Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Bitjuice: JavaScript Bitmap API
Category: JavaScript
, Library, UI
Our own Michael Mahemoff has been at it again, and this time with a real twist.
Michael has packaged Bitjuice, a Javascript API that lets you draw graphics by creating complex HTML tables that are styled. Yup, not Canvas, not SVG, but HTML tables!
You can take it for a spin with the interactive scratchpad.
2.5 rating from 24 votes
Queue the grumpy bastards with taunts of how “useless” this is…
It’s called “proof of concept,” guys.
I was about to be a grumpy bastard then! :)
Its good to have this kind of experimenting going on. Its a bit odd using tables for this kind of thing but I can see places where it could be handy. Good work.
Yes, I’d hate to, like, “do experiments” or anything. Before said people get in with performance comments, there’s still some performance optimisation required - remains to be seen how fast it can be pushed.
For me that’s a really old one.
Look at http://www.walterzorn.com/jsgraphics/jsgraphics_e.htm to see a more interesting library.
bitmap has no properties
runCode()bitmapDemo.js (line 26)
onclick()bitmapDemo.js (line 25)
[Break on this error] function runCode() { eval($(’code’).value+’;'); }
Nice one but seriously - who might ever use this?
Which concept does this prove?
That people have short memory. Table/div soup was used to “draw” things back in the mid-late 90’s. Although it can be fun to experiment with, this is not news worthy.