The GXT Slider is beautiful and fun to use, it can even be passed to a SliderField and used as an input widget in forms (FormPanel), there is however one twist to its API that I think should be looked into in GXT3 and its the fact the you have very little control over the formatting of the tooltip message shown as you drag the slider's thumb back and forth.

Some months ago the First Public Working Draft of Web Notifications was published. The idea behind this specification is to let web applications integrate with the notification system of the operating system. Or with a third-party system (e.g. Growl on Mac OS X). As there has been some confusion in the past I should stress that this is solely an API for showing a message to the user that e.g. a new email or instant message has arrived. This is not push technology; it is not for streaming data over the network.

It's been fun building with the new Google Maps V3 API, I'll say RockClimbr is gathering momentum ascending quite well; my only wish was to get it ready for the DevFest follow-up competition.  Built  with PHP n' MySQL on windows and JQuery 1,4, I thinki it'll turn out to be valueable for it's cause.

With Google and Apple strongly supporting HTML5 as the solution for rich applications for the Internet, it’s become the buzzword of the month — particularly after Google I/O. Given its hot currency, though, it’s not surprising that the term is starting to become unhinged from reality.