➠ January 13, 2010
Gordon - An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG
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.
➠ December 18, 2009
➠ December 9, 2009
➠ November 17, 2009
dynaTrace AJAX Edition
Really in-depth front-end web performance tool. Like the “Net” tab of Firebug, but more so. Windows and IE (!) only.
➠ November 15, 2009
Learning Advanced JavaScript
Top notch JS ninjary from John Resig. All examples are runnable.
➠ August 26, 2009
Episodes: for timing web pages
Framework for tracking web performance on end-user machines, from Steve Souders, author of “High Performance Web Sites”.
Deep Profiling jQuery Apps
Fell into my lap serendipitously this afternoon, as I was thinking about the very issue of speeding up user-side code.
➠ May 24, 2009
Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation
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
➠ March 18, 2009
➠ February 25, 2009
cufón: fonts for the people
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.
➠ October 29, 2008
JSSpeccy: A ZX Spectrum emulator in Javascript
Officially the best thing in the entire history of the internet today.
➠ October 27, 2008
typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML
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…
➠ October 12, 2008
Antisocial: a Javascript demo
Amazing bit of JavaScript hackery. The demo itself is cute and funny, but make sure to play with the demotool.
➠ October 2, 2008
A Look at the Clickjacking Web Attack and Why You Should Worry - Webmonkey
Good explanation of the newly publicised “clickjacking” browser exploit. Your clicks may not be going where you think they’re going.
➠ July 14, 2008
➠ May 8, 2008
Processing.js
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.
➠ May 6, 2008
➠ February 8, 2008
Sniff browser history for improved user experience
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.
➠ November 6, 2007
GmailGreasemonkey10API - gmail-greasemonkey - Google Code
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.