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My personal 'Ultimate, Awesome!' resource compendium (Part 1) - About six months ago, I began an entry that I thought would be the 'mother of all resources' to things principally related to After Effects but also about Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Production Premium. That last about a week and I finally erased the entry. Why?  Because it's impossible to try and put it all in one entry and it would be incomplete at it's best. So, I've decided to do the next best thing: Tell you about the r

Fun with text-shadow - Zach Johnson is at it again, this time giving us a fun Friday treat with CSS text shadow, all via: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   document.getElementById('text-shadow-box').onmousemove = function(e) {     var xm = e.clientX - 300;     var ym = e.clientY - 175;     var d = Math.sqrt(xm*xm + ym*ym);     text.style.textShadow = -xm + 'px ' + -ym + [...]

Displaying Styles in Design View - In Dreamweaver CS3, a feature was introduced to allow CSS style rendering to be turned OFF in Design View: View > Style Rendering > Display Styles This allows you to quickly view the semantic structure of a page. It's also helpful when marking up or editing content inside elements that are not accessible in Design View for whatever reason. Originally, this setting persisted until changed. But, many users turned off this setting without knowing what it was, and later would go crazy trying

Scripty2 has landed - Thomas Fuchs has been working in the open on scripty2 for a bit, and now the website has launched. It even comes with nice documentation and fun demos: What’s new in scripty2? It is a complete rewrite, and comes packaged in three parts: scripty2 core contains the main namespace and an area for extensions to be added. It [...]

First beta of YUI 3.0 released - Congrats to the YUI team for releasing their first beta of YUI 3: Weâ??ve spent a lot of time in this release cycle refining the core elements of YUI 3 â?? YUI, Node, and Event â?? to ensure that we have the right API going forward. Performance is improved, and weâ??ve refined our module/submodule structure. In [...]

JavaScript sandbox using Web Workers - We have been sandboxing JavaScript in iframes for a long time. The Web Worker API has the nice property that it doesn't have access to objects like document and the like, and just runs code that you can pass over to it. With this, Elijah Grey has created an experimental jsandbox API that gives you an [...]

iPhone 3GS runs faster than claims, if you go by SunSpider - Rana Sobhany of Medialets has posted on Sun Spider benchmarks of the iPhone 3GS as well as other devices which shows off the performance angle of 3GS: The WebKit Open Source Project provides a JavaScript test Suite dubbed SunSpider. According to the description on the SunSpider home page, â??this benchmark tests the core JavaScript language only, [...]

MooTools: Saving the dollars, replacing document.write - The religion behind a simple $ has been fierce in the Web world. MooTools has decided to make the Dollar Safe Mode which is similar to cousins such as jQuery.noConflict (in MooTools case it just looks for the $ function). Now you can just use document.id if you want to play in the wild, or [...]

ProtoFish: advanced hover menu - ProtoFish is an advanced hover menu based on Prototype, written by Peter Slagter. You can easily add a delay to your menu (on mouseout) and choose your own hover class. All ProtoFish menu's will respond to users who use the TAB-key to navigate through your page. It is trivial to use. Once you load up [...]

Sprite Me! Helping you sprite up, but maybe you shouldnâ??t? - There have been many tools to help make image spriting easier, by packaging up your images into one large image and splitting it up again via CSS. Steve Souders just showed off a new little tool he created, Sprite Me at the Velocity conference that kicked off today. He has made it easier to work with [...]

Learning: Flex and XML as easy as 1…2…3 - ActionScript 3.0 made working with XML much easier than prior versions. In ActionScript 3.0 XML is treated as a native data type. In this article I'll show you just how easy it is to work with XML and Flex. Go ahead and create a new Flex Builder project and call it "FlexAndXML". As you type [...]

HTML 5 and the Wizard of Oz - Kyle Weems, the CSS Squirrel and author of the occasional and bizarre comic of the same name, targets his latest rendering at Ian Hickson: Click-through to see the full comic. The related blog entry fleshes out the basic complaint some more: Why is it that the person who is the center of this process is allowed to [...]

