Category: HTML5
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How access a laptop or phone camera in a web page
It is now possible to access a laptop or phone camera using a web page and standard HTML5. This is amazing. There is documentation and a working example here. Check it out, it worked for me. http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ —(update 2015-02-07 20:08)— This works in Chrome on PC and Android phone. It does not work in IE…
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How to choose fonts for your website
Font pairing isn’t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with Google Fonts pairing suggestions.
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CSS: How to “sandbox” a DIV – a lesson in futility
I am writing this article in the spirit of the scientific principle that negative results should be published (but there is some helpful stuff later on.) Many of us today are not developing new applications but ones which must work with, or sit within other applications that generate HTML and JavaScript. One very common example is…
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Opera joins Google/Apple in-crowd with shift to WebKit and Chromium
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/13/webkit_sucks_on_webkit_chromium/
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A review of JavaScript drawing libraries for flowcharts, Gantt charts and timelines
Overview I manage my projects using my own ElephantPM project management methodology. This is a similar in many ways to PRINCE2 but is greatly simplified so that it is suitable for use by smaller organisations. My needs ElephantPM divides the Start-up stage into an analysis step and a planning step. During the analysis step it…
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Presentation tier: Smart Client vs Sencha Ext JS
For our current project Keyapt we have chosen to use Smartclient for the presentation tier. This is RESTfully coupled to business tier. Others I respect have chosen to use the Sencha tools for the same job. I thought it would be useful to find a comparison and found a good one on stack exchange. Smartclient…
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Creating data-driven graphs
I have a need to programmatically create flowcharts and organisational charts for use with an WordPress or Wiki site. This sort of diagram is called a “graph” (not be confused with “charts” in this context). Graph software falls into the scientific or commercial category. Good scientific packages include JUNG, Prefuse, Piccolo2D. These are optimised for…
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Londroid 16 Sep 2011 – 1.6 million downloads
The Londroid September meetup was a great success. Here is a quick review for people who could not make it. Kabbee – A marketplace for minicab journeys – Phil Makinson What is Kabbee? Kabbee is a price comparison and booking service for quality minicabs in Greater London. Very nice use of a smartphone. This is…
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Firefox maker moves towards a browser-free world • The Register
This is an interesting article about mobile, web and HTML5. Mobiles need ‘a strong infusion of Mozilla values’ via Firefox maker moves towards a browser-free world • The Register.
Dr James Bayley 