Monday, December 6th, 2010
Category: JavaScript
Jupiter IT announced today the release of v3.0 of JavaScriptMVC, their OSS framework for enterprise-scale applications. The release encompasses a bevy of new features which touch on testing, Less and CoffeeScript support and enhanced documentation. The features/updates mentioned include: FuncUnit – Web Testing Framework Stand Alone Sub Projects – You can download only the tools Read the rest…
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
Category: JSON
At least in terms of cool Web stuff, JSON replaced XML long ago. But the story keeps trickling down. Semi-pivotal events appear to be recent moves by Twitter and Foursquare to remove XML support from their Web APIs, settling solely on JSON. In the wake, no less than XML crew member James Clark has taken Read the rest…
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Category: JavaScript
There are a number of resources on the Internet for reading up on JavaScript but very few viable options for actually exchanging ideas with extremely knowledgeable JavaScript developers, especially when it comes to just wanting to know about JavaScript itself and not a specific JS library. This was a pain point I (Rey) personally felt Read the rest…
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Cross document messaging is addressed in a recent HTML5 Web Messaging Working draft from the redoubtable W3C. The proposed messaging system is said to “allow documents to communicate with each other regardless of their source domain, in a way designed to not enable cross-site scripting attacks.” For more on the w3C draft, go to its Read the rest…
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Category: Browsers, IE, Microsoft
The IE9 team announced that they’ll be hosting an open Q&A session via Twitter where developers can ask questions to the Chakra engineers about the new JavaScript engine. In conjunction with the release of Platform Preview 7, we wanted to give the community the opportunity to ask questions of some of our IE and Chakra Read the rest…
Friday, November 12th, 2010
Category: Firefox, JavaScript
Mounir Lamouri looks at native browser-side form validation in Firefox4 – while re-iterating the need for re-validating on the server-side too. The objective of the browser-side form validation is to relieve JavaScript of the need to do a lot of basic form checking. Lanouri writes: ”All new input types introduced with HTML5 forms except search Read the rest…
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Category: Android, Firefox, Mobile
A new beta for mobile this way comes. Outstanding issues addressed include reduced memory usage, improved text rendering install size reduction on Android.
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, Library
In computer science, a fiber is a particularly lightweight thread of execution. Like threads, fibers share address space. However, fibers use co-operative multitasking while threads use pre-emptive multitasking. Threads often depend on the kernel's thread scheduler to preempt a busy thread and resume another thread; fibers yield themselves to run another fiber while executing. The Read the rest...
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Category: MooTools
After almost a year in development, the MooTools team announced the release of version 1.3 with major notable enhancements. Slick Selector Engine The biggest update is the inclusion of the new Slick standalone selector engine. The engine was developed by Thomas Aylott, Fabio Costa and Valerio Proietti with accuracy and portability in mind, allowing the Read the rest...
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
Category: Canvas, Examples
Francois Laberge has a fun demonstration of creating 3d looking effects via lighting and normal mapping on 2d photos. The demos progressively add features, from left to right lighting, to glow effects, to a multiple colored lighting extravaganza! Very nice work Francois!
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Category: IE
One of the unique new features of Internet Explorer 9 is the ability to 'pin' web sites to the Windows task bar: While this feature is cool, the way to do it is to use the META tag and drop in some fairly grotty markup into your page: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <!-- C-razy IE9 Read the rest...
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Category: Flash, WebGL
File this one in the crazy cool hacks category. Peter Nitsch has been experimenting with using Flash to access a user's webcam, and then feeding this data into WebGL: I tend to stay away from the HTML5 vs Flash "debate", principally because I think it's inane. Both platforms offer certain advantages over the other and Read the rest...
Category: Cappuccino, Showcase
The Cappuccino community loves to build rich and beautiful applications. The latest example of this is PicsEngine 4.0 by Michael Villar. The application features a clean UI and nice drag and drop support.
Category: Announcements, Framework, JavaScript, Library
Dave Balmer (formerly YUI, currently working with me on webOS) has created a fantastic cross platform mobile Web framework called Jo. What do I mean by cross platform? webOS, iOS, Android, Symbian, Safari, Chrome, and even Dashboard Widgets. It's philosophy is: If you want to jam an existing web page into an application framework, jo Read the rest...
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Category: 3D, CSS, HTML, Presentation
Over on my personal blog I talk about a 3D slide deck I've created that uses HTML5, CSS3, and a bit of SVG (video). The main idea behind this deck is to be able to 'zoom' into topics to as deep a level as necessary. Slides are nested, like an outline. For example, I gave Read the rest...
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
Here's a live blog from jQuery creator John Resig's talk at FOWA, where he's giving us an update on the new toys from the jQuery team. Data Link jQuery already supports a data API: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: $("div").data("test", 5); $("div").data("test")===5; $("div").removeData(); This is better than attaching data directly to data nodes for various Read the rest...