Fun with 3D CSS and video - How about starting the week with something fun. Zach Stronaut has been having fun with 3D effects via CSS such as his isocube above, which is brought to you with simple HTML (including a video tag for a playing video on the surface!) and some CSS like this: PLAIN TEXT CSS:   .face {     position: absolute;     width: [...]

NodeIterator.areYou(IMPRESSED | WHOCARES | WHA?) - John Resig has posted on the DOM traversal methods now in Firefox 3.5 and then a spin out post on the merits of the NodeIterator API. He isn't impressed: This API is, at best, bloated, and at worst incredibly misguided and impractical for day-to-day use. Observe the method signature of createNodeIterator: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   var nodeIterator = document.createNodeIterator(   root, // [...]

What do Web developers want from browser marketers? - As a follow on from the recent post on Microsoft marketing for the week, a few people have given great feedback on what we actually expect from browser marketing. This is a key point that was missing in the post as it gives those watching something to understand that could make things better. This is [...]

Serial Asynchronous XmlHttpRequests - By default we should always favour asynchronous XHR to help the responsiveness of our Web applications. However, have you ever wanted a way to serialize your XHR calls because you needed to do things in sequence as B relied on what came back from A? You could call a synchronous Ajax call, but that locks up [...]

â??Get the factsâ?쳌 from Microsoft Marketing - There are some good engineers working to make IE a better browser. I don't want to belittle their work, but I couldn't let go the recent work of various marketing groups this week. First up, we had the the chaps from down under try to buy downloads with 10 grand, ripping into other browsers along the [...]

JavaScript Compatibility Tests - Robert Nyman has setup a really nice test suite for JavaScript 1.6, 1.7, and 1.8+ features such as getters/setters, Object.defineProperty, Object.getPrototypeOf, new String extras, and JSON. It includes compatibility tables, and will try to run the tests on your browser to give you feedback. It also includes sample code to check web browser support that you [...]

Named function expressions in incredible detail - The intrepid JS hacker Juriy "kangax" Zaytsev has an incredibly detailed post on demystifying named function expressions: Surprisingly, a topic of named function expressions doesnâ??t seem to be covered well enough on the web. This is probably why there are so many misconceptions floating around. In this article, Iâ??ll try to summarize both - theoretical and [...]

Registration Now Open for The Ajax Experience 2009! -  ”When the heck are you guys going to open registration for The Ajax Experience this year!?” Over the last 3 months that is, without question, the most frequently received email we’ve had from Ajaxian members like you. The good news is that the wait is finally over! Registration has officially opened for this year’s Ajax Experience [...]

Open Codecs, Open Video - There has been a nice discussion H.264-in-<video> vs plugin APIs on the WhatWG list. This lead to Greg Maxwell posting about his experience with the quality of Ogg Theora with real world examples, and Chris Blizzard linked it up with 35 days offering the following lead in: The codecs being discussed are the same ones weâ??ll be [...]

Opera Unite: P2P in the browser with a services model - Opera has been leading us on to a bit product launch, and it came today in the form of Opera Unite a product which extends the Opera browser to contain a Web server inside allowing you to talk P2P between browsers (via a proxy at operaunite.com). On the one hand, skeptics have argued that this has [...]

Doodle: Sprite library for Canvas - Billy Lamberta got tired having to get so low-level as you do with the raw Canvas API. So, he create a small abstraction layer: Doodle.js attempts to create a fun and easy way to interact with the Canvas that is lightweight, flexible, and functional. While it contains a few shape primitives it is not meant to [...]

CSS3 breaking in the design community - CSS3 properties can greatly improve your workflow, making some of the most time-consuming CSS tasks a breeze and allowing for better, cleaner and more lightweight markup. Some properties are still not widely supported, even by the most recent browsers, but that doesnâ??t mean we shouldnâ??t experiment with them or give visitors with modern browsers advanced [...]

Bing API does callback checking for JSON-P - I just looked through the API of Microsoft's new Bing search and found an interesting step in protecting code from throwing errors. When you provide a JSON output for developers it does make sense to also allow for a callback parameter. That way your code can be used in script nodes without having to use any [...]

geoGreeting - Messages Created From Aerial Building Views - Your greeted with the cryptic message, “The surface of the earth holds a message for you. You just need to look a little closer.” Very Matrix like, but true with this very clever visualization. As the Jesse Vig the developer stated, “While working on a different Google Maps project, I noticed that a number of [...]

