Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Category: Sound
The HTML5 specification introduces the and media elements, and with them the opportunity to dramatically change the way we integrate media on the web. The current HTML5 media API provides ways to play and get limited information about audio and video, but gives no way to programatically access or create such media. We present a Read the rest...
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, Ruby
modulr is a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScript Ruby? what does that have anything to do with it? Ah, its from one of those Prototype guys isn't it.... Yup, Tobie is at it again, this time with modulr: modulr accepts a singular file as input (the program) on which is does static Read the rest...
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Category: jQuery, Library
, YUI
I just came across this wonderful Gist on gitHub: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var $; YUI().use('*', function(Y){ $ = Y.get; for(var p in Y) { $[p] = Y[p]; } }); // test $('body').append("boo!"); In case you want to use YUI3 but really really like jQuery syntax :) Read the rest...
Category: Browsers, Performance
Bass Schouten is a cool name, and the Mozillan has presented Direct2D hardware acceleration. You have to grab Firefox nightly, do the about:config / gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled game, but then you get to see it in action. IE9 showed off how they will support hardware rendering, and I am sure we will see more at MIX, but Read the rest...
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Category: Component
Works even in IE6 Love that quote from the color picker over at RaphaelJS land. This plugin by Dmitry Baranovskiy gives you an easy color picker in short order: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var icon = Raphael("picker", 23, 23).colorPickerIcon(11, 11, 10); icon.attr({cursor: "pointer"}).node.onclick = function () { document.getElementById("benefits").style.visibility = "visible"; Read the rest...
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Category: Canvas
Andrew Hoyer shows his canvas Fu with Cloth, a great experiment using nice physics. What makes this simulation special is the speed at which everything is computed. Javascript (the language this is written in) is not exactly the most efficient language for this type of computation. This being said, much time was spent squeezing out Read the rest...
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Marcus Westin has created a new templating language called fin. It is an interesting beast, and he gave us a run down: Since this past November I've been working on a realtime templating system I call "fin". I'd love to get some eyes on it, and hope that you'll find it exciting. There is no Read the rest...
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Category: Performance
Would we all like Steve to sit down with us on our project and do a performance case study? Well, we may not get that, but we are getting to at least sit in on others. Steve has kicked off his long awaited series that runs performance case studies on third party content. I have Read the rest...
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, Mozilla
, Performance
David Anderson: "TraceMonkey has rocket boosters, so it runs really fast when the boosters are on, but the boosters can’t always be turned on." Opera's new JIT compiler Carakan is doing well as we just posted. What is Mozilla doing with TraceMonkey? A lot. Mozilla JägerMonkey adds method based JIT (of V8 and Nitro fame) Read the rest...
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Category: Browsers
The Opera team has released 10.50 for Mac and along with it some impressive performance numbers: Stabilization Improvements: You will find that this build is much more stable than the pre-alpha build. More polished user interface: The whole UI is more polished now. We're still not done yet, and expect more polishes and improvements in Read the rest...
Bastian Allgeier has developed a beautiful, native looking web application called ZooTool. Zootool is a visual bookmark tool for images, videos, documents and links. It is completely based on Mootools, even though it looks more like a Cappuccino app! Play with it. Enjoy it.
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Category: Accessibility, JavaScript
, Library
EnhanceJS is a new library from the Filament Group, who are serious about progressive enhancement and accessibility. What is EnhanceJS? EnhanceJS is a new JavaScript framework (a single 2.5kb JavaScript file once minified/gzipped) that that automates a series of browser tests to ensure that advanced CSS and JavaScript features will render properly before they’re loaded Read the rest...
Category: Mobile
Reposted from my personal blog where I tinker with the Web. I tweet about this stuff here. As you move to a new platform, it is interesting to watch your brain morph over time. I remember switching from Windows to Mac. At first the fonts looked blurry and weird. The mouse pointer didn't weight right. Read the rest...
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Category: CSS
In my never ending quest to find weird and wonderful ways to abuse CSS and all its little intricacies, I have come up with a pretty good way of using CSS to create custom radio and checkbox inputs without JavaScript, that are accessible, keyboard controlled, don’t use any hacks and degrade nicely in non supporting Read the rest...
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Category: Debugging, JavaScript
, Utility
Piotr Zalewa has created a really great playground, jsFiddle, for testing sample code and playing with the Web. With an area for the holy trinity of the Web (HTML, CSS, JS) and an output region, you can get right to hacking. It goes beyond this though. You can also add resources, an Ajax echo backend, Read the rest...
Category: Apple, Editorial
, Flash
, iPhone
Most of the thinking on iPad's exclusion of Flash has been focused on battery life, performance, stability, or control of the application market, but here's a Flash developer who's thinking differently. Morgan Adams argues it's all about the mouseover, and he raises a point that is just as relevant to rich Javascript apps. Many (if 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...
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