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With all the commotion around Appollo I forgot about another key player in the field: Google. Today they opened up the beta of Google Gears, a solution to run webapplications without the need of an internet connection. They achieve this by the means of a browser extension which is availlable for Firefox 1.5+ (OSX, Linux, [...]

In the Netherlands 'Flair' is a magazine read by teenage girls, containing tips for teenage girls. In Sun's dictionary it will be:
A self-supporting web programming kernel that's all written in JavaScript
Couldn't find much about it, but they seem to deem it the successor of the current AJAX model.... I'm curious... since it's still Javascript...
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I came across this demonstration video of Adobe's new crossplatform runtime:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/videos/apollo_demo07/index.html
Most of the stuff has been possible using Java Webstart for a couple of years now, but somehow I've got the feeling the people at Adobe are so fare ahead in the marketing department that Appolo won't have any problems surpassing Java Webstart at all.
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The small Rails app which I wrote for my wife broke down completely just after the installation of the new version of Rails (the 'mandatory' 1.1.5 and 1.1.6) by Dreamhost.
Couldn't get it to work at all, and no sensible logging info was produced...
At the end (took me about four hours) it started to work again, [...]

Testing your website for browser compatibility is a tedious job. Most projects don't have budget to test on to many browsers. A good tool to at least have an idea of how a pages looks in the different browsers is http://v03.browsershots.org/
The only actions needed to test your pages are:

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