HP's DreamColor display - 'simply' awesome - Video editors and graphics artists have always relied on a monitor to help them achieve their vision.  Years ago, it was the size of the monitor that mattered.  It was also the refresh rates available.  Then came LCD's but they weren't black enough or fast enough.  Fast forward a few years and now we're dumping CRTs at the local recycling center and LCD's are the standard - the black and speed issues largely overcome.  Well, I've seen the futu

Premiere Pro 4.1 getting good feedback - Premiere Pro has been out for a couple of weeks has been really well received thus far.  It's not only addressed some bugs but also added some new functionality like the RED workflows, .VOB editing and Avid IMX import.  I wanted to quickly post some of the feedback that's been posted on the Adobe forums. ;-) "I'm very happy so far with 4.1 - they did a great job"   "They fixed eve

JS.Class 2.1 released - James Coglan has updated JS.Class, his implementation of Ruby’s object system in JavaScript. This release includes a Hash implementation, HashSet, an updated Ruby 1.9 Enumerable module with enumerators and Symbol#to_proc functionality, and an improved package loader that supports parallel downloads and runs on SpiderMonkey, Rhino and V8. Detailed Changes New libraries: ConstantScope, Hash and HashSet, a much [...]

Jetpack 0.2: slidebars, jetpack.future, and persistent storage - On the back of the first Jetpack announcement, we see new version announced, 0.2 that adds slidebars, jetpack.future, and persistent storage. Slidebar isn't a spelling mistake, but a slightly different take on the traditional sidebar. Check out Aza in his screencast to see them in action, and wait for the part where he sucks in a [...]

InfoVis Toolkit 1.1 - Nicolas Garcia Belmonte has updated InfoViz with version 1.1. The JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit provides tools for creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web. The code has been updated: The library has been split into modules for code reuse. All visualizations are packaged in the same file. You can create multiple instances of any visualization. Moreover, you can combine [...]

Ext Updates: Ext JS 3.0, Ext GWT 2.0; New apps and sites running - There has be some interesting news in Ext land recently, so we wanted to do a quick roundup post to get it out there: Ext JS 3.0 RC2 Release - Stable, Robust, and Enhanced Some of the major fixes include: Items are now automatically laid out when they are first shown - rather than trying to calculate dimensions [...]

CS4 Code Printing Improvements - Starting with Dreamweaver CS4, code now prints with Syntax Coloring. The exception to this is that background colors are not printed. Code printing recognizes the "Syntax Coloring" Code View setting in the:   View > Code View Options menu for turning off coloring. The "Line Numbers" setting is also recognized when printing.

Animating SVG with Canvas and Burst - Christopher Blizzard and his team are doing great write-ups on hacks.mozilla.org as they celebrate 35 days of Open Web goodness. They just posted on the work of Alistair MacDonald who used his Burst engine to demonstrate taking SVG and having Burst load it and convert it all to JavaScript objects that are rendered inside of a [...]

jQuery Tools - Tero Piirainen has created a new package of jQuery Tools. This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today's website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled. In the end, you can have hundreds of different widgets and new [...]

Ample SDK: Browser-in-a-Browser - Sergey Ilinsky, formerly of Ajax pioneer Backbase, has created a new Ajax toolkit called Ample SDK. The best way to describe Ample SDK is that it's a browser-within-a-browser, but not in the visual sense. Rather, it aims to implement in JavaScript the stack of rendering technologies typically delegated to the browser. For example, Ample currently [...]

Web Developer Collection: Packaged up Firefox extensions - Over the years we are have mentioned many Firefox, and Firebug plugins to aid us Web developers. Wouldn't it be nice to subscribe to a bundle of these tools? The Firefox Add On team has now given us that ability with Add On Collections: Today, weâ??re excited to introduce a new feature to our website that [...]

