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JavaScript library to alter the favicon on background browser tabs. Could come in handy for alerts.
Decent tower defense game. Sponsored by Microsoft, works fantastically in Chrome, no plugins required.
Holy crap, this is a cunning hack! Renders (some) SWFs in browser without the Flash plugin, using Canvas and JavaScript. Works (albeit somewhat slowly) on iPhones and iPads. Gonna be interesting to see if Adobe buy this up.
Presentation built using HTML5 to demo new HTML5 features. Runs best in a recent Google Chrome.
Holy shit! SWFs rendered without a plugin. Obviously, this has limited use at the moment, but there’s some great potential for allowing Flash devs to make animations that run on iPhones’ web browsers.
Really in-depth front-end web performance tool. Like the “Net” tab of Firebug, but more so. Windows and IE (!) only.
Top notch JS ninjary from John Resig. All examples are runnable.
Framework for tracking web performance on end-user machines, from Steve Souders, author of “High Performance Web Sites”.
Fell into my lap serendipitously this afternoon, as I was thinking about the very issue of speeding up user-side code.
Mozilla Labs is launching a sort of Greasemonkey++ — in addition to tweaking web pages, you get some limited control over the browser chrome. Will be interesting to watch this grow
Now this is lovely — convert fonts into VML, then seamlessly replace text on webpages. Like sIFR, but without the horrendous hassle of needing to do things with Flash.
Officially the best thing in the entire history of the internet today.
Amazingly clever piece of hackery. Embed fonts seamlessly in your pages in a manner that works with all released major browsers (including iPhone), but degrades gracefully. Need to do some playing with this…
Amazing bit of JavaScript hackery. The demo itself is cute and funny, but make sure to play with the demotool.
Good explanation of the newly publicised “clickjacking” browser exploit. Your clicks may not be going where you think they’re going.
John Resig has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the <canvas> tag. John is officially one of the most scary-smart people I know.
Clever hack — sniff a user’s browser history, work out what blogreading/bookmarking/OpenID sites they use, and reduce clutter by only display options for those sites.
GMail’s new interface exposes an object with the specific intent of making it easier to write less-fragile GreaseMonkey scripts which interact with the application. Nice idea.
Good article on where Joel sees web development going — some kind of higher-level language that compiles down to Javascript, HTML, and whatever else runs in browsers. I think there needs to be “Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.” t-shirts.
UI and effects library from the JQuery team.
Debug JavaScript pages displayed on your iPhone from the comfort of your PC. Clever stuff.
Rails ported to JavaScript running on top of a JVM. My head asplode!
Dashboard widget for the JQuery docs.
Add nice corners and shadows to your images with just a smidge of JavaScript.
Firebug-a-like for IE. If this works as advertised, it could be indispensable for cross-browser Javascriptery.
Holy crap! It’s Zarch of “Just about the only game you can play on your school’s Acorn Archimedes” fame, redone in JavaScript. Now to find “Mad Professor Mariati” and a RISC OS emulator…
Cunning use of Flash and Javascript to enable “special effects” (borders, rotation and shadows) on images in web pages cleanly.
New version of JQuery cleans up the API and reportedly speeds things up.
First stages of the Dojo “offline toolkit”: Mockups imagining how it could be used to make GMail or Blogger usable when you don’t have an active net connection. Looks like it could be a game-changer.
Wonderful! A lightweight implementation of the Firefox-only Firebug javascript debugger which you can embed into your pages for cross-browser debugging.
Wicked-nifty Javascript UI library, generously open-sourced by Yahoo. Using this with Django and Lucene, I was able to knock out a pretty decent AJAXy autocompleting search box within 24 hours of opening my big yap in a meeting and suggesting it as a feature. (The “Design Pattern Library” is also worth a read to anyone who juggles HTML)
IDE built on top of Eclipse (and available as an Eclipse plugin) that aids in the coding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The code-completion tooltips showing you which browsers understand which keywords looks dead handy.
Javascript toolkit. I don’t need all the fancypants “Make text swoop in” stuff, but the DOM querying syntax looks dead handy.
Rather intriguing — An attractive UI for bookmarklets.
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