Speaking of SVG, Lachlan Hardy pointed out the Raphaël JavaScript library to me, and I wanted to pass it along. This library provides cross-browser dynamic vector graphics that generates VML for IE, and SVG for the rest of the world. Among the graphical elements you can create are paths, eclipses, rectangles, circles, and text, and be able to apply […]
Year: 2008
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Consumers new best friend: Stop the Cap!
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Stop the Cap! is a web site and weblog dedicated to the fight against broadband caps. From the Mission Statement: We feel the current usage caps being considered by broadband providers are unreasonable, some moreso than others. Those below 10GB per month are outrageous. Others which may run above 100GB […]
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Future proofing books
The downside of the recent flurry of activity regarding JavaScript/ECMAScript is that I’m in the middle of tech editing Learning JavaScript, second edition, and not sure what to include. On the one hand, it’s extremely important to me that the book be accurate, so my inclination is not to including anything that isn’t implemented in […]
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Four shorts make a long
Exposing science fiction writers to science David Levine writes about Launch Pad, NASA’s program to expose science to science fiction writers. Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets lists great ocean weblogs. Photojojo covers strange photo projects. The squished people don’t do anything for me, but I do like the little people, big world photos. You’ve all watched the Large […]
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Squid Friday
Lots out of Australia about squid this week: From ABC: New Zealand’s mysterious colossal squid, the largest of the feared and legendary species ever caught, was not the T-Rex of the oceans but a lethargic blob, new research suggests. At least it’s not a costume filled with possum road kill. To answer last week’s question, as to […]