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: < View plain text > HTML <!– 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: < View plain text > javascript $("div").data("test", 5); $("div").data("test")===5; $("div").removeData(); This is better than attaching data directly to data nodes for Read the rest…
Category: Games, JavaScript
The JS1K conference wrapped up recently. One of the winners that jumped out at me recently was an implementation of Wolfenstein 3D…. in 1K of JavaScript: The author mentions some of the features: WOLF1K features a 32×32 map ( a 1024 cells grid ) with textured walls colored by orientation ( North, South, East, West Read the rest…
Monday, October 4th, 2010
Category: JavaScript
James Burke has rapidly of late sequenced through a series of releases of RequireJS file and module loader for JavaScript – reaching Release 0.14.2 (mostly bug fixes) this week. The software recently gained preliminary support for anonymous modules. Looking forward, Burke has posted a design sketch and code on GitHub (“rough at the moment, mostly Read the rest…
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