When I talked about some snow related CSS3 experiment, I could not imagine @Natbat was already preparing something like snowflakes, an almost fully CSS3 featured snow FX created for clearleft, specially suited for Chrome and Safari.
And what about @zacharyjohnson? He put snow all over the network via its Winternetizer, the first snow proxy I have [...]
Want to show how to use your layout library? Why not mimic a well known layout and show how easy it is? That is what Volodya Kolesnikov has done with his Google Wave layout in 100 lines of code sample.
It is powered by uki (shorted from “ui kit”) and Volodya told us more about it:
UKI [...]
The WebKit Inspector tool has a new tab, the Audits panel which aims to be like Google PageSpeed and YSlow! built right in.
A little crude, but good to see:
Steve Hanov has produced a Canvas-based drawing tool with a hand-drawn look. Lines can be drawn with a “sloppiness” option, with possible values “Draftsman”, “Artist”, “Cartoonist”, “Child”, and – perfect for this time of year – “Drunk” :). The FG Virgil font, applied to text elements, adds to the cartoon vibe.
The techniques are used in [...]
Jeremy Ashkenas is experimenting with a new language that translates down to JavaScript. The language is CoffeeScript and I kinda like the syntax.
Jeremy told us:
I’ve been working on a little language with a Ruby/Potion-esque syntax that compiles into JavaScript. It tries to enforce “the good parts”, convert statements into expressions automatically, and adds some extra [...]
The infamous Christian Effenberger has a new library to share:
TransM.js 1.0 allows you to add programmable image transitions to your webpages. Features 113 transitions, 32 tweenings, individual corners, overlay graphics and event actions. Requires no plugin/extension or any other external resource! It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
You can play around with an [...]
Greg Wilkins tried to get people to do better than WebSocket as it was being defined. His BWTP proposal didn’t get traction so what does he do? He introcuces a great Jetty WebSocket implementation:
Chrome and Firefox will soon be supporting WebSocket, so WebSocket (for better or for worse) will soon be available in the [...]
Michael Bolin of Google has created Closure Lite as a way to let developers get their feet wet in the Closure library without having to go into the compiler and the like (but they should do that eventually!).
Closure Lite itself consists of the following subset of APIs:
goog.array
goog.Disposable
goog.dispose
goog.dom
goog.dom.DomHelper
goog.events.NodeType
goog.dom.TagName
goog.dom.classes
goog.dom.xml
goog.events
goog.events.BrowserEvent
goog.events.Event
goog.events.EventHandler
goog.events.EventType
goog.events.EventTarget
goog.events.KeyEvent
goog.events.KeyCodes
goog.events.KeyHandler
goog.events.Listener
goog.functions
goog.json
goog.math.Box
goog.math.Coordinate
goog.math.Rect
goog.math.Size
goog.net.ErrorCode
goog.net.EventType
goog.net.XhrIo
goog.net.XhrMonitor
goog.net.XmlHttp
goog.object
goog.string
goog.structs
goog.structs.Map
goog.structs.Set
goog.style
goog.Timer
goog.userAgent
goog.userAgent.product
goog.window
It is build via the closure compiler itself, building [...]
Lloyd Hilaiel of Yahoo! BrowserPlus fame, has a little holiday gift for us. He has created a simple library called Orderly that “is a textual format for describing JSON. Orderly can be compiled into JSONSchema. It is designed to be easy to read and write.”
He shares:
A little bit of orderly…
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
object {
string name;
string [...]
I am sure MathML took off somewhere, but I never really saw it. MathJax seems to have a chance at being a practical solution that offers a high quality display of LaTeX and MathML math notation in HTML pages.
You can embed the following LaTeX right in your page:
PLAIN TEXT
HTML:
<p>The Lorenz Equations</p>
\[\begin{matrix}
\dot{x} & = & [...]