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D3.js is a complex JavaScript library for graphically rendering large or small data structures with the aid of SVG, HTML (5) and CSS (3). It's extremely fast, working with huge data sets and adding interactivity controls at the same time. D3.js works by binding data series to DOM components, manipulating their... |
18 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has kicked off yet another project aimed at bringing to the spotlight the capabilities of their browser. Partnering with Fox Studios, the team has launched the initiative as the Project Prometheus Training Center, which was designed entirely using HTML5. Based on the hypot... |
17 May 2012
11:39 GMT |
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It looks like Maxthon development team held to their promise and delivered a new beta build for the web browser today. One of the most important features in this new release is optimized support for HTML5. As such, Maxthon 3.3.9.600 beta now supports HTML5 Microdata and shows an increased score as far as HTML5 suppo... |
17 May 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Mozilla is rather serious about web apps and it's been working on making its own platform a reality. The Mozilla Marketplace will soon go live for users and Mozilla is highlighting one of the potential uses of the app store and the web platform itself, describing how web apps can be "installed" locally, on Windo... |
15 May 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Native browser gaming is evolving at a fast pace. HTML5 Canvas, the Audio API, WebGL and everything in between are becoming powerful tools capable of running full-blown games inside a browser. We're not quite there yet, but we're getting closer.
Bethesda has ported the original Wolfenstein 3D to the web in... |
10 May 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Gaming today is a multi-billion dollar industry, growing each year. First person shooters are among the top sellers, since they appeal to a large audience, but the high-tech graphics powerhouses of today can all trace their origins to one comparatively simpler game, Wolfenstein 3D, the game that "invented" first pers... |
9 May 2012
14:51 GMT |
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SoundCloud is almost ready to unleash a completely new version of the site, which it very originally named Next SoundCloud. The new site is in private beta, but you can request an invite. It's a complete revamp and there's plenty to like. One very nice feature is a new persistent player which enables you to... |
9 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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pdf.js is a simple JavaScript library for viewing PDF files without the help of special browser plugins.
Developed by Mozilla's Andreas Gal, pdf.js works with all ISO 32000-1:2008 Portable Document Format (PDF) standard files.
Using some HTML 5 and SVG magic, the library opens the PDF file and outputs the cont... |
3 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Webmasters can feel safe their forms are user friendly when using Sisyphus.js. This jQuery plugin takes advantage of the localStorage system implemented with HTML 5 in most major browsers. The plugin automatically saves form data to localStorage as soon as the visitor enters it in a field. This ensures that if any n... |
1 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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The G5 Framework is a front-end framework for quickly deploying a basic website front-end, on which to add content and modify along the way. G5's main role is to speed up development, to reduce time with repetitive tasks by providing a batch of top-of-the-line tools out of the box. Whoever created more than 2-3... |
27 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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canvasXpress is one of the new breed of development tools that saw greater adoption, as HTML 5 support expanded in more and more browsers. The library allows developers to create interactive graphs and charts that rely on the power of HTML 5's canvas utility. CanvasXpress supports classic chart types like lines... |
25 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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YouTube has been offering an HTML5 player for years now. But it's never been on par with the regular Flash player. Still, YouTube is working on improving it, the player recently got the thumbnail preview feature that has been rolled out across YouTube.
If you join the HTML5 test or simply disable the Flash plug... |
20 April 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Developers looking to leverage the latest web technologies in Safari are encouraged to download version 5.2 Update 3 from the Mac Dev Center, Apple has announced. Safari 5.2 Update 3 brings Web Audio API, a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web apps. Apple explains that “While... |
19 April 2012
06:31 GMT |
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It seems that Chrome is making progress with HTML5 input types lately. It recently added support for the "color" input, which enables users to visually pick a color rather than write a HTML color code, and has now added support for the "date" input field which, well, enables users to pick a date via a calendar rather... |
17 April 2012
14:21 GMT |
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WebRTC, the real-time communications API for the web, is evolving rapidly. It was only introduced last year, but there's already support for it in Chrome and Mozilla is working on adding support in Firefox as well.
The team behind the WebRTC API believes that the main components are now stable enough for regula... |
11 April 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Paper.js is an open source JavaScript vector graphics scripting framework. It allows developers to script animations in JavaScript and have them played out via the HTML 5 canvas utility.
The framework supports mouse and keyboard interaction, vector geometry, images, color averaging, symbols, paths, segments, selecti... |
11 April 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Dropbox recently debuted a greatly revamped website. The new site is cleaner, simpler to use, but also more powerful. It's more like an app than a website and makes file management a simpler task than it has ever been online.
