ajaxian — Javascript author extraordinaire David Flanagan released Canto.js recently, a lightweight wrapper API for canvas, introduced here and documented at the top of the source code. Example: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: canto("canvas_id").moveTo(100,100).lineTo(200,200,100,200).closePath().stroke(); Notice three things: canto() returns an abstraction of the canvas - a "Canto" object. As with jQuery and similar libraries, there's method chaining; each...
sencha — We are pleased to announce the availability of Ext JS 3.3 beta 1 for immediate download. This release introduces great new components and over 160 enhancements and bug fixes. Download Ext JS 3.3 beta Introducing the PivotGrid The first component we’d like to introduce is the PivotGrid. PivotGrids are a...
ajaxian — Interest in Canvas, as well as mobile apps, has led to a renaissance of old-school 8-bit graphics. Joe Huckaby of Effect Games has been playing around with color cycling, leading to some stunning effects. Anyone remember Color cycling from the 90s? This was a technology often used in 8-bit video...
ajaxian — The Dojo project continues to pump out goodness announcing version 1.5 of the Dojo Toolkit with a number of new and exciting features. Dylan Schiemann The JavaScript world is evolving at an intense pace. We’re very pleased with this release of Dojo, which offers the stability needed for existing apps...
yuiblog — YUI contributor and former Yahoo Chad Auld emailed us to tell us about his latest project with his Brilaps group — a project that has brought YUI Theater to the TV screen via Boxee. In Chad’s words: Boxee is an up-and-coming cross platform application that aims to help bring web...
yuiblog — The Yahoo! Flex Force is currently looking to expand our team with a few talented frontend Engineers. As part of the Flex Force team, you will have the opportunity to work on multiple strategic projects of high profile and high visibility. These positions involve being an ambassador of best practices...
ajax.phpmagazine — jQuery Deconstructed is a great resource for jQuery and JavaScript developers that breaks the physical JavaScript into visual blocks that you can easily navigate. Each block opens to reveal its internal code, and Clickable hyperlinks allow you to follow program flow. A great resource for people using jQuery, and need...
sencha — We thought we'd see if you can really duplicate popular Flash ads in HTML5 and CSS3. Take a look at these popular Flash ads and compare them to our CSS3 recreations. It's a little uncanny.
blog.jquery — We’d like to open up submissions for talks for our conferences in London and Boston. The dates are currently being firmed up, but currently we’re eyeing these days: London: Sept 13-14; Boston: Oct 16-17. Please fill out the form if you’re interested in speaking at either of these events. We will be...
yuiblog — About the Author: Daniel Barreiro (screen name Satyam) has been around for quite some time. The ENIAC was turned off the day before he was born, so he missed that but he hasn’t missed much since. He’s had a chance to punch cards, program 6502 chips (remember the Apple II?),...
ajaxian — Everyone's chomping at the bit to leverage new HTML5 and CSS3 features but with some older browsers not supporting them, hacks are still needed to make things work in a cross-browser fashion. We've seen libs that make things easier such as Remy Sharp's html5shiv and Modernizr and now we can...
ajaxian — The week has been long. Much code has been written. There is much more to do, but Friday is for relaxing a little. Take some time, sit back and watch, as three fantastic videos are available for you: French: Paul Rouget of Mozilla, shows you the future Paul builds the best demos....
sencha — If you have worked with Java, you are undoubtedly familiar with the JavaDoc tool. JavaDoc is the de facto standard for creating API documentation based on comments in Java source code. Although JavaDoc documentation contains most of the information you are looking for, the way it presents that information leaves...
ajax.phpmagazine — Galactic Plunder is a new JavaScript game that uses the power of Canvas and Audio object in HTML5. The game was developed as a proof of concept that a shooter-style game can be coded without the use of any Flash. The first level of the game is fully implemented, and...
sencha — Using standard Ext components and a couple of custom ones, you can create a great looking diff viewer for the web that requires no backend.
ajaxian — I can't believe none of us knew DOM2 This is how a tweet from @SubtleGradient, re-tweeted by @jdalton, has been able to steal my rest tonight ... and this post is the consequence ... What's new in a nutshell There is a W3C Recommendation about addEventListener behavior, which clearly specify the second argument...
ajaxian — It floors me what young, talented developers are building these days. Kit Goncharov, who only recently turned 17, just cranked out Quilt, a JavaScript preprocessor written in JavaScript. Quilt is very similar to the Sprockets JS preprocessor in that it allows you to improve code organization by logically separating your...
yuiblog — In Mobile Browser Cache Limits: Android, iOS, and webOS, I shared the results of my attempts to determine browser cache limits on Android, iOS, and webOS devices. At the end of the article, I wrote: Use these results as a starting point, but verify them yourself before you make major decisions...
ajaxian — Charles Jolley: “I started working in SproutCore almost 5 years ago because I believe the future of software development lies in native-style apps in the web browser. It is the platform of the future and when that shift change happens, I want to be there with the technology. Now, I...
sencha — We've finalized the dates and location for our 2010 User Conference. It will be at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco from November 14th through 17th.
ajaxian — In the spring of 2005, the two of us gave our first Ajax talk together. The subject of the talk was DHTML, but Jesse James Garrett had just coined “Ajax” a few days previous, so we sprinkled the term throughout the slide deck. We needed a place to put some...
yuiblog — Nicholas C. Zakas (@slicknet on Twitter) is the lead frontend engineer on the Yahoo! homepage, a YUI contributor, and author of Professional JavaScript for Web Developers and the newly-released, High Performance JavaScript. Base64 encoding was originally designed to allow lossless data passing between 8-bit and 7-bit systems. The primary example...
ajaxian — Mozilla went to London, England yesterday night to give a workshop about Mozilla Add-Ons and show some of the cool new stuff coming in Firefox 4. Probably the most impressive thing (next to the new Add-Ons Builder based on Bespin) was the upcoming Features of Firefox 4: HTML5 Video display Painting...
googlewebtoolkit.blogspot — Recently Apple released Safari 5, which included a bug where non-integral right-shifts were not being evaluated properly. There were several reports, both internally and externally, of GWT-based applications unexpectedly crashing when running in Safari 5 (including Google Wave). Upon further inspection of the crash, we determined that the bug is...
