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Month: November, 2011

Review: Meanwhile for iOS, by Jason Shiga & Andrew Plotkin

(Part of a new series of reviews of interactive digital fiction)

Meanwhile is a branched-storyline comic written and illustrated by Jason Shiga, originally published as a printed book. Interactive game developer Andrew Plotkin designed and coded the iOS version, available on the iOS App Store [iTunes link]. While I’ve seen the print edition, my first experience [...]

Caveman: An HTML5 cache manifest validator

Over on his own blog, Ned Batchelder has written up his HTML5 appcache validator tool he whipped together while working on Ibis Reader:

The result is Caveman, a Python tool to validate HTML5 cache manifests. It scrapes the HTML page you specify, finding resources, then compares them to the cache manifest and reports problems.

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