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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

Browser Pong

Play Pong with browser windows. Neat hack.

December 9, 2009

Another World JS

Olde Amiga-era tough-as-balls platformer, implemented in JavaScript with canvas.

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

Browser Ball

Mindblowing JavaScript demo. Send a bouncing ball between browser windows.

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

jgrowl

JavaScript growl-like popup messages for webpages.

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

Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery

Some great tips from Simon Willison on using JQuery effectively.

vi in JavaScript

Just what the internet needed… a vi clone implemented in JavaScript.

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.

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