Friday, July 31st, 2009
It would be a pretty cool hack to implement a PostScript/PDF interpreter in JavaScript wouldn't it? That is exactly what has been done with WPS. The code takes PS and really groks it so: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: /n 10 def /w 25 def 0 0 n w mul dup .gbox 4 dict Read the rest...
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Category: Showcase
Remember the era of the sitemap? Matt Everson has rev'd it up again with SlickMap CSS a nice visualization that runs on top of a simple set of ul lists. To check out the magic, just peak in the CSS and see fun uses of new CSS: PLAIN TEXT CSS: Read the rest...
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Category: CSS, Showcase
, WebKit
The iPhone has had these wicked cool 3D transforms hardware accelerated for awhile. We haven't seem them in desktop Safari though, until now. Charles Ying shows us Snow Stack: Oh, was there some Microsoft plugin launched last week? We don't need no stinkin' plugin! Charles tells us more: Larger images load in after 2 seconds Read the rest...
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Category: Showcase
Michael Zoellner has developed an augmented reality twitter mashup that is very cool indeed. AR is great stuff, and the Web platform is a great way to mash it up. Hopefully Apple will take the petition seriously: The whole application is developed in Webkit (UIWebView / Safari Mobile). A native Cocoa wrapper delegates location, compass Read the rest...
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Dave Burke just gave an awesome demo at GDD Beijing. Fire up Firefox 3.5beta (for now) and head over here and watch the human blink detection in action! Here Dave tells us more about his awesome hack: Inspired by a demo by Paul Rouget, I've created an image processing demo that detects eye blinks in Read the rest...
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Category: Showcase, Video
, WebKit
Charles Ying has been playing with some new cool features that just made it to WebKit Nightly, specifically CSS effects with HTML5 video. With some cool CSS such as below, Charles gets the nice effect of reflection live on HTML5 video (which is playing a .mov that you select) PLAIN TEXT CSS: .reflector { Read the rest...
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Category: Cappuccino, Showcase
I am sitting in the JavaOne keynote watching the event in real-time through the new application, almost.at. It aggregates tweets, links, photos and videos all in one nice interface. You will notice that the UI has an iTunes-like feel with the bottom timeline, and it looks great. I am starting to wonder if you have Read the rest...
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
"darkimmortal" has created another really nice visualization of music that uses Canvas and SoundManager2 to do its work. Do yourself a favour, and hit play to see the funk The example uses two canvases, one to do the logic wave work, and then it is copied into the main canvas that you see ctxR.drawImage( ctxL.canvas, Read the rest...
Monday, May 18th, 2009
The Crap I missed it! crew took on the task of dealing with importing your iTunes XML file, and wanting to give you responsive feedback on the items as they come in. The usual tactic would be to suck in the entire file, and then process it. Michael Baldwin did more, and here he tells Read the rest...
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Category: Showcase
David Semeria has been working on LM, another Ajax framework, for a number of years and has just announced it. The first demo app is a highly customizable Twitter client, Twiggler, that runs in the browser. Unfortunately nothing is public on the framework so we can't see how it actually works. It looks kinda like Read the rest...
Friday, April 24th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, Showcase
, SVG
Brad Neuberg pointed me to a Blackberry Storm site that uses Raphael, jQuery, and SoundManager to offer an SVG / VML (for IE) experience. PLAIN TEXT HTML: <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.0/jquery-ui.min.js"></script> <script src="/js/soundmanager2-nodebug-jsmin.js"></script> <script src="/js/raphael-min.js"></script> <script src="/js/trig-min.js"></script>
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Ben loves to talk about old games such as Dark Castle. I personally love remembering old Sinclair ZX Spectrum games but also fondly remember Leisure Suit Larry. Wouldn't it be nice if you could play classic old games such as these easily online? Martin Kool thought so, and wanted to create an open source adventure Read the rest...
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
SitePen has created Stocker "which demonstrates some of the more advanced capabilities of Dojo, including the newly released DataChart, the DataGrid, Data Store, Comet, Persevere, and BorderContainer. SitePen is also offering a one-day workshop where you will learn how to create Stocker yourself, but I’m here to give you a sneak peak of what Stocker Read the rest...
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Category: Showcase
Just last week a few of us were discussing the riches that await discovery in the various computer science research paper archives and today Peter Bergström wrote in to tell us that he's finished work on his PaperCube research paper search engine (which we mentioned when it was incomplete some time ago). Bsaed on SproutCore, Read the rest...
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Category: Canvas, JavaScript
, Showcase
Jacob Seidelin is at it again, with another music visualization using canvas and more: A couple of weeks ago I played around with music visualization using JavaScript/canvas and SoundManager2. Well, I couldn't leave it at that and as I mentioned in the comments, I had an eye on the MilkDrop plugin for Winamp. The result Read the rest...
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Category: Showcase
Project Dragonfly is the latest experiment from the Autodesk Labs group. It enables to visually floor plan in both 2d and 3d space: A few of the folks who brought you Project Draw and Autodesk Seek, teamed with some fairly new members of the Autodesk family, have cooked up something new for the home project Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
How to change html form tags to ajax
How to change html form tags to...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
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