A Japanese blogger ndruger made a single-page browser action game only using the latest CSS. You need to catch 101 cows by clicking.

Only the latest versions of Chrome/Safari can run this game. Firefox/IE are not supported.

Tags: Technology by Akky Akimoto
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Before smartphone, there were feature phone applications. Java MIDP is one of the application environment used on Softbank/Wilcom/KDDI au in Japan, and also on Motorola feature phone, etc. Android is known to use Java-derived environment. Google made different virtual machine Dalvik with avoiding using Sun's(and now Oracle's) Java, but Java/CLDC profile MIDP is authentic standard which you could develop cellphon applications.

Because of its long history, there are tons of MIDP applications exist on those cellphone. MIDP is very limited in comparison with Java for regular PCs, but it was well chosen for the limited cellphone environment.

Helped both by hardware and software improvement, a Japanese programmer Yukoba, who says himself as "Virtual machines on JavaScript and ActionScript otaku", released this "Java MIDP implementation on HTML5 and Flash" at Firefox Developers Conference 2010 in November, where jQuery developer John Resig attended.

His compiler generates JavaScript from MIDP Java class files, so the applications written for feature phone can be run on HTML5 browsers - Firefox. He also developed a compiler to ActionScript, to run it on Internet Explorer 8.

He also launched a showcase-site where you may play about 20 games and utilities made on Java MIDP.

He seems to be working on improvement of the emulator now. As I said above, there are a lot of MIDP application resources in Japan so it is good to run them on the modern web browsers.

Tags: Japan, Technology by Akky Akimoto
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Greasemonkey is a popular Firefox AddOn which enables users to insert customized Javascripts on top of websites, to extend website functionality.

Greasemetal is a Greasemonkey-like user Javascript inserter extension for Google Chrome. It is only a week after Google Chrome release, and done without having extension capability provided.

By this Greasemetal, you may add any supplemental Javascript to any website, with one of the fastest browser Javascript execution environment Google Chrome. User Javascripts are mostly compatible with Greasemonkey so that you already have bunch of usable scripts on userscripts.org.

The author, Kazuho OKU is known by making several interesting services around browser and its extension, user-generated menu translator system Japanize and Mylingual, traffic gathering analysis Pathtraq.

[disclaimer] Akky AKIMOTO is working part time for Cybozu Labs as an in-house blogger

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Tags: Japan, New Service by Akky Akimoto
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Celebration of new Firefox 3 launch was held at a hotel in Shinagawa, Tokyo, with over 300 people, Mozilla Japan staff, developers, translators, web designers, engineers, bloggers and others.

Contributors, Mozilla's new CEO John Lilly, Mozilla Japan chairperson Satoko Takita

Firefox Ice Trophy

Foxkeh!!, Japan made mascot to appeal Japanese internet users

The next Firefox 3.1 (planned late 2008) code name was recently named "Shiretoko" after Japan's national park in Hokkaido.

Tags: Event Report, Japan by Akky Akimoto
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Following Fenrir's announcement of internationalizing their Sleipnir browser just a few days ago, now Japan-based Lunascape announced today they opened an office in the USA to promote their web browser of the same name more efficiently overseas.

Lunascape, Inc. with a capital stock of 300,000 USD will be located in Silicon Valley. Founder and CEO Hidekazu Kondo will lead the subsidiary. He will continue to direct operations in Japan.

The Lunascape browser is available in English (version 4.7).

Tags: Japan by Serkan Toto
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