Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Wed, 29 Mar 2006Google puts Canvas on IE: The Game Changer Update: ExplorerCanvas is the official project name. Master Canvas hacker Benjamin Joffe announced something on the canvas developers group yesterday that, in my humble opinion, is a game changer. Google is putting canvas on Internet Explorer. Benjamin received a pre-release version of a Javascript library (soon to be officially released on http://code.google.com/) that, when included on a page with canvas, allows the downtrodden Internet Explorer users of the world to step into the wonderful world of canvas. Emil started this work and it looks like Google is finishing it. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the implications of Google's work on this ... look out world! Here are a few examples that are using Google's canvas library:[/projects/ajaxtrains] permanent link Thu, 19 Jan 2006Canvas, Ajax, and the Supertrain: Reloaded After I wrote my Supertrains article last month, O'Reilly's XML.com decided to publish it. I reworked the Javascript into a more object-oriented style, replaced the homegrown wire protocol with JSON, and added a "hotspots" feature. I can't resist quoting Brooks...To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion. I am very thankful. --The Mythical Man Month, p. 291 [/projects/ajaxtrains] permanent link Fri, 23 Dec 2005Canvas, Ajax, and the Supertrain I've written a tutorial on how to combine canvas and Ajax. In this article I use canvas to graphically represent the real-time state of a fictional railway system (live example). Send me feedback if you have suggestions for improvements. Merry Christmas! |
