Wednesday, March 10th

HTML Minification

Good old Kangax has been playing with HTML minification and has shared his new tool in an early stage.

What does it do? Kangax has forked John Resig’s HTML parser which parses the HTML and sends that into the Minifier. This has rules that do things like whitespace optimization, comment removal, and collapsing boolean attributes (e.g. disabled=”true” [...]

Posted By: Ajaxian on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 11:14:51. View the original post.

Harmony: Canvas Drawing Tool

Harmony is a new drawing tool, a HTML5/Canvas experiment with great potential. It provides some unique brush styles, and can produce some great-looking charcoal pencil style sketches, among other things. Better to try it out than explain it in words. Creator Mr. Doob (Richard Cabello) explains how he used Canvas to make it darker the [...]

Posted By: Ajaxian on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 09:50:44. View the original post.

Tuesday, March 9th

YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Crockford on JavaScript — Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax” (93 min.)

Last week, Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford delivered the fourth installment of his Crockford on JavaScript series:

Volume One: The Early Years Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript Act III: Function the Ultimate Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax Part V: The End of All Things (March 31 — RSVP)

In this session, Douglas tackles the DOM. On the [...]

Posted By: YUI Blog on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 20:40:38. View the original post.

Spectrum Visualization with the HTML5 Audio Data API

The HTML5 specification introduces the and media elements, and with them the opportunity to dramatically change the way we integrate media on the web. The current HTML5 media API provides ways to play and get limited information about audio and video, but gives no way to programatically access or create such media. We [...]

Posted By: Ajaxian on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 11:20:07. View the original post.

Monday, March 8th

modulr: a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScript

modulr is a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScript

Ruby? what does that have anything to do with it? Ah, its from one of those Prototype guys isn't it.... Yup, Tobie is at it again, this time with modulr:

modulr accepts a singular file as input (the program) on which is does static analysis to [...]

Posted By: Ajaxian on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 11:28:40. View the original post.

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