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, [...]
Jaxer is a somewhat new technology that I’ve recently started to delve into. Jaxer is billed as the first AJAX server – basically, it’s a combination of a ‘web server’ and a set of APIs that can be used to develop web applications that transparently utilize asynchronous XMLHTTPRequests instead of postbacks as the standard way [...]
Did you get the chance to read that Visual Studio will be shipping with jQuery support included in the future? This news just made my day, more or less. If you aren’t in the know, jQuery is a really well developed JavaScript framework library. It includes support for things like making AJAX requests, easy DOM [...]
If you’re a web developer who’s in charge of creating content management systems, there’s a great control you’ve got to check out – TinyMCE. TinyMCE is a free, open source WYSIWIG text editor. The beauty of it is that it’s feature-rich, it’s platform independent (being written entirely in JavaScript), and it’s extremely easy to configure [...]
I’ve been playing around with a few freely available Javascript libraries as of late, and I’ve been so very impressed at the quality and ease of use of what’s out there. I’m sure that most web developers are fairly well versed in the art, but since my career took a slightly different path until late, [...]
