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on March 20, 2010, 2:33 pm,
by admin,
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JavaScript.
Are you trying out the IE9 preview yet? I will completely admit I’m a bit behind on this, but I’m not sure I’m missing too much yet.
The charts over at the MSDN blog look like there’s some nice features and great speed coming in IE9, to be sure. And in their recent unveiling of IE9 preview releases, MS has promised new builds every 8 weeks.
Here’s a small roundup of some useful tidbits on IE9 I’ve found.
I’m probably going to be trying it out next month. The most interesting thing I’ve read so far was a reference to IE9’s ability to compile JavaScript directly to machine code, to take advantage of multi-cpu processing. Certainly given IE’s tight coupling with Windows this will be something they can do much more easily than other browsers. Will it make a difference? To performance speed on certain tasks, I can imagine it would. I’m not sure that doing those sorts of tasks in JavaScript will catch on, though, and it might be that developers looking to do those sorts of heavy CPU tasks might just stay in Silverlight if it’s only going to be beneficial on Windows platforms.
That’s just a first impression though – it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. Long term, though, MS still needs to get users off *IE6* before we can make much more progress as a development community. Without specifically having to target browsers, I can be *fairly* assured that what I’m writing will look and operate decently on Safari, Chrome, FF and Opera. IE *still* ends up being a struggle, and while it’s a large piece of the pie, in many communities it doesn’t even represent the largest minority of browsershare these days.
Posted
on March 15, 2010, 1:44 pm,
by mgkimsal,
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JavaScript.
I just came across this today and thought I’d share it with you all – http://jqueryvsmootools.com Does anyone know of other sites that go in to as much comparison between various toolkits as this one does?
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JSMag March 2010 Issue
TAME THOSE PERFORMANCE MONSTERS
Kyle Simpson shows how to load your JavaScript more efficiently
AN OVERVIEW OF SERVER-SIDE JAVASCRIPT
Tom Hughes-Croucher shows you your options to keep using the language you love on the server
MARKING TERRITORY WITH THE GOOGLE MAPS API
Learn how to make the most of Google Maps with Jason Gilmore
ROLL YOUR OWN
Rob Robbins kicks off his new column on building your own library
JAVASCRIPT BEGINNER’S CORNER
Tom McFarlin covers programming conditions
CROSS PLATFORM – DOM MANIPULATION
Christian Tiberg explores selector functionality between major libraries
JAVASCRIPT PATTERNS – CURRYING
Stoyan Stefanov shows you how to add some spice to your apps with currying
COMMUNITY NEWS
Matt Henry rounds up the latest news from the world of JavaScript.
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JSMag February 2010 Issue
GETTING STARTED WITH NODE.JS
Ben Dowling gives you the low down on getting up and running with Node.js.
UPLOADING IMAGES WITH HTML5
Christian Tiberg compares uploading an image with both YUI and jQuery.
JAVASCRIPT BEGINNER’S CORNER
Get started with JavaScript’s basics with Tom McFarlin.
WEBOS: PALM’S GAME-CHANGING MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM – PART 3
Frank Zammetti’s wraps up his series on Palm’s webOS platform – part 3 of 3
PLUGGING IN TO JAVASCRIPT
Shea Frederick demonstrates building your own plugin using both jQuery and ExtJS.
JAVASCRIPT PATTERNS – PRIVATE MEMBERS
Stoyan Stefanov explores the Sandbox Pattern.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Matt Henry rounds up the latest news from the world of JavaScript.
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Posted
on February 7, 2010, 10:30 pm,
by admin,
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News.
On the heels of my recent find, I stumbled on this collection of multiple JavaScript demos. I’m both blown away by many of these, and yet, at the same time, becoming slightly jaded by all the JavaScript goodness being realized these days. On one level, I *know* this stuff is possible, so it doesn’t feel like ‘magic’ like these sorts of things did years ago. On the other hand, these are just so darn *cool*, it’s hard not to think that JavaScript frameworks will continue to improve and rival ‘traditional’ RIA tools (Flash, Flex, Silverlight, etc).
Have a look at these couple demos:
http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/
http://js-fireworks.appspot.com/
Do these sorts of things continue to carry the same feeling of ‘magic’ for you that they did when you first saw them?
Posted
on February 2, 2010, 2:36 pm,
by mgkimsal,
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JavaScript,
News.
The “Sublime” video player is a new HTML5-based video player, offering you a way to stream video directly in to a browser without the need for any plugin (Silverlight, Flash, etc.) The project looks to be in relatively early stages, but works fine on my Chrome browser, supports Safari now, and will support Firefox soon. The project also states that a ‘fallback to Flash’ mode for IE will be supported soon too.
Definitely looks like a project to watch. While I assume there will be more projects like this in the coming months, Sublime may become one of the default choices for a generation of early adopters.
Posted
on January 30, 2010, 2:34 pm,
by mgkimsal,
under
JavaScript,
News.
It’s not exactly what I was thinking of at first. I’d imagined some type of ray tracing showing details of cloth texture. Howver, this demo from Andre Hoyer is infinitely cooler than what I’d first imagined.
“Cloth simulation” simulates the outline of a piece of cloth/fabric dangling on the screen, which you can drag around by various points on the object. And the “cloth” will react and move and eventually resettle to its original hanging position. All with realistically generated animations based on physics/gravity, and all computed in real time in JavaScript. Simply amazing. This is the sort of thing that wowed the world with applets 14 years ago, and wowed the world again when Flash started to make a big play in the browser a few years later.
HTML5 is coming, and the sorts of things that were reserved for plugins only will be “in browser” and common in the next few years.
“Cloth simulation” demo.
Posted
on January 21, 2010, 1:54 am,
by mgkimsal,
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JavaScript,
News.
YouTube is starting to roll out experimental support for HTML5 video playing, using native browser HTML5 support rather than relying on Flash plugins. The support is limited to certain browsers and certain videos, and can be accessed by visiting the ‘TestTube‘ area of YouTube (or directly here). While this is early stages, having such a large company like YouTube supporting this (and hopefully rolling it out soon) will certainly help drive adoption of the multimedia uses of HTML5. I’m looking forward to see what’s next!
Posted
on January 19, 2010, 6:33 pm,
by mgkimsal,
under
JavaScript,
News.
Just saw this making the rounds:
From : http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=5078
Developer Tobias Schneider created the software called “Gordon” which allows Flash apps to display on the iPhone. It’s a Flash interpreter written in Javascript, the language which is supported by all web browsers, including the iPhone, for allowing elements on web pages to be interactive, without requiring a full page refresh. Javascript is heavily used in web apps like Gmail and Facebook, but until now has been mostly used in its pure form — it generally isn’t used to interpret other languages.
Sounds promising :)
JSMag January 2010 Issue
SKIN OF THE RHINO
Charles Lowell demonstrates building a command line in JavaScript.
USING JSDOC
Learn all about inline JavaScript documentation with JsDoc, from Michael Mathews.
MANY FUNCTIONS OF FUNCTIONS
Tom McFarlin explores the many uses of functions.
WEBOS: PALM’S GAME-CHANGING MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM – PART 2
Frank Zammetti’s back and shows you why Palm’s webOS deserves the hype it’s been getting – part 2 of 3
WRITING WINDOWS GADGETS IN YUI
Christian Tiberg shows you how to exploit YUI to build desktop for Windows.
JAVASCRIPT PATTERNS – SANDBOX PATTERN
Stoyan Stefanov explores the Sandbox Pattern.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Matt Henry rounds up the latest news from the world of JavaScript.
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