It is quite interesting to see how technology moves in circles. With canvas being the new fun toy to play with for creating browser-based games we have to find solutions to fake a 3D environment to be really fast (sure there is Canvas 3D but it is overkill for most games). The trick is to [...]

This is a Friday post that happens to show up on Monday 2010 will have a lot of Web based OS products, including the much anticipated Chrome OS. Why wait for that when you can use Windows 3.11: Browser Edition?

Or, check out webOS on mobile, Jollicloud on Netbook, and many others.

Tim de Koning has done what folks do best with their winter holidays…. created something fun With JSC64 he has ported the Flash version to give us an emulator for the Commodore 64 in JavaScript.
Tim’s work uses Canvas and he provides a jQuery plugin if you are that way inclined. It is fun to check [...]

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 [...]

This is in the crazy but fun category, so I had to post this on a Friday. Toki Woki Scroll Clock:

Amazing what folks do with div overflows All in a few lines of MooTools-used-JS:
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JAVASCRIPT:

var h1, h2, m1, m2, s1, s2;

window.addEvent(’domready’, function() {

        h1=new Digit();

        h2=new Digit();

      [...]

The week is almost over, and that means it’s Fun Friday! Ajax and HTML5 aren’t just for serious business apps (”business in the front, party in the back”):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyjohngreen/ / CC BY 2.0
This week we have JS Wars from Jonas Wagner:

There are a couple of unique things about this game that makes it a good educational [...]

We usually post these on Friday, but who says a little fun on Monday is wrong? Paul Brunt has put together a nifty game using the Canvas tag. It’s pretty impressive. He is also using Chrome Frame to have the game work on IE as well.

Play it now

This Saturday, the 19th of September is once again talk like a pirate day and there is a terribly easy way this year to turn your boring ol’ site into a swashbuckling Piratespeak one. Simply include the following script node at the end of your body element:
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XML:

<script src=”http://l.yimg.com/d/lib/ydn/js/pirate1252961643.js”></script>

The Piratespeak translation script is powered [...]

Christian Hertlein and Marcus Paeschke spent their summer creating Fontplore an experiment that allows you to explore the world of fonts using an interactive table and some funky objects to represent navigation and actions.

The application running on the table is written in Java (using the NetBeans IDE) and based on the Processing framework. We use [...]

Fancy a break? Take Mr. Speaker’s little JavaScript platformer for a spin.

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