Blake 512 in Javascript
Mark Rhodes, February 29th, 2012
This post describes an implementation of the Blake 512 hashing algorithm in JavaScript. This algorithm is one of the finalists for the SHA-3 competition due to be completed in the next month or so. The source code for the implementation is available here: blake512.js You can try it yourself by putting in a string to [...]
Ext JS 4 Stock Charts
Mark Rhodes, December 1st, 2011
I’ve been working with Ext JS 4′s pure Javascript charting package for a while now and due to the lack of decent real-world examples (i.e. those that don’t just use almost all default settings) and a few undue omissions in the documentation, it’s not always been plain sailing. In an attempt to rectify this situation, [...]
Movember Themed Bookmarklet
Chris Price, November 24th, 2011
I recently came across the mustachify.me service. Inspired by Movember, I just had to spread the mo-ssage. One bookmarklet later, I can now man-up any page* I deem appropriate. I’ve picked some likely stooges from Scott Logic for you to test the link out on. Admire them first with their frankly boyish faces, before clicking [...]
Full Frontal Conference 2011
Chris Price, November 15th, 2011
Last Friday I headed down to Brighton for the annual Full Frontal conference. It was my first time there and I’m very glad I made the trip. The quality and breadth of the talks given far exceeded my expectations. Thanks to Remy Sharp for his organisational and timekeeping skills, and everyone else who made the [...]
Property Finder – the first HTML5-based Windows Phone 7 Application
Colin Eberhardt, November 7th, 2011
Last week I submitted Property Finder, a simple application that searches for properties based in the UK, to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. I was happy to receive confirmation that this application had been certified and published just two days later. You can download the application from the marketplace now. You can also watch a [...]
Dart – will Google make HTML5 applications viable?
Colin Eberhardt, September 11th, 2011
Just a few weeks ago I wrote a blogpost “Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable?”, where I described some of the issues with JavaScript and how these could be solved by Microsoft if they wrote a C# to JavaScript compiler. Just a couple of days ago it was announced that Google have [...]
Bezier demo
Chris Price, August 23rd, 2011
I was reading over one of the tutorials over at html5rocks.com (if you haven’t had a look through them before I’d thoroughly recommend it!) and came across an article by Ilmari Heikkinen on creating a “kiosk-mode” for chromeexperiments.com (another thoroughly recommended site!). The article itself was pretty interesting but it was a pretty insignificant part that caught my eye. [...]
Can Microsoft ‘fix’ JavaScript and make HTML5 applications viable?
Colin Eberhardt, August 16th, 2011
Microsoft’s recent change in stance over Silverlight, promoting HTML5 as “the only true cross-platform solution for everything”, seems to have sidelined Silverlight as a niche framework. This has understandably caused a great deal of upset and confusion in the .NET development community. Despite this, Microsoft are remaining steadfast and tight-lipped about their vision for tighter [...]
A Webapp By Another Name II – The many pitfalls of using the application cache on mobile platforms
Chris Price, June 10th, 2011
In part one I discussed my objective to create a “web-less webapp” which could masquerade as a native application on all modern mobile platforms. I covered the gotchas of developing with the cache, but stopped short of discussing the problems that come about when you wrap it up for each platform. In this post I’ll [...]
A Webapp By Another Name – The many pitfalls of using the application cache on mobile platforms
Chris Price, June 3rd, 2011
In this first installment, I’ll introduce the appcache, talk about some gotchas of using the appcache and hopefully give some helpful hints for debugging it based on my experience. Introduction The appcache is a new DOM feature added in the unholy bundle we call HTML5. It aims to allow your webapp to be loaded even [...]