Archive for the "javascript" 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

 
 

Accessing the GPS in iPhone Safari

July 8, 2009 Accessing the GPS in iPhone Safari

Finally with the release of the 3.0 firmware update to the iPhone we now have access to the GPS coordinates in Safari. Using the W3C Geolocation API we can access the users position much the same way a native app would. The user can either allow or disallow the current websites’ access to your location. Continue reading

 
 

How to create offline webapps on the iPhone

April 28, 2009 How to create offline webapps on the iPhone

Recently Google launched their latest mobile version of Gmail optimised for iPhone and Android based browsers. One of the features that stood out was the offline access thanks to the browsers support of html5 application cache. Continue reading

 
 

5 clever uses of the canvas tag

February 25, 2009 5 clever uses of the canvas tag

If there is one thing that really gets me exciting about the upcoming HTML 5 specification it’s the canvas tag. This relatively simple tag holds so much potential and power thanks to the strong well thought out JavaScript API available to manipulate what appears on the canvas.
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iPhone bookmarklet, for saving bookmarklets

February 14, 2009 iPhone bookmarklet, for saving bookmarklets

Have you ever found a useful bookmarklet while browsing on your iPhone only to discover that you can’t actually save it directly from the phone. Frustrating I know, so much so that I decided to make my own bookmarklet that lets you save it on your phone. Let’s delve right in and take a look at the JavaScript involved.
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