So, yet another week, and another fairly large announcement from Google. They’ve been coming pretty fast and furious lately – the open-sourcing of both Closure and Chrome OS are two fairly recent developments. However, the one this post will focus on is the announcement that Google is working on a new application-level protocol, dubbed SPDY.
SPDY [...]
Google just open sourced Closure, their robust JavaScript library. Closure is used in a variety of Google products, notably GMail and Google Docs. I had a chance to play with it for a few minutes, and I’m posting my first impressions.
Google Closure is a fairly complete JavaScript framework. In that sense, it duplicates a lot [...]
A quick note – I’ve updated my jQuery Image Overlay Plugin to version 1.1. This version adds support for pinning the overlay so it is always viewable (not just when you mouse over the image). There were no other changes, so you should be able to upgrade without worry.
Here’s a 3D CSS Animated Image Carousel that I created while I was learning about 3D CSS animation. Watch the video above to see the technique in action. If you’re on a 3D CSS animation capable browser (currently a non-production version of MAC Safari and mobile Safari in the iPhone and iPod Touch), go ahead [...]
Here’s a GeoLocator example I put together that showcases two popular GeoLocation techniques – IP lookup and using the GeoLocation API – in order to both demonstrate the techniques as well as to show the issues with each.
In HTML, there are a few ways of determining the location of a user. Traditionally, this has always [...]
I’ve created my first jQuery plugin this week – it’s an image overlay plugin (the static pic above doesn’t do the plugin justice, so click through to see it in action).
Creating a jQuery plugin isn’t that big a stretch for a competent JavaScript developer. There are quite a few tutorials out there where you can [...]
I created a new version of my particle demo using the HTML5 <canvas>. This version is full screen, inspired by this amazing canvas demo at Iteration Six. I’d seen their demo prior to my starting to tinker with the canvas tag, but I never really tore it apart and looked inside. From what it appears, [...]
Firefox 3.5, the recent release of the latest version of the Firefox web browser, now supports CSS transforms. CSS transforms are effects, such as scale, rotate and skew. This is a step forward for the Gecko rendering engine, but in plain terms, it still clearly lags behind webkit, which supports 2D and 3D CSS animations.
I’ve [...]
I recently downloaded the latest version of Opera in order to try out the Opera Unite service. If you haven’t heard, Unite is a web server that is hosted from within Opera (as a widget). The idea is that you can load Opera up on your PC, turn on the Unite service, and then be [...]
I’ve been focusing a lot lately on demonstrating some CSS animation techniques. That’s all fine and well, but there is definitely a need for some instructional material on the web. To that end, check out this CSS animation tutorial that I just finished. It will teach you some techniques that are useful today in a [...]
