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, 03 Jan 2007Reviving the Lightweight Visual Thesaurus I've brought my Lightweight Visual Thesaurus back to life. I'm hoping to make some improvements to it this year, like supporting more browsers than just Firefox.[/projects/lvt] permanent link Sat, 14 Jan 2006Lightweight Visual Thesaurus v0.2 I joined the canvas-developers Yahoo! group a couple weeks ago. On Thursday, Benjamin Joffe posted an example of writing text to the canvas element. This had been my biggest frustration with canvas up to now, but Benjamin blew that problem away. I plugged hisCanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.drawString function into The Lightweight Visual Thesaurus this morning, and bam! v0.2 was born.
[/projects/lvt] permanent link Wed, 19 Oct 2005Update: I decided to give the Lightweight Visual Thesaurus its own website and a slight makeover. Download Firefox 1.5 and visit awordlike.com to see the latest. My book writing and blogging have been neglected during the last few weeks. I picked up the golden hammer called Ajax and I've been hunting for golden nails. A few weeks ago I decided that it should be possible to clone the Visual Thesaurus using Ajax, the <canvas> element in Firefox 1.5+ and a server-side call to a WordNet database. Here is my proof of concept. I'm not proud of any of the code involved, and I'm disappointed that I couldn't get the words to show up yet (resorting to mouseover for now), but I am excited by what <canvas> and Ajax can accomplish together. |
