I was pleased to attend Casual Connect this week and talked about how HTML5 is becoming viable for games development, alongside my colleague Mark, who covered the Chrome Web Store in general. I was definitively there in a purely web geek capacity, as gaming is not an industry I’m very familiar with. So here are [...]
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Letters from a Gaming Newbie
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · SoftwareDev
Tags: Conference·Games·html5·Web
Using BrowserScope to Detect Geolocation Support
May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · SoftwareDev
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 [...]
Another HTML5 Tidbit: Web SQL Database
May 27th, 2010 · No Comments · SoftwareDev
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 [...]
Upcoming: UXCampEurope and SWDC
May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · SoftwareDev
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
Offline Apps with Application Cache: Quickstart, Tips, and Deep Dive
May 19th, 2010 · 5 Comments · SoftwareDev
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
HTML5 is a Brand
May 3rd, 2010 · 5 Comments · SoftwareDev
HTML5 has conflicting definitions.
If you go by the official WHAT-WG spec, HTML5 is a list of specific features, including Canvas, Video, Audio, the new form controls, the new semantic markups, and microdata.
If you go by the media and Steve Jobs, HTML5 is simply a new platform that lets us do rich, interactive, applications without the [...]
WebWait Updated
April 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments · SoftwareDev
One of the projects I wanted to work on in my time off was WebWait.
It finally does what I wanted it to do all along: Permanently record benchmarks. You can get a unique URL for each benchmarking session you run by hitting Save. Funny - WebWait was running as a Rails app for several years, [...]
Unintended Consequences and the Inevitable “Why Would Anyone Want To Do This?”
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · SoftwareDev
I'm listening to this excellent BBC podcast on Unintended Consequences of Mathematics.
In his book The Mathematician's Apology (1941), the Cambridge mathematician GH Hardy expressed his reverence for pure maths, and celebrated its uselessness in the real world. Yet one of the branches of pure mathematics in which Hardy excelled was number theory, and it was [...]
Events Last Week: Web Fonts, Social Design Patterns, BT Dev Day, Real-Time Javascript
January 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · HumansAndTech, SoftwareDev
Last week saw a confluence of excellent events. In the same week as a house move, it proved to be a week of much learning and little sleep. I'd hoped to do a better write-up, it never happened, a combination of being too busy and new MAC BATTERIES SUCK, meaning the lappy couldn't last [...]
Tags: CSS·CSS3·Design Patterns·Fonts·html5·Javascript·NodeJS·Web
