Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Aaron Conran has published a new preview of Ext JS Designer which includes the new features: Duplicating Components Transforming Components Undo/Redo Configuration Searching Auto Updating Screenshots It is a great time for new tools popping out with Atlas coming along nicely too…. and a couple more being hacked on. Open Web Tools FTW! :)
Category: CSS, Performance
Our favorite ex-Yahoo at-Google web performance fast-driving all-around guru Steve Souders took a look at @font-face performance recently: There have been a number of great posts about @font-face performance issues: * Paul Irish: Fighting the @font-face FOUT * Stoyan Stefanov: Gzip your @font-face files * Zoltan Hawryluk (again): More @font-face fun This blog post summarizes Read the rest…
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Over on my blog I report a new release of SVG Web from the SVG Web team: Yowsers! It’s another release of SVG Web, this time code named Beholder: According to the classic D&D Monster Manual, the Beholder is an “aggressive and avaricious spherical monster that is most frequently found underground.” In other words, you Read the rest…
Category: Firefox
Paul Rouget shows off some cool new demos that are baking on the trunk of Firefox currently. First are some nifty new events that get fired if your computer has an accelerometer: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: window.addEventListener("MozOrientation", function(e) { /* 3 values: e.x, e.y, e.y */ }, true) It works with MacBooks and on Windows and Read the rest...
PPK has cried "There is no WebKit on mobile!" as he posts new compatibility tables that test WebKit across desktop and mobile: I compare 19 WebKits in order to prove that there is no “WebKit on Mobile” and to figure out which one is the best. My hope is that eventually I’m going to gain Read the rest...
Monday, October 12th, 2009
It's still early work but James Urquhart has gotten HTML rendering inside the Canvas tag. In his demo, he renders the following HTML into the Canvas element: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p class="woo" id="render" style="display:none;"> Rendering <b>HTML</b>... </p> Read the rest...
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Category: HTML
This is really awesome; I've long thought that applying usability studies to APIs like we do for user-interfaces can yield real results and make development easier. The HTML5 spec recently had something called microdata added to it. The idea behind microdata is to allow HTML to be annotated with machine-readable data. A natural question is Read the rest...
The week is almost over, and that means it's Fun Friday! Ajax and HTML5 aren't just for serious business apps ("business in the front, party in the back"): http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyjohngreen/ / CC BY 2.0 This week we have JS Wars from Jonas Wagner: There are a couple of unique things about this game that makes it Read the rest...
Category: Games
Scott Schiller, favourite DHTML hax0r, pointed us to Vanthia "a browser based Massive Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game in development." The game appears to use Mootools for the underlying library, the UI is quite well done and the map uses an isometric, pixel-based style. Check out the forum.
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Hot off the presses comes a new This Week in HTML5 episode. In this episode Mark Pilgrim notes: Since I started publishing these weekly summaries over a year ago, I've watched the HTML5 specification grow up...Slowly, steadily, and sometimes painstakingly, the HTML5 specification has matured to the point where the hottest topic last week was Read the rest...
Martin Kool and Sjoerd Visscher have gotten many of the old Sierra Online games running on the Canvas tag, including many of the Kings Quest series, Space Quest series, and Leisure Suit Larry. Martin Kool describes some of the long process it took to get these into the shape they are: In 2003, I created Read the rest...
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Atul Varma keeps on producing more amazing tools for the Web than I have had hot dinners. I got to work with him on the original memory tool experiment and he has just improved it a lot. As well as the nice new look, there is a new API with nice methods such as getObjectTable Read the rest...
Category: Books
Jesus Garcia kindly gave us excerpts from his book Ext JS in Action. Now he is back with a new excerpt from a chapter on the Table Layout (download PDF): The table layout gives you complete control over how you want to visually organize your components. Many of us are used to building HTML tables Read the rest...
Category: HTML, SVG
, Tutorial
, View Source
I recently ran across a site that made my jaw drop when I realized it's completely made with HTML5, CSS, and SVG. It's the site for the GNU Emacs for Mac OS X release: Who ever knew GNU Emacs could look so sexy? When I think of GNU Emacs I generally imagine Richard Stallman's beard Read the rest...
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Category: CSS
Many browsers have been experimenting with new custom CSS properties lately. Keeping track (and learning how to use them) can be a bit of a challenge. Via WidgetPad comes a nifty CSS 3 Generator that helps you understand the new CSS 3 features in Webkit with an interactive tool that will build up and show Read the rest...
Category: Typography
Zoltan Hawryluk has written a detailed in-depth post on @font-face. Not only does he go into detail on using fonts via CSS: PLAIN TEXT CSS: @font-face { font-family: 'Droid Sans'; src: url('/shared/fonts/DroidSans/DroidSans.eot'); src: local('Droid Sans'), local('Droid 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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