joelgwebber

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by joelgwebber 16y ago
That would be awesome. An incredibly awkward contortion of CSS is always a better way to render a logo than, you know, pixels.
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by joelgwebber 16y ago
I agree. We should go back to the W3C's existing visual design, which I've always found to be beautiful.
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by joelgwebber 16y ago
Languages like CoffeeScript do fall into the "alternative syntax" category. And things like emscripten (and some others I've seen) probably fall into the latter. If you try to abstract out a traditional VM on top of Javascript, you're likel
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by joelgwebber 16y ago
Don't hold your breath. Everyone seems to be predicting huge gains in Javascript performance based on two data points (it used to be really, really slow, and now it's only 5-10x slower than native). But an incredible amount of effort has be
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by joelgwebber 16y ago
I'd like to point out a couple of things about these choices for examples of rich UI libraries: All three of them throw most of the DOM, and reimplement almost everything from scratch: structure, layout, and most behavior (outside of that p
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by joelgwebber 16y ago
I'd say it's a lot cooler than having to change the HTTP protocol and push new web browsers to everyone.
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by joelgwebber 16y ago
And how, pray tell, would you expect a crawler to fetch the content at twitter.com/#!/ev, considering that the server doesn't even see the hash part of the URL? That's the whole point. The simple fact is that plenty of sites (like Twitter,
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by joelgwebber 16y ago
One important thing to consider before going down that route -- the font metrics in the Canvas API are extremely impoverished, so it will be very difficult to do much more than a simple text editor. In particular, there's no support for con
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by joelgwebber 16y ago
The Java Datastore API is much more straightforward as well. I strongly prefer to just use it directly over JDO/JPA, which suffers from a bit of an impedance mismatch.
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by joelgwebber 17y ago
It's April 2, and still true :)
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by joelgwebber 17y ago
Minor clarification: The code doesn't literally contain the shareware levels (we don't have the right to do that either) -- there is a script that will download and convert them for you. And I've confirmed that it works on the full game p
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by joelgwebber 17y ago
It's also worth pointing out that a compiled GWT application can be deployed entirely statically. The Java RPC system does require a servlet container, but there are lots of other ways of talking to servers (JSON[P], XHR, etc).
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by joelgwebber 17y ago
I don't believe so, though the web implementation of Latitude ( http://maps.google.com/maps/m?mode=latitude ) for iPhone and Palm Pre does.