- 30 JavaScript developers you should follow
- A comparison of mobile HTML5 frameworks: Sencha Touch, jQuery Mobile, jQTouch, Titanium
- Very nice HTML5 game: Sinuous – deceptively simple, but very addictive
- Extreme CSS3: iphone with working world clock done in CSS3 without any images
- Interesting JavaScript sprite benchmarks across many browsers and a good analysis of possible speed improvements in HTML5 animations.
Roundup for February 9th, 2011
Roundup for February 7th, 2011
- BitmapData.js : HTML5 Canvas API implementation of the AS3 BitmapData class with very interesting image blending options
- Paul Irish discusses his HTML5 Boilerplate in this one-hour video.
- Great discussion on how much reflection-encrusted pseudo-chrome we need in UI design.
- Isotope: great jQuery plugin to enable complex animated page layouts.
- RGraph: A HTML5 canvas graph library. Looks very comprehensive with a wide array of possible chart types.
Roundup for February 3rd, 2011
- Seb Lee-Delisle has a great post up explaining his HTML5 Canvas 3D particle system
- Microsoft explains their point of view on HTML5 video codecs and why they will stick with H.264 – however in a twist to Google’s WebM plugin for IE, MS offers now also H.264 codec plugins for Firefox and Chrome (sadly only for Win7)!
- Arthur Schreiber has a great introduction to window.mozRequestAnimationFrame and window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame and gives us a basic framework for game loops with consistent fps
- Ara Pehlivanian has a good post up on scriptjunkie on writing maintainable OO JavaScript.
- mooplay – a very nice custom HTML5 video player based on mootools.
Roundup for February 1, 2011
- window.btoa() and window.atob() are on their way into the WHATWG specifications. http://html5.org/r/5814 Here is the Mozilla documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Window.atob
- Seb Lee-Delisle shows a great speed improvement to Canvas sprite animations by avoiding sub-pixel rendering.
- This is from last week, but well worth the link: 11 More Things I Learned from the jQuery Source by Paul Irish
- I’ve added a Web Audio API version of my Audio Visualizer to the site: Web Audio API Visualizer
Roundup for January 31, 2011
- Today IANA allocated its last two /8 IP ranges. The Internet is now officially out of old-style IPv4 addresses.
- Very cool: Making music with the New York subway map: http://www.mta.me/ by Alexander Chen
- Google’s Julia Map fractal generator is pretty cool and a dangerous time sink: http://juliamap.googlelabs.com
- Tom Leadbetter notified me (Thanks!) that the video track subtitle format has been changed from SRT to WebVTT – not sure how I feel about this, but an update to VideoSub is now certain!
- Chrome and Safari get beta builds with the Web Audio API – this is different from the Audio Data API from the Mozilla team and there will be much confusion until these two proposed technologies have been united…