Now, Dropbox is making another interesting addition, support for drag and drop. Simply... |
6 April 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Google Chrome 18 has been pushed to the stable channel bringing with it two big new features, both related to graphics. On the one hand, HTML5 Canvas content is going to be hardware accelerated. On the other, it is now possible to run WebGL content without hardware acceleration.
"We’ve enabled GPU-accelerated ... |
29 March 2012
05:50 GMT |
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Just as Adobe bets that developers will pay to be able to deploy powerful games on the web, Mozilla is showing that you don't have to. In fact, you don't even need to use a plugin, the web can handle it all.
Mozilla is showcasing one of its latest projects, an MMORPG built entirely with native web technolo... |
28 March 2012
08:20 GMT |
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Opera may have seemed distracted with the release of Opera 11.60 and the subsequent minor updates, Opera 11.62 is just around the corner, but it's been working on the grand Opera 12 all the while.
It's ready to unveil some of the progress being made on Opera 12, which promises to be a major release. What&#... |
26 March 2012
12:31 GMT |
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This jQuery plugin creates true fullscreen image slideshows. By true fullscreen we are referring to the entire area of the screen, not just the viewport, which was first supported by the HTML 5 API.For non compatible or really old browsers, when starting the slideshow, the image will be shown on the entire area of th... |
26 March 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Wix.com, which built a rather successful business helping inexperienced users create Flash-based sites, has come up with an alternative product that leverages HTML5, future-proofing any site created with it and also ensuring that it works on all tablets and mobile devices.
The momentum against Flash is building up, ... |
26 March 2012
10:06 GMT |
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Almost a year ago, a team from Mozilla started working on a pure JavaScript PDF renderer. The idea was to be able to view PDF files found online in the browser without relying on a third-party plugin. It started out as an extension, but now comes built into Firefox in the nightly builds.
The need for a "native" PDF ... |
26 March 2012
04:14 GMT |
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MediaElement.js is a library for creating audio and video players that work with the new HTML 5 audio and video tags.
The library is different from all other similar tools because it does not create HTML5 audio/video players and then offers a Flash fallback for older browsers.
MediaElement.js uses a totally new con... |
24 March 2012
13:01 GMT |
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To celebrate the debut of The Hunger Games movie, Microsoft and Lionsgate came up with a special website that enables fans to access new, exclusive content straight from their home computers. The website, called The Capitol Tour, is accessible at http://thecapitoltour.pn, and offers a variety of elements that will... |
21 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Google I/O 2012 is coming and if last year is any indication, it's going to be a very interesting event. Developers are clamoring to get there, tickets sold out in less than an hour last year and may do the same next week when they go on sale.With less than a week until tickets become available, the Google I/O s... |
21 March 2012
14:51 GMT |
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To celebrate the launch of “Hunger Games” movie, Microsoft and Lionsgate have partnered to bring a piece of the story to the smaller screens of desktop computers.
Millions of readers of Suzanne Collins’ novel series The Hunger Games are eagerly waiting for the movie to hit theaters on March 23rd.... |
21 March 2012
08:30 GMT |
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It's official, Mozilla will start supporting the proprietary H.264 video codec at first on mobile devices that come with hardware decoding and encoding for the format. Moving forward, solutions will be drawn for the desktop version of Firefox as well, though the avenue for doing this hasn't been chosen yet.... |
19 March 2012
11:12 GMT |
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KinectJS is a JavaScript library for supporting motion gestures in HTML5. The motion gestures are acquired from a Kinect device via a custom built Adobe Air app. For now KinectJS support is limited to Google Chrome 15+ and Firefox 10+, but as more browsers implement the needed HTML5 features, they'll be able to... |
15 March 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Nokia’s renowned Maps service is available for the owners of Android and iOS devices as well, courtesy of an HTML5 flavor that Nokia made available for them last year.
Until then, Nokia Maps was available exclusively on handsets running under the Symbian platform. Today, it is also loaded on Windows Phone de... |
13 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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The web is becoming increasingly powerful, as a platform, the things being built into HTML5, things like WebGL, audio APIs, real-time communication APIs, gamepad APIs, camera APIs and so on, make the web almost as powerful as any native platform. Granted, there is still work to be done and some things are still exper... |
13 March 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Projekktor Zwei is a very customizable JavaScript library for building HTML5-based video players.Flash players are slowly disappearing from the Web, and scripts like Projekktor Zwei are helping drive the final nail in their coffin.Projekktor Zwei flaunts a wide range of features that might make even some Flash ... |
11 March 2012
11:01 GMT |
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The Game Developers Conference is under way in San Francisco, so it's no wonder that plenty of companies are making announcements around this time. But among the usual players, you'll find some new ones as well, notably Google and Facebook.
