Let's Build the Web We Want
I just got word that my presentation was accepted. I’ll be presenting alongside people who are really super smart. I’m hoping to not embarrass myself. I promise I won’t pick a fight with Douglas Crockford just as a goof. Here’s the pitch for my talk: We’re awash in data. Making sense of that flood of […]
SVG has had a long and strange journey to the world of ‘emerging technologies” SVG was actually defined in 1999, so it’s not exactly the new kid on the block. Still, it took a while to catch on, so in some ways it feels like the new kid on the block. Like Canvas, SVG allows […]
The canvas element and associated API started life as an Apple extension to HTML. From there it blossomed into one of the early stars of the HTML5 era. The canvas element provides a scriptable interface for drawing two-dimensional images in the browser. Even without full browser support on the desktop, developers have embraced canvas fully. […]
The new history API helps to solve one of the most troubling usability issues with Ajax application development (and Flash before it.) By default, if you use the back button on a single page app, you navigate away from the page in question. The expected behavior is to travel back to the previous state of […]
Strangely I posted some book updates last week and forgot to mention that Professional jQuery has been out for a couple of weeks now.. I haven’t seen it yet, but I like to know that it’s out there. Looking back on my work, I think it’s actually pretty good. Normally my own writing makes me […]