Badass JavaScript@badass_js

A showcase of awesome JavaScript that pushes the boundaries of what's possible on the web, by @devongovett.

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Malte Ubl
@cramforce
20 Jul 2011
Nice, Douglas Crockford who, I think, never was on Twitter has an active and interesting G+ account plus.google.com/u/1/11809527…
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Apparently the HTML5 Canvas element is now hardware accelerated in Safari 5.1!
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
20 Jul 2011
Phew, PDFKit finally has unicode font subsetting support! Commit: github.com/devongovett/pdfki… Example PDF: cl.ly/0N1v0o3s1E0R0N1e0f3E
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Check out the @NodeUp podcast featuring some Node.js rockstars. Episode 2 just came out! nodeup.com
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BerlinJS@berlinjs
18 Jul 2011
If you talk didn't get accepted for @jsconfeu this year, submit it to Reject.js: spreadsheets.google.com/spre…
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Mathias Bynens@mathias
18 Jul 2011
Why you should probably avoid `isNaN` and just use `foo != foo` to test for `NaN` values in JavaScript: http://mths.be/bbx
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FunctionSource@functionsource
18 Jul 2011
Self Extracting PNG Fun: Today we have an example that involves a PNG being served as HTML, and part of the PNG ... http://bit.ly/ngt0oq
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Last chance to register a team for this year's Node.js Knockout. Only 35 spots left! nodeknockout.com/
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@justindarc read this article about why Google Docs moved away from contentEditable: googledocs.blogspot.com/2010…
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Pierre Bertet@bpierre
17 Jul 2011
Replying to @badass_js
@badass_js Bespin / Skywriter used canvas: mozillalabs.com/skywriter/20…
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If canvas is fast enough to render PDFs, it is fast enough for a rich text editor. And just think of the cool things you could do with it!
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This is how the new Google Docs editor works. googledocs.blogspot.com/2010… First person to write a full featured rich text editor in <canvas> wins!
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Wow, a self extracting PNG! Loads as HTML, which uses JS to unpack the compressed code within the PNG file. Crazy! news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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RT @ryah: #nodejs v0.5.1 is the first to ship with an official Windows executable. We're hoping to get some good feedback.
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
14 Jul 2011
jsBCrypt is an implementation of BCrypt written in JavaScript: http://j.mp/qrRa6g
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We've got MP3 in JS, so why not MP2? cosinusoidally.github.com/mp… Code: github.com/cosinusoidally/mp…
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RT @cramforce: Seems like IE10 gets real web worker debugging support. Other browsers step up! blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/…
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
11 Jul 2011
`npm install pdfkit` to try it out for yourself!
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
11 Jul 2011
Check out the PDFKit programming guide. This is no list of functions, but a full blown tutorial! devongovett.github.com/pdfki…
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
11 Jul 2011
Libraries written for PDFKit: * TTF, AFM, DFont & TTC font parsing * JPEG and PNG image parsing * PDF format generation github.com/devongovett/pdfki…
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