploration is [...]
The Scottish government said Monday it would pay to insert advertisements discouraging drinking and driving into video games.
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
If you’re a musician of any type, odds are you’ve found yourself on stage more than once desperately hunting for some variety of esoteric adapter which is supposed to plug into a connector you’ve never seen before. Well, for those who’ve mounted Orbital style goggle-lights and gone digging into bottomless bags only [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Misc. Gadgets
We hate to get all teary, but we’re going to miss 2007. All things considered, it was kind of a monumental year for personal technology (and maybe even for us Engadget editors, too). But as it draws to a close it’s about time for our favorite moment of the year, where [...]
We are slowly finding more and more out about how nice IE8 is going to play. Markus Mielke
came out to tell us that hasLayout is a goner:
I do not think I am disclosing too much by saying that HasLayout will be history with IE8 (it was an internal data-structure to begin with and should have [...]