Tue 16 Sep 2008
Well, from time to time I venture to other operating systems and also from time to time you come across some pretty cool apps that help out. I recently stumbled upon Drawberry for OSX. Its a very simplistic vector graphics editor which even I can use! Definitely worth a try, and best of all is its price!
DrawBerry from Jay Hilgert on Vimeo.
Mon 15 Sep 2008
Thanks to a user commenting on a previous post I now have a new weapon in the arsenal. Jstween is a javascript tweening library which is much more light weight than using a full library like mootools or jQuery. It has the standard color and opacity tweens but also text tweens, which I haven’t seen advertised in other major libraries before, although the theory behind it is pretty simple. The only missing item I didn’t see(which I do love in mootools, although I’m sure its an intensive routine) is tweening between classes. Definitely worth a look!
Fri 5 Sep 2008
No new news here, just the fact that theres a lot happening now with the web browsers. First there is Google Chrome making its debut. Then it is reported Firefox’s new javascript engine, Trace Monkey, is faster than V8. And now all of a sudden Yahoo is flashing Firefox at the top of their page as their recommended web browser. All at the same time what ever happed to IE8?
I think there could have been some strategic planning on the release of Chrome to beat out IE8, and perhaps intercept some of the faithful IE users. It could have also been coincidence. But now yahoo is clearly supporting Firefox and perhaps yet again will attract more IE users. Since Yahoo doesn’t have a browser I don’t think this will effect them as much, but it is clearly shaping up to be a three way battle between IE8, Firefox, and Chrome in my opinion. As far as opinions on the browsers go I think all three are becoming very well rounded browsers, so I think all of them are pretty good compared to 2-3 years ago.
With all this commotion who will benefit the most?
