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This may be slightly stale news to folks who keep their ear to the wire, but the Laszlo folks announced last month that they are planning on supporting DHTML as a compilation target some time this year. The current release of their Laszlo Presentation Server 3.2 supports compilation to Flash SWF6, SWF7 and SWF8. The next version (code-named "Legals", likely 4.0) will support compilation to DHTML and SWF9. You can also read their wikified current plan. If nothing else, you should check out the DHTML demo application to see what Laszlo will be capable of. Read the rest of this entry ...
The W3C has released the first draft of a new specification today, XML for Binary Streams (XBS). The basic idea seems to revolve around taking a binary stream and encoding it as XML. Read the rest of this entry ...
Check it out. Glen, Erik and Emil have been working on implementing Canvas in Internet Explorer. Looks like that's done and now up on SourceForge: Download here. An open-source project from Google... Brilliant! I only hope it's not a cruel April Fool's Joke.
Now that all 4 major browsers (IE, Firefox 1.5, Opera 9 and Safari) can do the Canvas thing, this should lead to some really interesting times. I hope they join forces with Mark Finkle and use the same cross-browser drawing API to get SVG fully implemented in IE. Me? I'll just sit back and watch the magic happen.
Via Arve, the Opera Web Applications blog talks of how the Opera 9 Browser has made extensions to the canvas element specifically for authoring games for the browser. Read the rest of this entry ...