Well, not that my comments yesterday had anything to do with it (or even read by pink) but theres some good news for Camino 0.9:

As far as 0.9 goes, we’ve decided we need to shorten our timeline and get this baby out the door sooner rather than waiting for all the features we wanted. Nightly builds already have a lot of great improvements and we need to get into a cycle of releasing more often, not once a year. That means some features will have to wait, namely big ticket items like spell checking and autoFill (which, btw, is much harder than one would think). I know people have been begging for those features for a long time, but we can’t hold the world waiting for them. It’s better to release without them then never release.

An old friend Wevah pointed me yesterday to a new site devoted to information, promotion and discussion of my own favorite browser to come out of the mozilla project – CaminoBrowser.org.

Nice, clean and to the point. While including all the standard fair for a website from these days – from developer blog to downloads its not particularly boring. Even gets “personal” with me from the start.

You appear to be running a recent nightly build of Camino. Isn’t life on the bleeding edge great?! Please report any bugs you find while you browse.

I still can’t help thinking that what the project really needs is a release based off of the ages of amazing nightlies they’ve been putting out and not off the older more stable code, but I do see showing any outword signs of live in the project being a good thing. Keep it up folks!

Lets take a page from Sesame Street and try and point out which one of these is not like the other (AP top headlines as seen on my custom MyYahoo! news page a minute ago):

• Ga. Courthouse Reopens Amid Tight Security – one hour ago


• Thousands March Against Syria in Beirut – 20 minutes ago


• Michael Jackson Arrives on Time for Trial – 4 minutes ago


• China Law Authorizes Force Against Taiwan – 23 minutes ago


• Former NAACP Leader to Run for Senate – 8 minutes ago


• China Testing AIDS Vaccine on Humans – 2 hours ago

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There are a fair amount of things I’ve seen happen this week that I thought I should post about, but don’t really have much to add above what I’ve read elsewhere.

First we have the rise of Ajax – no, not the cleaning product – the clever new name for a clever old technology. Jesse James Garret explains more about the combination of Asyncronous JavaScript and XML. SvN adds a little caution on the discussion, and just to round out the links to the old guard here’s what Jeff Veen has to say on Ajax

But wait, there more links to old familiar names. Jason Kottke, who I think I mentioned for being under the gun for posting info on leaked Jeopardy winners info has recently announced he quit his job and will be living off his blog for the next year. The twist – he’s gone “listener” supported instead of the blogad route. For the next few weeks he’s soliciting micropatrons as he’s calling them to donate to the fund to keep him going. Coverage from Wired, & the Village Voice. Best of luck man…

And one last tidbit for today, a new book by WaSP members David Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag The Zen of CSS Design is soon to be released and the digital press tours and reviews have started. Digital-Web has a review as well as interviews with both authors. Much more from David here.