Archive for the "html5" category

Web Notifications

February 6, 2010 Web Notifications

Google Chrome has recently updated their stable release with some extra goodies; probably most notable is the inclusion of @font-face support which is very welcome. Another not so well know proposal by the Chromium team is to have web notifications which was shipped with the stable release (v4.0.249.78). Continue reading

 
 

The File API has changed

December 10, 2009 The File API has changed

Recently I have been touting how awesome and revolutionary the File API is through a few demo’s. After some feedback on webapps mailing list there have been some major changes to the API and how it works. Continue reading

 
 

Font Dragr: A drag and drop font tester

October 13, 2009 Font Dragr: A drag and drop font tester

After playing with the new file API draft spec available in Firefox 3.6 with my drag and drop upload article. I had another idea when I was playing with custom fonts, @font-face, in the browser. What if you could drag an drop a font file (otf, ttf, svg, woff) from your desktop into the browser and have text rendered on the fly using any available valid font. Continue reading

 
 

Make IE awesome by turning it into Google Chrome

September 23, 2009 Make IE awesome by turning it into Google Chrome

As I’m sure you all know by now Google made an announcement about their Chrome Frame plugin for IE that turns the Trident rendering engine into the Chrome rendering engine giving IE access to the awesome power that is Chrome. No longer will IE miss out on those awesome new features in CSS3 & HTML5 the more competent browsers enjoy today such as the soon to be released Google Wave. Continue reading

 
 

Drag and drop file uploading using JavaScript

August 26, 2009 Drag and drop file uploading using JavaScript

With the recent announcement of the File API draft specification being published I’m sure a lot of people were confused as to what it could really do and why it is truly a powerful API. Firefox’s latest alpha release of their 3.6 browser, aka Namoroka, is the first to implement this new draft specification. Continue reading

 
 
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