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Dmitry Baranovskiy and team have released another version of Raphaël, an excellent drawing and animation library backed by SVG (VML on Internet Explorer). New features in Raphaël 1.5 include custom attributes and keyframes. Keyframes can be defined similar to CSS3 Animations:
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The SVG Web team has announced a new release. SVG Web is a drop in JavaScript library that makes it easy to display SVG graphics on Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 using Flash.
The new SVG Web release, like all of their releases, is named after especially silly D&D monsters. The new release is …
keywords flash web, front page, internet explorer, monsters, new release, svg, using flash
Perfect for a Monday is a cool 3D model editor built using the Canvas tag and created by Jayesh Salvi:
keywords 3d, 3d model, canvas, cool 3d, front page, tag
keywords canvas, front page, tutorial, view source
I stumbled across http://webkit.org/specs recently, which is basically a nifty listing of all custom extensions Apple/Webkit has made to web specs, written up as specs themselves so that other browsers can implement them:
Squirrelfish Bytecode
Timed Media Elements
CSS Effects
Extensions to CSS …
keywords apple, custom extensions, front page, media elements, pointer, webkit
TechCrunch reports on a Googler, Paul Truong, who created an HTML5-based game for Gmail called Galactic Inbox using his 20% time:
When you start it up, a little Gmail logo envelope guy pops out of a “20% Projects Lab” and starts flying. Essentially, he’s a spaceship and can shoot objects coming …
keywords front page, fun, game, games, gmail, google, inbox, spaceship
Ryan Seddon, aka the CSS Ninja, has a nice blog post up where he reverse engineers the new feature in Gmail where you can drag attachments from an email on to your desktop.
Note that the feature only currently works in Chrome.
Ryan begins with the following code:
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JAVASCRIPT:
var …
keywords attachments, email, front page, gmail, google, javascript, javascript document, new feature, ninja, text javascript
(Various Shivs)
Via JD Bartlett comes HTML5 innerShiv for IE. Before innerShiv, the following would not work in IE:
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HTML:
var s = document.createElement('div');
s.innerHTML = "<section>Hi!</section>";
document.body.appendChild(s);
For example, let's …
keywords ccc, div, elements, front page, ie, innerhtml, jd, library, padding, text html
Last week Adobe announced they are jumping into the Web Fonts game in a partnership with Typekit:
For this debut of Adobe Web Fonts, I think we’ve made some great choices. Everyone knows Myriad and Minion — pervasive workhorse sans serif and serif typefaces, respectively, which will prove to be …
keywords adobe, adobe web, choices, css, debut, font, front page, game, partnership, sans serif, web fonts, workhorse
From Hakim El Hattab (who has some very nifty HTML5 experiments up) comes some nice tips on using the Canvas tag:
Cross browser implementation
There are no real discrepancies between the canvas outputs of different browsers so long as the JavaScript code is written correctly (if not, browsers …
keywords canvas, cross browser, discrepancies, front page, implementation, javascript code, real world, tag
