Friday, April 30th, 2010
Category: Mobile
Twitter released an official Android application today that looks clean and to the point. A mobile Web version of a Twitter client, Tweet Me was released on webOS, and I think it raises the bar. It is beautiful and a pleasure to use: This is a segue into some posts that I have penned recently Read the rest…
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
Thomas Fuchs has a detailed post on building a Flash-y game with scripty2 where he walks through a memory game. Everything is shown, from game logic all the way to the smooth animations and easings: < View plain text > javascript // animate cards to go to new positions cards.inGroupsOf(4).each(function(group, x) { group.each( function(card, Read the rest…
Nearly 4 years ago, Ben Joffe created a fun Tetris-like game called Torus that takes the classic and makes it cylindrical. He just updated the game now that browsers can power his canvas game sooo much better. Smooth falling motion Smooth left/right motion Row clear animation Slightly higher playing field Visual indication of death zone Read the rest…
Category: Microsoft, Standards
Dean Hachamovitch took an opportunity to talk about Microsoft’s point of view on HTML5 video. Namely, the view that they will only support H.264. Why do that post now? Get it out before Google I/O and VP8 gets released and opened? Follow Steve Jobs’ attack on Adobe (which talks about the openness of H.264?). Dean Read the rest…
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Category: jQuery
Corey Hart has a fun post on jQuery micro optimization tips by walking through the jQuery codebase to see what is running. Right away he notes that these are true micro optimizations, and to “use with caution and balance elegance with performance correctly.” Chances are you are a lucky chap if these are the biggest Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, MooTools
The first beta of MooTools 1.3 has become available. The biggest feature is their new CSS selector engine. They aren’t using Sizzle like some of the other boys, but instead have become Slick: Slick is our new, shiny, super fast, exhaustively tested, pure-javascript selector engine. There will probably be a dedicated Slick post in the Read the rest…
Heroku is known for its impressive Rails hosting, but on the heels of a post on how they decide their roadmap we see announced support for node.js in private beta. This is sure to be the first of many chaps putting their hat in the ring. With Ryan Dahl himself at Joyent, you would be Read the rest…
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Category: CSS
The following features are at-risk and may be dropped at the end of the CR period if there has not been enough interest from implementers: ‘box-decoration-break’, ‘box-shadow’. box-shadow is back in the W3C CSS3 spec. Not only is is back, but you can now get insets: Thanks to the CSS Ninja for the tip.
I remember when Dan Mills showed a first prototype of having the browser help you login. I have long wanted to login to the browser itself, and then have it handle my passwords etc. I use 1Password to do some of this, but I still have to click on buttons to do the login. The Read the rest…
Weston Ruter wants to talk to the search robots out there and tell them about the URL format for crawling Ajax apps. Google came out with a spec for doing this with hash bang URLs such as: http://shepherdinteractive.com/#!portfolio/interactive/. What if we could tell Google and others something like: < View plain text > HTML <meta Read the rest…
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Category: Browsers
Steve Souders was at the Mozilla Web caching summit that we posted on recently. At the event he lead the charge on the default size of the cache, and has written up a call to improve browser caching. He created a browser survey form to capture information on the size of peoples cache, and this Read the rest…
Category: Survey
What are the current Web Directions? John Allsopp is back, with results from his latest State of Web Development 2010 survey. There is a ton of content here, and the data is made available. For the full report you can grab the PDF. Fancy some crib notes? Here are some of the highlights from the Read the rest…
Category: Mobile
David Aurelio of the awesome Uxebu has been working on TouchScroll, a library that implements scrolling in a way that mimics the native scrolling of a device such as an iPhone, Android, or Pre. Other libraries such as jQtouch and the Mojo library itself (used in Ares) do this work too in their own worlds. Read the rest…
Monday, April 26th, 2010
Category: Examples, JavaScript
This is a guest post from the folks at Nextpoint. We’ve previously mentioned their pioneering use of Ajax in the legal industry and open sourcing of Growl4Rails. Here they bring us some details on their scrollable-document interface — make sure to make it to the end of the post for a link to the sample Read the rest…
Paul Bakaus of jQuery UI fame showed of something really exciting at JQuery Conf today. He shared a sneak peak of the Aves Engine, a killer game engine built for the modern Web: he Aves Engine is a software development kit to generate spectacular isometric browsergames without the need for third-party plugins like Microsoft Silverlight Read the rest…
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Category: JavaScript, Server
Alexander Fritze has been working on some very interesting developments. We have talked about his Stratified JavaScript library in the past, and he has brought his model to the server with with Oni Rocket. He tells us more: Earlier this year I teamed up with my ex-Joost colleague Tom Germeau to found Oni Labs (http://www.onilabs.com/), Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
