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| 09-25-10 / 05:10 PM : Cloud9 IDE : JS online editor (cjed) |
| Cloud9 IDE is an open source on-browser JS editor, that also allows starting server applications based on NodeJS. It however for now lacks a visual layout plugin for various JS frameworks (ExtJS, Cappuccino), and the debugger seems requiring Chrome. |
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| 09-25-10 / 02:55 PM : Proposal for equity / search engines (cjed) |
| As ideas (or promoting of something, like music) is now more and more likely to be received through web channels (web biggest companies are willing to get rid of regular TV, radio and now Press), search engines ranking algorithms will have too much impact on basic (fundamentals) rights. That is we should ensure independant/reliable control of these. One solution would be that such algorithms (the ones from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.) be provided to a central/regulated worldwide entity (where they may also be validated). Browsers would then allow to enter this central site address (through their general settings), and when searching for something on regular Google, Yahoo, etc. sites, the updated browsers would automatically send an additional request to the central site system (that would choose its corresponding validated engine to make the same search), and alert if returned results differ too much. Then it would prevent suspect filtering from both sides (considering both side don't make agreements...) ! |
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| 09-22-10 / 10:29 PM : HTML Device : audio&video streams (cjed) |
| A draft about the new HTML Device extension is available. This new tag allows to stream audio and video from/to an external device (camcorder, etc.). |
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| 09-20-10 / 10:14 PM : Dailymotion HTML5 player (cjed) |
| Dailymotion presents its HTML5 based player. |
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| 09-16-10 / 10:39 PM : Web Graphics : history/performance (cjed) |
| This article provides a brief history of the revolution brought by Webkit in web graphics. There is to note that CSS transforms and transitions, that appeared in WebKit in 2007, only supported GPU accelerating in the iPhone WebKit version (through Core Animation). Google developed its own compositing engine for Chrome, Skia, inspired from OSX's CoreGraphics, for Canvas 2D implementation under Windows and Linux (on OSX Google logically uses CoreGraphics). These two implementations do not manage yet GPU accelerating (Google would have to use CoreGraphics's CGLayer on OSX for that), however Canvas 2D performance on Chrome under OSX is still ways behind Windows and Linux versions (that isn't the case for CSS transitions/animations, based on CoreAnimation's CALayer - and then the GPU). Quartz has been using GPU accelerating for windows moving since first version of OSX, however content redraw (areas selection) was never optimized (for example text reflow when resizing a window) and is still mainly software based. QuartzGL (that was released in Leopard and that was initially available under Tiger under Quartz Extreme name) was intended to solve this problem, however it is still disabled by default (could lead to visual artifacts, and Apple is still working on resolution independance, that is tied). |
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| 09-15-10 / 11:15 PM : WebGL demos (cjed) |
| Google provides demos of WebGL. The nightly builds of WebKit also can read these (enter defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitWebGLEnabled -bool YES in the terminal before launching the application). |
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| 09-15-10 / 11:08 PM : Flash Square : 64 bits plugin (cjed) |
| Adobe provides Flash Square Preview, a 64 bits version of the plugin (Safari launches in 64 bits mode under Snow Leopard, and then uses a 32 bits wrapper for the regular Flash plugin - that isn't 64 bits -, leading to limited performance). |
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| 09-13-10 / 11:11 PM : MacOSX Public Beta : 10 years (cjed) |
| MacOSX Public Beta, a true revolution that recent switchers weren't aware of (and that can explain their lack of understanding of the layers that make MacOSX, and their wrong use of the system due to previous Windows experience), was launched 10 years ago at Paris's Apple Expo (Steve Jobs's keynote at Palais des Congrès - I was there -, and availability for purchase at Apple Expo / Parc des expositions following the presentation). Macworld speaks about their feelings at that time, and we can also watch the videos here. The provided documentation with Developer Tools presented the system layers (MACH task, then wrapped by a BSD one, and then by a Carbon one), Quartz engine, revolutionnary IOKit, and later (2001) CoreAudio. |
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| 09-13-10 / 10:42 PM : Adobe CS5 HTML5 pack (cjed) |
| Adobe provides CS5 HTML5 pack for Illustrator, that allows exporting to SVG or Canvas, at various resolutions (detection through CSS3 media queries). The transition to HTML5 is then confirmed, and Flash as a plugin could disapear soon, leaving place for an HTML5 based core. We have yet to see what visual editor Apple will unveil for iAd JS. |
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| 09-08-10 / 11:41 PM : iOS 4.1 available (cjed) |
| Apple released at iTunes iOS 4.1 update, that brings, among GameCenter and HDR photos (iPhone 4), better performance on iPhone 3G. |
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