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The Ultimate Guide to Progressive Web Applications – DZone Web Dev
Raphael.js or Kinetic?
The biggest difference between RaphaelJS and KineticJS is that RaphaelJS uses SVG and KineticJS uses HTML5 Canvas for visualization.
So it really depends on what kind of project you are doing.
Here are some useful links which you should check out regarding SVG vs Canvas:
- Thoughts on when to use Canvas and SVG (also describes a hybrid approach)
- Simon Sarris excellent reply in this stackoverflow thread (I also posted some benchmarks between SVG and canvas in the same thread)
To summarize:
- If you want to create some interactive charts I would go with RaphaelJS because it's easier to do that with SVG (KineticJS does provide some abstract API which should make it fairly easy to do that too).
- If you want to visualize huge numbers of shapes/objects I would recommend to use KineticJS as canvas scales usually better with huge numbers of shapes/objects to be drawn and KineticJS uses multiple layers to improve rendering performance.
Good advice from the almighty https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9015221/kineticjs-vs-raphaeljs
PatternFly
PatternFly an open source web user interface framework promoting consistency and usability across IT applications through UX patterns and widgets
Users are the advertizers, us are the product
Fom a 2012, oldish but goldish Le Web Interview to Matt Mullenweg:
“Instagram primary users are not what we think of as users, it’s advertisers, and us are the product”.
Firefox marketshare revisited
Duck
Firefox marketshare revisited | Andreas Gal
Briefly:
- Google is cannibalizing other browsers
- Mozilla should team-up with DuckDuckGo
- Firefox on Android is growing
Reverse Engineering One Line of JavaScript
Reverse Engineering One Line of JavaScript
These feats reminds me of the mythological hacking contests on PDP10. JavaScript is the “assembler of the web”
Masonry
Masonry, a Cascading grid layout library is used in the theme I currently use (Carton). Shall use it for my forthcoming “Basilica” Theme
I want to dive a little into WordPress codebase but modern PHP is quite a different language from what I’ve learned – albeit a little – way ago, so long ago that WordPress didn’t even existed then. Beside reading the obvious official documentation, I’ve discovered that the almighty O’Really seems not to have a recent book on PHP, or a book about recent PHP either. As books from Packt publishing quite often turns out to be “quite shallow”, I’ve been looking for info the good old way, namely IRC channels. They told me these little gems:
Well, they really look the right documentation for me.
Random WebAssembly links
Some WebAssembly links to study (to implement LibertyEiffel to WebAssembler):