Celso Martinho

This is me using rfc2397. It will work if you're on >Firefox2, Opera or Safari3 and IE7 if you install this plugin. Won't work with IE6, like if anyone with this virus would visit my Blog.

What's the point of this and what's the relation to iPhone ?

Two points:

1. Here at SAPO we recently struggled to get a way to dynamically generate inline images on a web page, in all browsers. And it's not for the faint of heart. I've lost the status of this effort with our js guru but I know we all wished IE7 supported data:. But Redmond's code monkeys are hopeless when it comes to standards.

2. iPhone uses Safari3 and supports the data: URI method. This can actually be a hacksolution for two problems with the mighty device:. First the lack of a way to store a web application locally, secondly it can be used to workaround the much desired (and urgent for mobile devices) lack of web based offline storage APIs.

I'm a sucker for retro-gaming, you all know. Dave Dribin did an amazing thing. He got fed up with the clunky and stalled MacMAME project and decided to take things on his hand. So he created MAME OSX.

MAME OSX is not full featured but it has something very special. Dave hacked into MAME's source and ported it to work with MacOSX's Core Video and Core Image frameworks.

So now you can do all sorts of image, video and audio effects very easily, just for fun. It's the power of MAME with the power of OSX, in one software. Well done Dave.

Check this screencast I did:



Can't wait for Core Animation to be around