Posts Tagged ‘cool stuff’

So last week Mozilla released FireFox 3.5, which introduces some awesome new features, all of which can be found on the Mozilla release notes page.

The ones I’m most excited about are the newly supported CSS properties, improved JavaScript capabilities (through TraceMonkey), SVG features, and HTML 5 support.

Now we can do things like use downloadable fonts (goodbye sIFR!), specify border images, achieve amazing shadow and border effects, use the CANVAS tag, and it looks like they even included cross-domain XMLHTTPRequests.

How practical all this will become only time can tell. We know other browsers are including like features, so we can only hope developers will keep visitors and security in mind as they build applications.

Saw this on digg, and I found it interesting. It is probably just some nazi propaganda, but still very detailed and though provoking to read. Be sure to read the list at the bottom, as there is some very harsh stuff in there. It will be interesting to see just how accurate it becomes…

This is one of the coolest things I have used in a while. A Graffiti Creator that does exactly what it says: creates graffiti. Although the components appear to be pretty set and hard coded, the overall experience is superior and I haven’t seen anything remotely capable of creating this anywhere else. The only concern for me on this would of course be scalability, as right now they have to make a new flash movie for each font. I would like to encompass all fonts into a single editor, along with all other effects. The fact that it’s not done this way already questions it’s structure, but it’s a fun tool nonetheless and I’ll continue to show it off to friends. I hope they come out with a more robust master version.