Kove – An utterly delightful community-created Choose Your Own Adventure game for the web.
Being an optimized version of the original Box2d-JS port, which is based on Box2d 1.4. Does your head hurt yet?
This version depends on jQuery instead of Prototype, and uses SVG instead of the Canvas tag. Check out the demo.
This one uses the even newer Box2d 2.1. It, like the previously mentioned port, is extremely short on documentation aside from the standard Box2d docs.
An (automated) port of Box2dflash 2.0, which is a bit slower than the older (and dead) Box2D 1.4 JS port, but is less complicated to use and has fewer dependencies.
Kreskin is an album generator, which essentially automates the Wikipedia Band Name Game. To wit:
You have likely played this game on a grey workday afternoon, but Kreskin makes the process much easier. Using the sources above, Kreskin grabs the needed information and presents you with a lovely image with a permalink that you can pass around, no manual labor needed. Kreskin also picks from a random assortment of freely-licensed web fonts to snazz up your album covers.
Here are a few of my favorite albums so far:
Kreskin is an Extra Future 6-hour Project.
This of it as a wiki-style take on the classic book genre. Just sign in via Twitter OAuth and start adding and editing pages. All content is published under a CC-BY license. There is also an atom feed of new pages.
Kove is an Extra Future 6-Hour Project.
My good friend Shawn Medero’s new blog, which is a conversationally-toned look at the latest web browser development trends, issues, and a wee bit of futurecasting.
Worth monitoring if you build websites or just need to look into the sausage factory every now and again.
A pack containing a rudimentary baseline HTML5 document, with CSS and JS files. It sounds like a does a bit more than it needs to do, but I suppose in this case that’s better than not enough.
A pretty incredible implementation of tabs for Firefox, which mimics the good parts of Exposé and Spaces on OS X. The kicker: It’s twitter entirely in HTML, CSS and JS.
via Lukas Mathis
This is a useful tool that belongs in every web developer’s utility belt. Color-blindness affects up to 8% of the male population (ladies are safer, only 0.5% are color-blind). Any usability test document that doesn’t test for color-blindness isn’t very good.
Spoiler: They’re all bullshit and have wildly wrong numbers.
Enables some of the most useful CSS3 features for IE6-8, such as border-radius, box-shadow, and linear-gradient. This will save me hours every week.
Eric Meyer, in praise of browser prefixes such as -webkit:
If the history of web standards has shown us anything, it’s that hacks will be necessary. By front-loading the hacks using vendor prefixes and enshrining them in the standards process, we can actually fix some of the potential problems with the process and possibly accelerate CSS development.
I’d add that vendor prefixes work very well with a steady diet of progressive enhancement. You, as a developer, are not bound by law to make every element on every page look exactly the same in every browser. The less tied-down each of us are, the faster all of us can move.
Version 0.2 just launched, and it be impressive:
Inspired by Apple’s Automator application, Fake looks like a combination of Safari and Automator and allows you to run (and re-run) “fake” interactions with the web.
Power Users will love Fake for automating tedious web tasks like filling out lengthy forms and capturing screenshots. Developers can use Fake for graphically configuring automated tests for their webapps, including assertions.
Like Automator and Safari got married and made the most beautiful baby. This is already The Best Thing.
A pretty, usable, interface for managing a “launch list” that is, a list of tasks, tests, and functions that must be run/checked to launch a given project on the web or otherwise.
A little detail into the workings of Safari 5′s biggest new feature.
Unveiled by Cabel Sasser on stage at WWDC today, this is already hot shit:
When you install Coda Notes, you’ll get a new button in your toolbar. Click it to see all our annotation tools, built right into Safari. Draw some notes on your favorite website. Communicate changes, ideas, concepts, or problems. Then, when you’re done, hit the Send Notes button and the whole page flips over as a postcard.
Hey. What're you doing all the way down here? You get lost? Just looking around? Cool. I like you.