It's all about GAMES. - You've come here an untold number of time(s).
Russell gets all excited about a new Yahoo feature that allows you to get alerts for ANY RSS feed out there, as soon as it updates. And you can get it for free on your mobile device as well. It's almost like broadcasting. Coolness.
I took a few minutes and coded up a very simple starfield - stealing some star generating code from the MDC tutorial and testing out using one [canvas] element as the source for another [canvas] element. Imagine generating textures and things via hidden canvases, then using them dynamically in other canvases... The mind boggles.
Snazzy - I get mentioned on Scripting News:
Brian Reiger riffs a bit about a new meme starting to spread across the net called the "lightnet" -- which of course is the antithesis of "darknet". Lightnet is open, often free, and grows the more you use/remix/spread it.
This is an interesting prototype of a way to present interfaces using JSON as the means of transmission. Very cool!
The evolution of canvas is starting. We are at the paramecium level now -- beyond just drawing random squares on the screen. I cant wait until fully fleshed out, sophisticated apps are built with some canvas support. Meanwhile, folks are starting to create interesting things, and clocks seem to be what many folks gravitate to.
A friend here at work sent me this link which is to a new Firefox 1.5 extension. This extension lets you view all of your tabs at once in one window like OSX 's expose. Very cool!
From the Canvas-Developers mailing list comes a new canvas link. Basically, it's a simple paint tool but it shows off just how versatile canvas can be in that not only is the paintable area a canvas, but the color picker and line size chooser are as well.
Looks like Firefox 1.5 will be out on Tuesday sometime. The world's greatest browser is about to become even better. Get it while its hot.
Ok this _is_ using javascript, but not the canvas tag. Instead we find an amazingly innovative javascript demo for Assembly '05 done completely in javascript. I cant wait to see what folks do who have been doing things like this, when they discover canvas...
This test tries out the translation, rotation, and scale functionality of CANVAS. I present to you the next silly canvas demo - spinning bouncing firefox!
The soon to be famous CanvasScape demo which is an early demo of what a First Person Shooter might be like using the CANVAS tag has posted an alternative version with textures.
I found this on Oreilly Radar - it's a nice beginners tutorial on using the Ruby programming language. I'm a big Javascript fan myself, but Ruby's got some great features also.
Ready to take that idea to the next level? Ready to get tons of email about why your idea is silly? Ready to create some snazzy rounded corners, invite only, web 2.0 startup? Check out this list of rules to help you along the way.
Every day a new canvas test... hopefully. Today I go from random pixels to random lines. Whooo.
It may not be under the Christmas tree this year, but if you have kids that like Legos, you'll probably be hearing more about this new line of toys from Lego. Perhaps its more like Gundam meets the Brickster?
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