Friday, August 03, 2012

HTML5 Canvas World Map SVG Path with KineticJS

HTML5 Canvas World Map SVG Path with KineticJS

"Canvas" is very efficient, since everything is a bitmap, and SVG is very flexible, but "expensive" because it is using DOM. With KinecticJS library, Canvas gets some of features of SVG. It can detect "mouse over" and highlight selected state... The site has 10 great examples...

Windows 8 HTML5 Geospatial Apps

podcast The Tablet Show: "Jason Follas Builds Geospatial Apps in Windows 8"

A great overview of IE10 and WinJS platform in Windows 8.
Besides "native" integration of JavaScript with WinRT,
there is also "classic" embedded web browser option as an "iframe"
that can be used in same way as with PhoneGap on any mobile platform.
So this in fact could be "the best of both worlds".
Good job, Microsoft and Windows team!

Very knowledgeable guest, and very useful show links!

Graphics on the Web: Canvas vs. SVG

MSDN: Web Dev Report - Working with Graphics on the Web: Canvas vs. SVG

Example difference of "zooming" a bitmap (Canvas) vs. vector graphics (SVG)

Windows Server 2012, PowerShell 3.0 and DevOps

RunAs Radio: "Windows Server 2012, PowerShell 3.0 and DevOps."

Flash is dead. Long live Adobe AIR

Adobe AIR | Adobe AIR 3 | Deploy applications:

Another way to build portable mobile applications, from Adobe.
Adobe AIR / Flash Builder could build "native" apps from ActionScript code.
One option is to embed web browser, and make HTML5 app look like native.
So this is an alternative to Phone Gap, now also owned by Adobe.

podcast @TheTabletShow, Carl and Richard talk to David Bates about the state of Flash.