This post mentions IE6 everywhere, but it’s not about IE6 at all. In my standard rant on the three ages of web development, a standard sub-rant is our improved ability to develop on IE6:
Although it was created back in 2001, we could do far more with it in 2004 (e.g. Google Maps) than we could [...]
Tags: Ajax·html5·IE6·Javascript
Jump straight to the demo.
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing makes it possible to do arbitrary calls from a web page to any server, if the server consents. It's a typical HTML5 play: We could do similar things before, but they were with hacks like JSONP. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing lets us can achieve more and do it [...]
Tags: Ajax·html5·Javascript·Microformats·Web Services·XMLHttpRequest
I like jQuery a lot, but I often find myself re-doing my way of OO and inheritance each time I start a new app. And so, I just did it again of course.
I was starting to write a lame HTML5 game, where you have "AlienModels" (of the MVC, not Star Trek, variety), and each with [...]
Tags: Javascript·JQuery
> parseInt(1000) 1000 > parseInt(1000.0) 1000 > parseInt("1000.0") 1000 > parseInt(1e3) 1000 > parseInt("1e3") 1
WTFJS
So how to actually parse it with Javascript built-in? Spoiler alert - select the following white text:
parseInt(parseFloat("1e3"))
(Thanks @CAIndy)
Tags: Javascript·wtfjs
Wanting to explore WebSocket, I made a demo that syncs videos for all users looking at the page (See the Code). Any user can "take control", so that the other videos will follow the controller's video. Writing it was a cinch with the Javascript WebSocket API in the client, and the very straightforward Node WebSocket [...]
Tags: html5·Javascript·Video·WebSocket
About Browserscope
Browserscope is a very cool tool coming out of Steve Souders' performance efforts and being developed by Steve along with Lindsey Simon. It's part of a trend towards crowdsourcing browser info, in similar vein to TestSwarm, for testing specific code, and along the lines of what I did with WebWait, which is to support [...]
I coded up a small demo of Web SQL Database. As the demo points out, notice you can hit reload and the data remains, being that it's one of the several techniques for offline storage.
There's not much to say about Web SQL - you either know SQL already, in which case it's fairly straightforward and [...]
Google I/O is over and I'll post a bit about the HTML5 hack session I ran later, but here I want to highlight a couple of upcoming sessions in Europe:
UXCampEurope. If this is anything like the Bay Area and London UX camps I've been fortunate to attend, it will be huge, and being Europe-wide and [...]
Tags: Conference·HCI UXCamp UX·html5·Javascript·Mobile·SWDC·UX·UXCamp·Web
I've been mucking with AppCache, aka ApplicationCache. It's the secret sauce that lets you build offline apps, which is great for performance and fabulous for pretending to be an iPhone app when you're not.
Quickstart an Offline App
As with most HTML5 technologies, the basic usage is quite simple:
Create a trivial trio of HTML, CSS, and JS [...]
Tags: html5·Javascript·Web
This is a gotcha that will catch a lot of people out because it goes against the expectation that you just change an image's appearance by setting its "src", done. And also, it's a deviation from the more general convention that you change DOM properties declaratively to make stuff happen. Probably for good reason, given [...]
Tags: audio·html5·Javascript·Video
