Ejacs: Why you would want to a JS runtime in Emacs Lisp 1 day ago
I had to hold this back until Friday, because you will need some time to read Steve Yegge talking about his new project Ejacs : Ejacs is an Ecma-262 compliant JavaScript interpreter written en .......
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Memberkit: Another Shot at VB for the Web 1 day ago
Two years ago we covered JotForm , a Ajax-based web form builder. The folks behind it have been busy in the intervening time and have now released a more general tool: Memberkit. Three years in d .......
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Digg Attack: A Canvas Game 1 day ago
Fun news for a Friday. From Jacob Seidelin -the dude behind JavaScript Super Mario Brothers -comes Digg Attack , an original JavaScript game using <g;canvas> for visuals (and Flash for music). .......
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iPhone for JavaScript Developers 1 day ago
John has done a really good job at wrapping up information on the various options for JavaScript developers on the iPhone platform . He discusses the various approaches: *JiggyApp : JiggyApp .......
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FlickrBrot: Happy Birthday Mandelbrot 1 day ago
A little Friday fun here from Jacob Seidelin. He has added FlickrBrot to his other fun fractal examples of the past. FlickrBrot commemorates the birthday of Mandelbrot himself: Today is t .......
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CDNs Gaining Broader Use with JavaScript Libraries 2 days ago
YUI and Google Most everyone knows that Google has really stepped up to the plate by helping many JavaScript library projects host their builds on the Google AJAX Libraries API . Apart from prov .......
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Liquid Canvas: Draw inside canvas with a DSL 2 days ago
PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: * * $(window).load(function() { * $("#example").liquidCanvas( * "[shadow border gradient] => roundedRect{radius:50}") * & .......
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Creating Custom Protocol Handlers With HTML 5 and Firefox 2 days ago
Via Myk Melez comes word that Firefox 3 supports HTML 5 web protocol handlers, which I had not realized before. These are really nifty: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: * window.navigator.registerProto .......
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This Week in HTML 5: Video tag changes 2 days ago
Mark Pilgrim is back telling us what is new in the world of HTML 5 and focuses on changes with the video tag and API : The big news this week is a major revamping of how browsers should process .......
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Microsoft LiveFX: Apps that look like a browser 2 days ago
Regardless of whether you?re in the Google camp or in the Microsoft camp, I think it?s a fair statement to say that these differences of viewpoint accurately reflect each company?s core strength a .......
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Live Blogging the Yahoo BrowserPlus Release Party 3 days ago
Austin Chau and I are here on the Yahoo campus for the Yahoo BrowserPlus release party. I'm going to blog the event as it happens here (Disclosure: I work for Google with the Open Web Advocacy an .......
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Detect Ajax Framework with WTFramework 4 days ago
Because viewing the source is too bothersome, we now have WTFramework (short for "What The Framework", obviously), a bookmarklet that will detect and display the Ajax / JavaScript frameworks used i .......
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Fixing the Web, Part I 4 days ago
Over on my personal blog I've started a new semi-regular series called Fixing the Web. From Part I of the series : We've made major progress on the web since 2005 and the rise of Ajax. JavaScrip .......
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Using HTML 5 postMessage 4 days ago
One of the cool new features in HTML 5 is Cross Document Messaging . What makes this feature really nice is that all the next-generation browsers support it: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Opera .......
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Reglib and jQuery Demo 4 days ago
We posted on reglib , the new declarative event based library by Greg Reimer. I was a little confused at first, but Greg has posted a follow up which includes a demonstration comparing reglib to .......
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JS-909: Drum Machine, No Flash 4 days ago
Cameron Adams has another fun Javascript experiment in JS-909 , a drum machine he built from scratch. It plays sound without Flash, along with a check that your browser is capable of playing s .......
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Using UIWebView (WebKit) in your iPhone App 8 days ago
Dr Nic has shared his experiences using WebKit to implement part of your iPhone app (in his case SurfView ): NEGATIVES *- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView is slow. "You?re run .......
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New SVG Editor? written in Flash 8 days ago
There is something ironic about an SVG editor written in Flash, but this preview by Tiago Cardoso, written using the inEvo SVG engine is fun to check out. It uses SVG natively and has some cool fe .......
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Guid0: JavaScript GUIDs 8 days ago
Our own Michael Mahemoff is at it again, creating a simple little GUID generator called Guid0 : Guid0 is a GUID library for Javascript. Okay, it doesn't yet do official, bona fide, 128-bit, GUI .......
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Undo, redo, and much more with Cappuccino 8 days ago
Francisco Tolmasky of 280 North has written a very nice piece on adding Undo and Redo to your Web application with Cappuccino . He creates a very cool sample application, FloorPlan , that s .......
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