Binary Data and JavaScript

It’s probably some sort of sign of a new phase in the JavaScript life cycle – dealing with binary data. For the longest time there wasn’t much of a reason to worry about binary files – JavaScript was near exclusively used for text operations and simple number crunching. A multidimensional array maybe. Some objects and [...]

The Bleeding Edge

My Spectrum Visualizer has made quite some waves across the blogosphere and it’s been a lot of fun to check out the considerable traffic to the Stories In Flight server. Of all the writeups I’ve found, here is the one I’ll use for my resume: OK this must be the bleedingest-edge project I’ve seen in [...]

HTML5 Getting Closer

The HTML Working Group at the W3C has published a full set of Working Drafts for the specification of HTML5. This is another important step to move HTML5 and its associated technologies closer to become an “official” standard and will certainly speed up the implementation of many of these features in modern browsers. Here are [...]

When Hover Becomes a Drag

Over at Roughly Drafted is a very interesting article about the UI issues of having Flash on a touch screen device. I pretty much slapped my forehead when I read this, since it is actually very obvious once you think about it, but most of us haven’t had a chance yet to experience Flash on [...]

The Other Ruby

The number of changes to HTML and CSS that are now showing up in browser rendering engines as part of the general push towards HTML5 are quite astonishing. If you are a web developer and you are not spending all your time right now learning new technologies, then you are probably doing something wrong. Among [...]

The Web We Should Have

The Web as we know it is based for the most part on ten year old technology. There are many features that web designers have been craving for since the early 2000s that have been stuck in standardization limbo for many years and still now, in 2010, the web community has to support ancient browsers [...]

TwitterFlickrHaiku

#haiku is a new little experiment for my Stories In Flight site – a mashup of Twitter and Flickr: The page searches for tweets with the #haiku hashtag and then visualizes the results by searching for each word in Flickr photos. It’s a evolutionary step from FlickrPoet, and while it removes the interactivity, it certainly [...]