yesterday definitely was “widget-day”, as WidgetsLive, the first conference solely centerend on web-widgets took place in san francisco. of all the talks & product-announcements (read Liz Gannes’ extensive coverage at GigaOM), Fox Interactive’s launch of their widget-platform SpringWidgets (beta) was probably the hottest topic of the day.
while I tend to find most widget-engines quite [...]
Mahemoff’s Software-As-She’s-Developed-blog gives a brief overview on eight methods for creating dynamic graphics within the browser. besides more obvious choices like SVG/VML (Vector Markup Language, Microsoft’s equivalet of SVG) or Flash, the post also introduces lesser known options like the Canvas-element (think of a fully scriptable -element – currently supported by Firefox, Safari & Opera) [...]
recently launched (MoMB is a bless!) blogmusik.net delivers free music on-demand through a flash-based audio-player. just search for your favorite artist or track and you’re ready to roll. unlike TechCrunch initially suggested, blogmusik doesn’t host any audio-data itself and therefor is not pledged to pay for licensing. so how does it work then? blogmusik either [...]
Google Maps Flight Sim is a flash-based mashup developed by Mark Caswell-Daniels. using the keyboard, players can navigate a small airplane flying over digital maps snatched directly from Google Maps. the nice-looking experience is completed by an onboard-cannon however, there is still room for improvement, as the faq suggests:
I have plans to add [...]
SingShot, an online-karaoke-webapp (check this TechCrunch-post earlier today) made me waste spend almost two hours of my evening. basically it’s a flash-applet playing the instrumentals of a chosen song, tele-prompting its lyrics for singing-along on screen while recording your voice from the microphone. SingShot’s community will review and vote on your recorded [...]
during the last few days I’ve been diligently working on a web-application in the area of print/typography, featuring a browser-based text-editor with support for various fontfaces. the main problem in realizing such an editor is the impossibility to load arbitrary fontfaces (besides the standards, like helvetica, courier…) into the browser.
sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement), a [...]
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