I’ve been playing with this technology lately and I have to say: WebGL is hot stuff. Through the HTML5 <canvas> element you can add hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to web pages. There’s no need to install a separate plug-in. It isn’t available in current browser versions however. You’ll need to install nightly builds of Firefox, Chrome [...]
Flash offers a lot of cool features to play with. The last few years we’ve seen an abundance of 3D engines which have all been optimised to run on a very limited platform. The results are very impressive and have spawned many ground breaking and visually stunning online experiences.
Despite all this many developers are frustrated [...]
There’s an interesting article about 3DMLW in the latest issue of BlenderArt magazine. 3DMLW is an Open Source platform for creating 3D and 2D interactive web content. In their own words:
“3DMLW is a Open Source technology for creating and displaying 3D and 2D content on the web through common web-browsers. This technology includes four parts:
3DMLW markup [...]
A while ago I made a very simple Collada parser that was written in JavaScript and drew on a HTML 5 <canvas>.
Silverlight 1.0 also makes use of JavaScript so converting it seemed like a good excercise. You can see it here. Fortunately I didn’t have to change much. Only the way in which the lines [...]
I’ve finally set myself to doing something with Microsoft’s Silverlight. After reading some of the basic stuff I have to say it looks promising. I can’t wait for C# support though, JavaScript is making my life miserable again :P.
I’ve taken a code sample (written in BASIC) from and old book and converted it to JavaScript. [...]
A few weeks ago there was a “Fronteers” (the Dutch guild of front-end developers) meeting at our office in Utrecht. I was asked to give a talk about something interesting related to front-end web development. Quite a lot has been said and written about standards, accessibility, etc. so I had to come up with something [...]
I was working on a very frustrating issue that occurs in IE when the caching settings are set to “every visit to the page”. On slower servers, the background images were reloaded on a mouseover. While reloading the images dissappeared. One simple line of JavaScript will solve this issue:
document.execCommand(”BackgroundImageCache”, false, true);
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I just found this excellent PDF about JavaScript 2.0. Some nice stuff in there. Too bad that Internet Explorer 7 uses none of these new features!
With the emergence of the AJAX-hype, and the code chaos that comes with it, there has been an increased interest in the structuring of JavaScript code. Very good concepts have been devised that take JavaScript a level further. To begin structuring your JavaScript code, the use of packages/namespaces is valuable start. JavaScript 1.3 doesn’t support [...]
A while ago I wrote an article about Inline SVG for the Dutch web magazine Naar Voren!. It showcases how to embed SVG objects into XHTML pages and how to make them work for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. When I find the time I’ll translate it into English and put it here on the [...]
