RIAction Singapore on Thursday 26th Feb

The Singapore Flex Usergroup is very proud to present Singapore’s very first RIA ( Rich Internet Applications) Event – RIAction! Taking place on the 26th February 2009, RIAction will see speakers from Google, Microsoft, Adobe, together with community leaders, coming together for a day of technological updates, roadmaps and application showcase!

Seems like this is going to be another nice event organized by FUG Singapore, with some interesting topics… Event is free, and requires registration. See you there !

http://riaction.sg/

Mirko Zarkovic featured at Netdiver

Mirko Zarkovic, a friend of mine and also interesting designer had his portfolio website featured at Netdiver. Also Mirko was recently featured at Design in Europe blog… Respect!

Netdiver :

Look ma, no flash! Another list of links only on a bared white page as a website? Yepp – but nice scripting that makes all projects thumbnails appear nicely upon click. Nice handy work by Mirko Zarkovic, currently based in Singapore.

Hagane Agency delivered programming for this interesting design concept, one of the Flash like sites that are fully made in JS, about year ago… Boban Karishik mainly programmed it, while I took some more challenging JavaScript parts as well as simple but interesting Flash player…

Javascript Kung-fu : Fractals in 20 lines

Check out more javascript kung fu magic – Sierpinski carpet

this is made by Mathieu ‘P01′ HENRI

who created famous Javascript 3D Tomb 1 & 2 – http://www.3dtomb2.com/play/

respect!

280 Slides – Web software for Presentations

From time to time, Javascript showcases it’s power through work of talented people. 280 North did an amazing job on 280 Slides – web based software for making presentations. I did a little testing and it was working very nice.

source: Dru’s blog

Tetris in Javascript

Sometimes developers decide to build sites completly in Javascript that wants to have Flash look and feel. For me it’s a bad choice, mostly because of really bad experience, taking bad side in performance and experience because often there are no preloader no real fading no ease and soft transitions even they are trying to make it. It’s technically cool but that doesn’t makes me love the site.

On the other hand some Javascript developers push the limits making some 3d experiments or excellend 2d games in Javascript.
Tetris is well know game, possibly more then 2 decades passed after first version, and now I see it in Javascript, great implementaion and very playable, Tetris is not so processor demanding game. Great stuff, check it out (there is also link to the older version at the page)…

Tetris in Javascript

The World of ECMA Script by John Resig

Interesting map of ECMA script related programming languages, engines, applications is available at John Resigs blog. Why is ECMA so popular? (simple, organised … and so on ?)

ECMA 4 standard is coming, you can checkout wiki and contribute to upcoming changes

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SWFObject 2.0 beta5 – SWFFix with old/new name

SWFFix was the planned name for new gen of Flash embedding suite, but cause nothing is wrong and needs to be fixed, united authors decided to go with old/new and already famous name, SWFObject. So beta5 release of SWFObject 2.0 is ready to download at Google Code.

In SWFFix page interesting discussion about Flash accessibility is opened, and interesting link popped out http://niquimerret.com/, good collection of discussions and links on wide accessibility questions.

Yahoo UI Theater – Video lectures on JS, Ajax, Optimisation, Performance and much more

Take your browser to the wondrefull land of YUI Theater, collection of video lectures on modern topics coverin application programming for web and making them better.
YUI Theater

Ajax Solitaire

http://worldofsolitaire.com/

SWFFix ver0.2a available for download – JS Flash embedding

SWFFix ver0.2a download

This will became standard Javascript Flash integration into HTML being that all major authors of known JS integrations of Flash in HTML are in SWFFix team. Test it, use it

Very nice explanation of risks SWFFix (Javascript Flash embedding) are explained at their documentation pages :

What are the risks of using SWFFix?

When using embed option 1

Users that have JavaScript disabled or have browsers that don’t support JavaScript at all or not well enough may face a degraded user experience caused by active content or in the worst case, broken Flash content. Let’s calculate the odds:

• 4% of all web users have no JavaScript support or have JavaScript disabled (source: thecounter.com [ http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2007/June/javas.php ]). When you consider that IE6, IE7 and Opera have a market share of around 80% [ http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2007/June/browser.php ], you can do the math that there is a risk of 3.2% (4% of 80%) on a degraded user experience (having to click to activate active content).
• When you publish your Flash content for Flash player version 8 and a user has Flash Player 6 installed, there is a 0.2% (around 5% version gap of 4% no JavaScript) chance on broken or no content at all. When you publish your Flash content for Flash player version 8 and a user has Flash Player 7 installed this chance is already reduced to 0.1% (source: Adobe [ http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html ]).

Please note that although this approach still has its risks, the odds will be equal or lower than any other Flash embed method available.

When using embed option 2

Users that have JavaScript disabled or have browsers that don’t support JavaScript at all, will never be able to see any Flash content at all (regardless whether the latest Flash player is installed or not), however they will see alternative content instead. The odds:

• 4% of all web users have no JavaScript support or have JavaScript disabled (source: thecounter.com [ http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2007/June/javas.php ]).