If you are checking out Google today with a modern browser (Firefox, Chrome and Safari all work) you’ll see a slick animated buckyball draw itself in the place of the second “o” in the word “Google”.
The cool part is that it’s interactive, you can mouse over it and spin it in any direction you want.
Originally [...]
Tag Archives: JavaScript
Google Celebrates 25 Years of the Buckyball With Helacious Markup
10 Amazing Examples of JavaScript and HTML5
Zef.me put together a list of 10 amazing JavaScript/HTML examples that a lot of people (me included) thought still required Flash to do.
Some of the highlights is an accurate (and performant) interactive cloth simulation by Andrew Hoyer. You can drag any node on the “cloth” around and have it’s 3D skeleton realistically react to the interaction; swinging [...]
AJAX SHA-1/256/384/512 Hash Generator Released
In addition to the other handy AJAX-enabled utilities we released, we’ve just added a SHA (1, 256, 384 and 512) generator utility to the collection.
Enjoy!
Slick JavaScript Color Picker Utility
I find myself on Google searching for “color picker“s a lot more often than I ever thought I would; you really never anticipate how often you want to double-check how a color looks, or what it’s hex code is when you are messing with CSS.
Dion Almaer tweeted a link to a great JavaScript color picker [...]
Amazing HTML5 Canvas / JavaScript Animation Examples
Hakim El Hattab has put together a series of HTML5 Canvas animation examples on his website, hakim.se that are fantastic showcases of how animation-friendly HTML5 is on it’s own without Flash.
Right now the use of Canvas is still relatively new and raw, but as the years tick on and more and more HTML5-capable browsers are [...]
HTML5 Drag and Drop and File API Tutorial
Introduction
Over the last day I’ve been trying to learn how to use the new HTML5 Drag and Drop API as well as the new File API. I want to create a really nice drag-and-drop experience for users trying to upload files to a webapp; much like Google just did with Drag and Drop attachments in [...]
Use IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence,String) to Avoid Duplicates
Apace Wicket Quick Tip
If you are working with multiple AjaxEventBehavior’s (like AjaxFormSubmitBehavior and AjaxFormValidatingBehavior) on similar components in a Page and you are using IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence) it’s possible you are contributing duplicate JavaScript over and over again to the header section of your Page unecessarily.
As it turns out, by simply changing to use the IHeaderResponse.renderJavaScript(CharSequence,String) method (providing [...]
ZK 3.5.1 Released – RIA Framework, NetBeans Plugin and Tutorial
This past week ZKoss refreshed their flagship product, ZK, to version 3.5.1. If you haven’t heard of ZK before, it is a very slick framework which was “designed to maximize enterprise operation efficiency and minimize the development cost [with] its groundbreaking Direct RIA architecture. ”
Unlike most marketing ploys used to overstate the capabilities of a [...]
Netflix Releases Developer API, Surprisingly Powerful
Netflix released it’s long-awaited developer API yesterday (JavaScript, REST) and to a lot of people’s surprise, was quite a bit more open-ended than expected:
We’re pleased to announce the availability of the Netflix API. The team has been hard at work on this and we’re glad we can finally let people see what we’ve built. The [...]
Google's Chrome Browser Process Model Explained
Marc Chung has posted an in-depth analysis of Google’sChrome Browser process model. Why this is interesting is because the new process model in Chrome is one of the most powerful aspects of the browser, allowing it to render JavaScript-heavy web applications much faster without blocking the entire browser process hung in a render loop (something [...]
Tracing JavaScript Engine Coming in Firefox 3 Could Give 20-40x Performance Boost in Some Scenarios
Ars has a piece up about the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine work that we will first see in Firefox 3.1 (currently in nightlies) but is the first part of major JavaScript work known as Tamarin that won’t be seen until Firefox 4.0.
Apparently the Mozilla JavaScript engine is getting worked over from the ground up with an [...]
JavaCC Grammar for EcmaScript
It looks like the Dojo developers have released a JavaCC Grammar for EcmaScript, more specifically ECMA-262 Standard 3rd edition.
Junior developer does a fairly good writeup about it as he’s in the middle of writing a new JavaCC book (not a feat for the weak hearted).
For the folks wondering what this is, JavaCC is a compiler [...]
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