John Esposito12/28/11
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RDBMSers love their ACID and SQL, but the rapidly-growing world of in-browser databases can't afford, and usually doesn't need, that kind of pristine simplicity.For web applications, even database-centered applications, performance and ease of use -- and,...
John Esposito12/28/11
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One of the more ambitious low-level web standards presently under development is the Filesystem API, currently in W3C Working Draft status.Rather
than creating its own local storage space, an application using the
Filesystem API can navigate the user's...
Axel Rauschmayer12/28/11
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Paul Miller’s es6-shim
gives you functionality that will be in ECMAScript 6 (code-named
ECMAScript.next), on ECMAScript 5 engines. It was initially based on a
project of mine, but adds much new functionality, Node.js compatibility,
and (not least)...
John Esposito12/27/11
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Chris Dickinson, like Opera's Bruce Lawson, received his undergraduate degree in humanities -- but has loved programming since high school, and especially loves game development.The best games aren't just tech-tacular, either: rather, they use technology to...
Robert Diana12/27/11
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As the year comes to a close, everyone is posting predictions about
the new year as well as reviewing their predictions from the prior year.
Here at Regular Geek, I would like to look at the trends to determine
what changed things and what trends we...
Andrey Prikaznov12/27/11
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I hope that you still remember when we did our first Paint program with HTML5.
Today I have decided to enhance it by adding new additional brush to
it. This brush will use ‘bezierCurveTo’ function. As a result we will have
an interesting effect;...
John Esposito12/26/11
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Recently I ran across Rawkets, a slick site taking two emerging web technologies -- HTML5 Canvas and WebSockets -- and combining them in the most obvious way possible: a multiplayer space shooter.Why Canvas? No plugins -- graphical Yes; and why WebSockets?...
Terrence Ryan12/26/11
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One of the little things I like about Android is the "toast."
If you are not familiar with the toast, it is the little transparent
notice you get that operations are done. The best example is the toast
that tells you how long you will have to...
John Esposito12/25/11
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In the spirit of the season, how about a clever Canvas Christmas tree? which looks static like this: but when unleashed on the browser's renderer, rotates beautifully, with shading, in the midst of the falling snow.Cool enough simply to admire! But apropos of...
John Esposito12/24/11
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If I had a dime for every time I created a text drop-shadow in Photoshop, I wouldn't have worried about the price. But this seems a little wasteful: drop-shadowing for a living would be like erecting awnings for a living, if Photoshop were a structural...
John Esposito12/24/11
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So a bunch of pure CSS3 logos isn't as much fun as the South Park CSS3 I posted a few weeks ago -- but it's probably closer to real dev projects, and in some ways more complex.Logos are pieces of design excellence, often huge investments by companies with a...
Krzysztof Kotowicz 12/23/11
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WebSockets is
definately one of the brighter features of HTML5. It allows for easy and
efficient real-time commucation with the server, and with the
introduction of Socket.IO, node.js
and similar libraries, it is sure to gain popularity. It's a must...
Gil Fink12/23/11
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When
I first encountered CSS3 transform property, I had a nostalgic moment
that took me back to the days that I was a computer science student.
Back then, one of the mathematics courses that I had to take was linear
algebra. Linear algebra deals with...
John Esposito12/23/11
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This video outlines and demonstrates the new features of the latest IE10 platform preview (downloadable here), emphasizing hardware acceleration of HTML5 and related technologies.
Andrey Prikaznov12/23/11
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Today we will be developing a great HTML5 file upload form with
progress bar and preview (at client-side). We have already given you
jQuery based solution, but today’s application doesn't require jQuery at
all. Everything is made in pure HTML5...
Giorgio Sironi12/22/11
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Three.js is a library for rendering 3D models into a browser, without using Flash or other third-party plugins. In 3D graphics, the actual model of a scene is built in a solid space (three dimensions, obviously), and depending of the current view point,...
John Esposito12/22/11
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By all accounts, IE10 will be a very good thing. Speed and standards both, and conquest of zombie browsers through the power of Windows Update. Fewer headaches for developers worrying about (old) IE's worldwide massive marketshare. Recently Ted Johnson of the...
John Esposito12/22/11
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New features in HTML5 mean new accessibility issues, whether problematic or no (there's some disagreement on this). Here are two resources for keeping up with the current status quo:html5accessibility.com includes tables detailing each browser's HTML5...
jb j12/22/11
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Among all cool new features introduced by HTML5, the
possibility of caching web pages for offline use is definitely one of my
favorites. Today, I’m glad to show you how you can create a page that
will be available for offline...
Prashant Khandelwal12/22/11
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This
is great stuff. If you own a website or a blog you should use this
excellent feature of pinning fav links of your site on user's Windows 7
taskbar. Though this feature of IE9 was on hype since it's beta
realease. Now it's time to use this...
John Esposito12/21/11
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When Microsoft announced that IE will soon begin to update automatically, plenty of web developers rejoiced. No more IE6! Lots more IE9, and IE10, and more!Caveat faber, though: Windows XP can't get past IE8, and Windows 7 only recently, and just barely,...
Simon Sarris12/21/11
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This is an big overhaul of one of my tutorials on making and
moving shapes on an HTML5 Canvas. This new tutorial is vastly cleaner
than my old one, but if you still want to see that one or are looking
for the concept of a “ghost context” you...
John Esposito12/21/11
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From Richard Clark on the superb html5doctor.com comes this new treatment of the HTML5 <output> element, one of the new semantic elements designed to make webpage data more readable to machines.Why must machines know that one number is the output of a...
Andrey Prikaznov12/21/11
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We
continue a series of articles on game development in HTML5 using canvas. Today I prepared musical example (it will be something like a synthesizer) with alternative DOM-based dialogs in CSS3. Why did I add
separated dialogs? – Easy: mostly because...
Niels Matthijs12/21/11
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Sometimes people can be so focused on theory that
they completely miss the fact that real life has already caught up with
theory. Last week I discovered that html5 microdata can finally be used
in the wild, so I jumped on it for some cosy...
