Oh, I forgot to mention a cool thing that happened at the beginning of the year while I was so busy: Wikipedia inched a step closer to having an in-browser editing experience for its impressive collection of vector image files via an experimental MediaWiki Extension. The extension was put together by Brion Vibber of StatusNet and WikiMedia fame. Fingers crossed for this to one day appear in Wikipedia! 🙂
I've been busy at my day job not launching code, but over the weekend I had some fun converting kthoom's unzip/inflate algorithm from using binary strings to using Typed Arrays. Typed Arrays mean native binary data that is accessible to JavaScript in the browser, making operations like unzip much much faster (like 4x). Read the rest of this entry ...
I’ve updated my marketshare spreadsheet for Nov 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG and Canvas: 44.57%
I'm also tracking what percentage of web users can see SVG in an <img> tag: 18.41%
Grooveshark recently deployed an updated UI done in HTML5 instead of Flash. In a word, it's awesome. Scrolling is smoother. Text is fully selectable. I like being able to resize the UI (I don't think their previous Flash interface allowed zooming at all). I really hope Grooveshark can find a successful revenue model that will keep it alive. Read the rest of this entry ...
I’ve updated my marketshare spreadsheet for Oct 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG and Canvas: 44.11%
I also started tracking what percentage of web users can see SVG in an <img> tag: 18%