Styling buttons as links allowing you to POST away - Have you ever wanted to just <a href="path" action="post">? Remember the hub-ub with the old Google Web Accelerator and how it started to crawl links to delete actions that were mistakenly using GET? Natalie Downe has written up a piece on styling HTML buttons as links which means that you can somewhat get the same effect. [...]

Finally, a useful blink tag! Detecting your user blinking - Dave Burke just gave an awesome demo at GDD Beijing. Fire up Firefox 3.5beta (for now) and head over here and watch the human blink detection in action! Here Dave tells us more about his awesome hack: Inspired by a demo by Paul Rouget, I’ve created an image processing demo that detects eye blinks in real-time. It [...]

Titanium gets hardened with new beta that features Mobile and more - Appcelerator has announced a Titanium beta that adds to their desktop vision with new APIs and developer tool but also allows you to create mobile applications using HTML/CSS/JavaScript (and in fact Ruby, Python, …) that run on iPhone and Android. You can take a look at what it takes to develop for desktop and mobile in [...]

JavaFX 1.2: An introduction for developers - As a developer I'm starting to become somewhat picky with the technologies I spend my time to learn since there are so many "pet" programming languages, new toolkits, new frameworks, etc. JavaFX launched approximately a year ago. I've already got a pretty good grasp on Adobe's Flash/Flex tools as well as a working [...]

Dope - the new/old FWA - So, our creative director http://between0and1.wordpress.com has just come across http://www.dopeawards.com as we got a ‘recognition’ for 6 beers (sweeeet!!). I’m thinking this might make a welcome change to the now ‘video heavy’ http://thefwa.com . Funny thing is, dope awards looks a lot like the fwa of yester-year - anybody else noticed this? Bookmark:

ProMax BDA in NYC 6/16-18 - If you're in the New York City area, you might want to come to ProMax BDA.  It's a high-end design type event around motion graphics and the like. The plus side is that you get to meet with a lot of top broadcasters and post houses.  The down side is that it is not a free event.  So if you're a full-time designer, you should definitely look at this event as continuing education.

Firefogg: Ogg Theora Encoding Plugin - Test Drive the latest Thusnelda theora encoder with in-browser Video Encoder Firefogg. Firefogg is an open source extension written by xiph hacker Jan Gerber that lets web developers request ogg video from their users. Since Firefogg is a Firefox extension it allows users to stay up to date with the latest and greatest theora [...]

GeoFill - find users by IP or lookup and prefill forms for them - One thing that annoys me is that in the days of geolocation and location recognition I still have to enter my country and city in forms over and over again. This is especially annoying when you like in the UK which could be anywhere in these wonderful large dropdowns (UK, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, [...]

Craftmanship and UI latency - Ben gave a fantastic talk on creating compelling user experiences that discussed craftmanship in software. He details the somewhat opposing views of Alan Cooper (pictured above) and Joel Spolsky talking about how IT people are screwed when it comes to quality. A depressing thought, and one that we need to combat in the trenches by just [...]

Telecommunications Visualization - “New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world. In an information age, telecommunications such as the Internet and the telephone bind people across space by eviscerating the constraints [...]

Amazon Bookstore Visualization - Have you ever wanted to browse the bookstore shelves online? Zoomii is a visualization where you can do just that. To quote the founder, “Why Zoomii? Because I love bookstores. Spending afternoons wandering the shelves. Happening across great books I didn’t even know existed. But it’s an experience I never found online. Online bookstores [...]

Some thoughts on Premiere Pro 4.1 - I'm back in the blogosphere!  My absence has been punctuated by visits to the likes of HBO, CNN, FOX and many more. Broadcast is alive and well but my entries have consequently suffered.  In my absence, Premiere Pro version 4.1 has been released.  It's a terrific release and I wanted to give some thoughts, miscellaneous tidbits and point people to some resources to learn more.

Moousture: mouse gesture library - Zohaib Sibt-e-Hassan has created a Mootools based mouse gesture library Moousture that is based on simplicity: A probe, which probes the pointing device. Currently there is a Moousture.MouseProbe (P.S. I am planning to test it on iPhone and build any seprate probe for that). A monitor, which tests the stability of probed device on given intervals and accordingly notifies [...]