Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
eBooks have gone mainstream, and right now the open ePub format is getting a lot of attention, being the iPad’s book format of choice. Often overlooked in gadget-centric media is the fact that ePub is based on web standards, and therefore amenable to being rendered in the browser, sans plugins. Pure Javascript ePub readers are Read the rest…
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Category: Canvas, Fun
, Games
, JavaScript
It is quite interesting to see how technology moves in circles. With canvas being the new fun toy to play with for creating browser-based games we have to find solutions to fake a 3D environment to be really fast (sure there is Canvas 3D but it is overkill for most games). The trick is to Read the rest...
Category: Announcements, CSS
We have been long term fans of Román and the fantastic demos and samples that he puts together, usually involving CSS goodness. We messed up the other week though when we linked to his work on a scrolling coke can. I do these postings as a labor of love, and since Ajaxian isn't my day Read the rest...
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Mozilla Labs has released the magical 1.0 version of Weave and the doors are now open for developers. When I was a part of Mozilla Labs day to day, I always loved the vision and team behind Weave. I kept wanting the implementation to match the vision, but it is a tough problem and it Read the rest...
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Anthony Calzadilla has a fun Friday example for us. He has a tutorial on how he animated an AT AT using CSS. He goes over the different areas and how he uses animation and transforms. For example, the head of the beast: PLAIN TEXT CSS: @-webkit-keyframes rotate-head{ 0% {-webkit-transform:rotate(0deg) translate(0px,0px);} 40% {-webkit-transform:rotate(10deg) Read the rest...
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Category: JavaScript
Fan of Eiffel or the design by contract pattern that it espouses? Øyvind Kinsey is, and he just created jsContract an alpha library to give you some pre and post condition abilities. Here is an example: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function _internalMethod(a, b){ Contract.expectNumber(a); Contract.expectNumber(b); Contract.expectWhen(config.mode === "divide", b> Read the rest...
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Aaron Boodman created Greasemonkey back in the day. He also worked on Gears. And most recently he created Chrome Extensions. I have a funny feeling that folks were pinging him daily "hey, when ya gunna give me Greasemonkey on Chrome" and he just delivered: One thing that got lost in the commotion of the extensions Read the rest...
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Category: Announcements, Framework
A Googler and a Facebooker were in a pub discussing the complexities of building out a rich modern Web application. There are a ton of dependencies, and you need to be proficient in multiple languages and tools (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL/NoSQL, backend languages, build tools, etc). Well, they may not have been in a pub.... Read the rest...
Category: Announcements, SVG
SVG-Edit is a nifty open source editing web app that uses SVG and doesn't need a server-side: The SVG-Edit team recently announced SVG-Edit 2.4, code named Arbelos. New features include: - Raster Images - Group/Ungroup - Zoom - Layers - Curved Paths - UI Localization - Wireframe Mode - Change Background - Draggable Dialogs - Read the rest...
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Category: Editorial
The following post is a reprint from my personal blog. It is editorial in nature and even delves into random politics. I apologise. You can deal with it though :) Steve Jobs didn't hold back when talking about Google and Adobe. That is great. Life is so much more fun when people speak their mind. Read the rest...
Category: Browsers
What can you do if you want to enable a fullscreen experience on the Web? You can't. Or, use Flash. Some claim that you shouldn't offer this ability as it is a security liability. Someone can put a fullscreen view that tricks the user into giving it information. However, as much as I think user Read the rest...
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Category: Examples, Geo
, Google
, JavaScript
, Mapping
, Yahoo!
As part of an upcoming article on geo location I am putting together a few Geo Toys for myself and here is the first one. Addmap.js is a JavaScript that analyses an elements text content, finds geographical locations and links them to Google Maps. It also adds a map preview and a list of the Read the rest...
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Category: Browsers, Canvas
, Performance
The Freeciv.net crew has benchmarked a path in their canvas game. It is one data point, and tests more than just Canvas itself because a lot of code is running in the game. Thus, it ends up testing the union of a particular JavaScript path and the rendering of the canvas. Here are the results: Read the rest...
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Román Cortés is having a lot of fun with CSS tricks these days. He just built an example rolling CSS coke can that uses background-attachment, background-position, and a few other tricks to get the effect. No fancy CSS3 needed here! The key pieces used: PLAIN TEXT CSS: p { background-image: Read the rest...
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
I love programmers like Alex Miltsev. He won the Jetpack 0.5 content by prototyping access to the GPU from JavaScript! Alex’s work is an alpha-prototype that shows the feasibility of the project and it requires a custom build of Firefox to use — it’s not easy to demo. However, the code sample below shows how Read the rest...
Category: Appcelerator, Apple
Appcelerator has published an interesting study on the Apple Tablet. You know, the iPhone OS based one that we will Steve will show us on Wednesday. The study asks some interesting questions revolving around the development side of the tablet. Are developers going to develop for it? What are they looking for? What are they 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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