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
Category: CSS, Showcase
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: < View plain text > css p { background-image: Read the rest…
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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…
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Category: Mozilla
Sometimes you need to compromise, but at others you need to lead and take a stance. Our politicians do far too much via polls, and I often find myself wishing for more leadership. I could start talking about Obama and the healthcare issue in the US….. but this is a technical blog so I won’t Read the rest…
Category: Fun
This is a Friday post that happens to show up on Monday ;) 2010 will have a lot of Web based OS products, including the much anticipated Chrome OS. Why wait for that when you can use Windows 3.11: Browser Edition? Or, check out webOS on mobile, Jollicloud on Netbook, and many others.
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Category: Showcase, Video
At Google I/O the team showed a demo of YouTube running video right in the browser, instead of in the rectangle of Flash. Now, that URL takes you to the beta, which you can opt-in too. I am torn on what to write on this showcase though…. so, especially since it is Friday, here are Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Library
John-David Dalton has released Fusebox, a library that allows you to sandbox natives: Extending JavaScript natives gives you the power to customize the language to fit your needs. You can add convenience methods like “hello world”.capitalize() or implement missing functionality like [1,2,3].indexOf(2) in JScript. The problem is that frameworks / libraries / third-party scripts may Read the rest…
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Category: HTML, JavaScript
There have been a few HTML builder APIs out there, but Ed Spencer (new lead of Ext JS) has put together something that looks and feels similar to Haml from the Ruby side. Jaml lets you write HTML like this: < View plain text > javascript div( h1("Some title"), p("Some exciting paragraph text"), Read the rest…
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Category: Debugging, Firefox
Nice work Firebug team for announcing Firebug 1.5, a great release that fixes many bugs and adds great features: Mike Radcliffe’s Inspector. A key feature, now solid as a rock, Jan ‘Honza’ Odvarko’s expanded and refined Net panel, with accurate timings, Steve Roussey’s reworking of HTML editing and entity support, Kevin Decker’s CSS and Style Read the rest…
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Category: JavaScript
We have a new bible. ECMAScript Edition 5 was voted (despite annoying folk like IBM who seem to only get in the way) in. So, when do we get to play? Over on the Qt blog, Kent has posted on the progress that has been made, and what there is to go, for this to Read the rest…
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Category: CSS, JavaScript, Library, Testing
Geuis Teses has released an enjoyable library called Helium that has the goal of testing your stylesheets for unused style. You inject helium into your site (e.g. put it in an included footer) and then when you hit the first page you will have a popup asking for the pages you want to test. Helium Read the rest…
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Category: CSS, JavaScript, Performance, PHP
I am right now working on a high-traffic project that will run in a sandbox that doesn’t allow me to pull third party JavaScript or use canvas/Flash. Yet I need to generate bar charts from a set of data. The solution to me was to create the charts from HTML using CSS. There have been Read the rest…
Category: Sencha, Showcase
David Davis of Ext doesn’t just have a cool name. He does cool stuff :) His latest post explains a showcase of melding HTML5 video and canvas support as he creates a live video tooltip. The example uses Ext JS web desktop and the code created delivers a special Panel that is able to deliver Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, jQuery, Library
The incredibly popular jQuery library has released jQuery 1.4 on a new website that will celebrate 14 days of jQuery. There are a lot of new features, and as usual performance gains are showcased. Easy Setter Functions: For a while now, you’ve been able to pass a function into .attr() and the return value of Read the rest…
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