Google has been pushing for gaming quite a lot recently, no wonder... |
6 March 2012
05:56 GMT |
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Mozilla's drive to build a device and platform agnostic market place for apps is taking shape. It's been working on it for a while and has now announced that it is taking app submissions for the Mozilla Marketplace which is slated to go live sometime later this year.
For now, developers can secure their sp... |
29 February 2012
04:43 GMT |
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Blogger is continuing to evolve the Dynamic Views it introduced last year, a set of modern layouts and themes for the site. One of the big things missing, so far, has been gadget support. That's no longer the case as the latest update to Dynamic Views enables users to customize their blog with some of the gadget... |
28 February 2012
11:21 GMT |
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On Monday, at this year’s Mobile World Congress, Opera announced the release of the final flavor of its Opera Mobile 12 browser for Android and Symbian devices. As you can see in the video embedded above, we had the chance to have a look at the browser in Barcelona, where Opera showcased it on Android 4.0-bas... |
28 February 2012
10:47 GMT |
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HTML5, CSS3, WebGL and so on have the ability to greatly transform the web. But that's no use if no one knows how to use them and what they're capable of. Educating developers is as important as building browser support.
And since developers are flesh and blood just like the rest of us, most of them anywa... |
16 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Before the end of this month, a new flavor of Internet Explorer 10 should arrive included in the upcoming Windows 8 Consumer Preview that Microsoft is preparing for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Before that, however, those who chose to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on their computers can get the br... |
15 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Grooveshark, one of the most popular music sites out there, is now available on Windows Phones as well, courtesy of the recently launched HTML5-enabled mobile version. Owners of a Windows Phone-powered handset can now head over to the beta version of the mobile site right through the Internet Explorer browser to b... |
14 February 2012
15:21 GMT |
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One of the great features the Microsoft decided to include inside Windows 8 was the ability of Metro Applications to take advantage of the performance of Internet Explorer 10 when displaying web content.
Microsoft explains that web content will always be JIT compiled and hardware-accelerated when it comes to Metro... |
8 February 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Google Chrome for Android may differ a lot from the desktop version, but it's got enough in common to warrant the name. Chrome for Android is a big upgrade over the regular Android browser and it's not all in how it looks.
Under the hood, Chrome for Android has plenty to show for itself. The browser is sti... |
8 February 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Angry Birds for Chrome is quickly becoming a showcase of the latest and greatest web technology. It uses HTML5 and WebGL for the graphics part. Browsers that support WebGL and have the proper drivers installed get the full hardware accelerated experience. Otherwise, HTML5 Canvas is used.
Angry Birds has now introduc... |
1 February 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Bing is running a really cool background in the US at the moment. The Microsoft-owned search engine is showing a video of an Aurora Borealis in full splendor. It's a short video, but it's rather catchy. Aurora Borealis is a fascinating phenomenon, both in its beauty but also in the science behind it. The ... |
31 January 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Firefox 10 is about to land. One of the new features that Mozilla is boasting about is support for the Fullscreen API, part of the HTML5 standard. At this point, Firefox, Chrome and Safari all support the feature, meaning that developers can start leveraging it in their web apps.
"One thing which has been very impor... |
31 January 2012
08:03 GMT |
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The official Wikipedia Android app debuted in the Android Market a couple of weeks ago, but Wikipedia only got around to making the official announcement. Along with the announcement though, it also revealed some initial stats and how it built the app in the first place.
"We’ve seen an amazing reaction from ou... |
27 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Google is working on making it easier to auto-complete forms found online. Like several other major browsers, Chrome comes with a rather thorough autofill feature. It remembers data you provide to one website, when signing up for example, so it can automatically fill the same fields on other sites.
If it works, it&#... |
26 January 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Zepto Labs, the developer behind the massive successful Cut the Rope for the iOS, has just released a version of the game that’s fully playable through a web browser like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox.
Cut the Rope has delighted tens of millions of iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch users from a... |
16 January 2012
05:15 GMT |
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Grooveshark is not in the best shape it's ever been. It's being sued by all four major music labels and it's been booted out of all the mobile marketplaces. But it's not giving up, having no way of getting into the iTunes App Store or the Android Market, Grooveshark went the other route and debute... |
14 January 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is truly a modern browser, and the Redmond-based software giant is keen on letting us know this. During its keynote at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company has unveiled that a new game is available for IE9 users, namely 'Cut the... |
10 January 2012
08:25 GMT |
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