It's all about GAMES. - You've come here an untold number of time(s).
It's not complete yet, but this canvas based "shooter" looks very promising! I love the fact that you have a map view and a first person view simultaneously. I foresee a new genre of retro and casual games springing up based on canvas.
Creative name, huh? Well back in 1999 I had the idea to create a mailing list for SVG developers, and it is still pretty popular after all these years. If you are someone who's starting to play with Firefox's new Canvas tag (or Opera 9, or Safari, or even Flash - emulators) then you should sign up and chat with others who share your passion for canvasing.
This site waxes optimistic about there being a way for canvas to get implemented in IE using an activeX interface. This seems kinda interesting, especially if someone wrote a wrapper function that could convert canvas calls into IE understandable ones.
This microformat talks about updating a page directly using xmlhttprequest to update specific dom elements. Cool idea - I had a very similar idea a few years back -- we called it "inner browsing"
I'm starting to try out various things in Firefox's Canvas. First off - random pixels!
I've been waiting for a long time for a site that can help you get your creative juices flowing in writing a short story or novel. Something beyond just an empty textfield and some forum links. It looks like the site Glypho is taking a step in the right direction there. The basic idea is this. You create a synopsis of a story. If anyone finds it interesting (including yourself) they can suggest characters, plotlines, even submit chapters for inclusion into the story. It's basically collaborative storytelling with some interesting twists. Since I deal with "social" sites all day long, I've already got a laundry list of ideas to send their way, but even in the state it is now - its way more interesting than most other "fan fiction" sites I've seen. It even has an integrated dictionary and thesaurus you can refer to while composing your chapters/synopses. If you enjoy interactive fiction, storytelling, or just looking to try your hand at writing a chapter or two, you should check it out.
Hard core number crunching here - generate high resulution fractals via javascript and Canvas. Canvas rocks!
Imagine combining the powers of podcasting and geocaching. Wonder Twin powers activate! One of the interesting ideas is podcaches -- audio hints for geocaches.
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I dont have many reasons to fire up IE much anymore - but I broke out the old IE and checked out this demo. It's pretty cool! I challenge all readers to try to do something similar in FireFox's new Canvas.
It's hard to say whether this is a hoax or not, but it's a seriously cool video anyway. Someone with a great stereo system and christmas lights created a video up there with LightSaber Boy and Numa Numa.
This may be something very obscure for you, given that it's specific for Firefox, and seemingly specific for just the folks who are using RC3. But experimenting with Canvas and Data urls has led me to the discovery that you can use data: urls and img sources in your canvas images. A huge - simply huge - development! This means you can completely encapsulate all of your images, animation, communication, etc. in a single document!
Combine the news from 3 of your favorite sources, remove the dupes, and then sprinkle in some of your own news and you get DiggDot.Us.
Microsoft takes RSS and makes it bidirectional - still mulling the implications.
Found this on digg.com. Looks like they are going after Visual Studio. Ironic that the preview movie is in flash :)
This is a very informative article about how you might save your pagestate in an ajax application across pageloads.
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