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Ejacs: Why you would want to a JS runtime in Emacs Lisp

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 entirely ....... read more
1 day ago

Memberkit: Another Shot at VB for the Web

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 deve ....... read more
1 day ago

Digg Attack: A Canvas Game

Fun news for a Friday. From Jacob Seidelinthe dude behind JavaScript Super Mario Brotherscomes Digg Attack, an original JavaScript game using <g;canvas> for visuals (and Flash for music).
As an ....... read more
1 day ago

iPhone for JavaScript Developers

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 provides ....... read more
1 day ago

CDNs Gaining Broader Use with JavaScript Libraries

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 providing a ....... read more
2 days ago

Liquid Canvas: Draw inside canvas with a DSL

PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:

$(window).load(function() {
$("#example").liquidCanvas(
"[shadow border gradient] => roundedRect{radius:50}")
}) ....... read more
2 days ago

Creating Custom Protocol Handlers With HTML 5 and Firefox

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.registerProtocolHandl ....... read more
2 days ago

This Week in HTML 5: Video tag changes

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 mult ....... read more
2 days ago

Microsoft LiveFX: Apps that look like a browser

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 and ....... read more
2 days ago

FlickrBrot: Happy Birthday Mandelbrot

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 the birthda ....... read more
1 day ago

Detect Ajax Framework with WTFramework

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 in ....... read more
4 days ago

Fixing the Web, Part I

Over on my personal blog Ive started a new semi-regular series called Fixing the Web. From Part I of the series: Weve made major progress on the web since 2005 and the rise of Ajax. JavaScript toolk ....... read more
4 days ago

Using HTML 5 postMessage

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 9, an ....... read more
4 days ago

Reglib and jQuery Demo

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 jQuery ....... read more
4 days ago

JS-909: Drum Machine, No Flash

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 sound thi ....... read more
4 days ago

Live Blogging the Yahoo BrowserPlus Release Party

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 and Gea ....... read more
3 days ago

yboss - a wrapper for Yahoo?s BOSS API

BOSS - Build Your Own Search Service (the your is silent for reasons I cannot tell you as it would endanger the lives of our agents in the field) is a Yahoo! API to access their search index and get t ....... read more
11 days ago

Ext JS 3.0 Roadmap and Developer Tool

Alex Moore wrote in to highlight a couple of developments in the Ext JS community. First, the Ext JS roadmap has been updated with goals for the 2009-targetted 3.0 release:
# All new lightweight, h ....... read more
12 days ago

Redshift: What Ruby and a nice API can do in the browser

Red writes like Ruby and runs like JavaScript
That is the tagline for Red, and they mean it:
The all-new Red is a Ruby-to-JavaScript transliterator backed by a custom ruby.js library designed t ....... read more
12 days ago

Video and audio tags and cross origin access

Thanks to Chris Double I saw the email thread on cross origin access to media files via the video and audio HTML 5 tags. Jonas Sicking does a great job at explaining the issue, and why we need to rest ....... read more
12 days ago

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