• IE9 Canvas Support Leaked by AMD?

    Updated: 2010-03-19 16:23:38
    I was on a panel at OSBC with Dave Mcallister of Adobe and Brian Goldfarb of Microsoft. I wanted to talk to Brian about canvas in IE9 but held off until later where I even offered the community up to write the IE code ;) Someone off the record told me last week “it is coming… [...]

  • Letter to Google Chrome

    Updated: 2010-03-19 14:41:00
    A letter to Google Chrome - I am moving from Chrome to the good old Firefox browser.

  • Jetpack SDK: The reboot of the extensions

    Updated: 2010-03-19 11:16:03
    The Jetpack project over at Mozilla Labs has been rethinking what it is to extend the browser (as has Chrome Extensions). They both move us to using Web technologies and skills rather than having to digg into XUL or C++. The project has gone through a reboot, and shed the original experiment as Jetpack Prototype. We [...]

  • ‘You Don’t Search the Internet with Google’

    Updated: 2010-03-19 10:18:00
    When you search Google, you aren't searching the World Wide Web or Internet as they call it.

  • Mozilla Labs releases alpha version of contacts in the browser

    Updated: 2010-03-19 00:40:29
    Michael Hanson and a team at Mozilla Labs have been doing some really interesting work with Identity in the browser (and taking ownership back from services). They just released an alpha add-on for Firefox that begins to integrate contacts from services (right now: “Gmail, Twitter, and, on MacOS-based machines, the local Address Book” but growing). Imagine getting [...]

  • Talking about Douglas Crockford’s good parts

    Updated: 2010-03-18 18:50:49
    It was St. Patricks Day last night, and I have a funny feeling that some green beer and Guiness lead to Brian LeRoux and Rob Ellis creating Crockford Facts. It isn’t Friday yet…. well it is in Australia right? Silliness. Oh, and John Resig has some competition for Doug too. We demand a dance off?

  • A typeface created in CSS

    Updated: 2010-03-17 13:17:21
    David Desandro has developed a newtypeface family named Curtis and done so in an interesting way.... using CSS: Each character is wrapped in a <span> and then depending on the complexity of that character, more empty <span> elements are added to the markup to render each shape. Here's the markup for R: PLAIN TEXT HTML:   <span class="css_char r">     [...]

  • Hot Apps: Using $1M to reward 440 mobile Web developers

    Updated: 2010-03-17 11:22:03
    Disclaimer: Ben and I work for Palm and created this program. I wanted to make sure that you were aware of it over here, since Web developers have a great chance of getting some $ :) At Palm we wanted to reward the mobile Web developers who build great applications that our users can enjoy. We [...]

  • Sputnik gets more tests; How compliant are the browsers?

    Updated: 2010-03-16 11:34:00
    The Chromium folk have posted about JavaScript conformance as they release a test runner for Sputnik, that allows you to easily run the complete test suite from within your browser: Sputnik touches all aspects of the JavaScript language defined in the 3rd edition of the ECMA-262 spec. In many ways it can be seen as a [...]

  • A Better Mobile Web; What else?

    Updated: 2010-03-15 15:41:13
    Cedric Dugas feels so passionate about fixed positioning in WebKit that he created A Better Mobile Web to talk about it: The Problem It is impossible to have an element fixed in CSS on the page in the mobile Webkit browser. When you are surfing the web on your phone, webkit opens the page completely and acts [...]

  • Ambilight Sample; video and canvas

    Updated: 2010-03-12 11:30:20
    Sergey Chikuyonok gets his Philips Ambilight foo on as he created a HTML5 video + canvas sample that mimics the TV effect. As the video runs, a snapshot is sent over to JavaScript land where colors are worked out: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   function getMidColors(side) {         var w = buffer.width,                 [...]

  • YQL Geo library – all your geo needs in pure JavaScript

    Updated: 2010-03-11 15:04:15
    I just finished doing some talks on geo hacking (slides are available here) and how to use some of the Geo technologies Yahoo and Google provide as part of a University gig in Atlanta. As a lot of the students liked the idea of APIs like GeoPlanet and Placemaker but had a hard time getting [...]

  • SVG Wow!

    Updated: 2010-03-11 10:35:01
    Erik Dahlström and Vincent Hardy have put together a cool website, called SVG Wow!, that showcases SVG doing things you didn't expect SVG can do: There are alot of unique demos on there. One of my favorites uses SVG, HTML5 Audio, Web Fonts, and YUI to play music accompanied by flying animated lyrics (Chrome and Safari only): There [...]

  • Harmony: Canvas Drawing Tool

    Updated: 2010-03-10 09:50:44
    Harmony is a new drawing tool, a HTML5/Canvas experiment with great potential. It provides some unique brush styles, and can produce some great-looking charcoal pencil style sketches, among other things. Better to try it out than explain it in words. Creator Mr. Doob (Richard Cabello) explains how he used Canvas to make it darker the [...]

  • Spectrum Visualization with the HTML5 Audio Data API

    Updated: 2010-03-09 11:20:07
    The HTML5 specification introduces the and media elements, and with them the opportunity to dramatically change the way we integrate media on the web. The current HTML5 media API provides ways to play and get limited information about audio and video, but gives no way to programatically access or create such media. We [...]

  • modulr: a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScript

    Updated: 2010-03-08 11:28:40
    modulr is a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScript Ruby? what does that have anything to do with it? Ah, its from one of those Prototype guys isn't it.... Yup, Tobie is at it again, this time with modulr: modulr accepts a singular file as input (the program) on which is does static analysis to [...]

  • What you need to know about the webOS PDK

    Updated: 2010-02-27 20:48:26
    Skip to content Skip to main navigation Skip to first column Skip to second column webOShelp.net Get the latest : on Home News and Rumors webOS News and Rumors Palm News and Rumors Pure Speculation Forums Tutorials Resources Overview API Reference Mojo Services API UI Widget List CSS Style Reference webOS Glossary Frequently Asked Questions Palm Pre Specifications Other webOS resources About Us About This Site Contact Us Wanted : You Home Article Listing What you need to know about the webOS PDK What you need to know about the webOS PDK Saturday , 27 February 2010 Ken Young Palm has announced that they will be releasing a Plug-in Development Kit for webOS developers , allowing them to take advantage of new capabilities on webOS devices . 160 What does this mean for application developers : Lots Easy to port existing C C++ applications to webOS , including those that use OpenGL ES 1.1 or 2.0 Easy integration of C C++ components to enhance the capability of webOS applications built with Mojo This means hardware accelerated games and other applications that require more computing horsepower than Mojo can provide . 160 Check out the technologies behind the PDK after the . break The

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