Well, those folks on webkit dev team sure are moving fast. WebGL (OpenGL for web, i.e. fancy 3d graphics in your browser) spec hasn’t even been finished yet, as far as I know, and they already have the stuff working in the latest webkit builds. The good news about this is of course that as WebGL becomes more widely adopted, we’re going to see some interesting uses of 3D graphics for interfaces on the web. Of course the flipside of that is there’s a good chance that suddenly dozens of sites will spring up with cheesy cubes or spheres rotating with blinking colours or something.
Hopefully most uses of WebGL will be more sophisticated than that
WebGL itself is actually pretty hardcore in comparison to stuff like HTML and JavaScript. It’s a true, honest-to-god programming language. Which means that even simple things take a substantial amount of code. Heck, even initializing the damn thing takes a whole function. On the other hand, it’s also a very well established API (more specifically the OpenGL ES 2.0 API on which WebGL is based on) with plenty of resources, tutorials and websites that cover it from A to Z. So if you’re willing to roll up your sleeves and dig into it you’ll be making spinning cubes with blinking colours in no time.
For all the details and some example check out the WebKit blog.
Dell is about to reveal the skinny on its newest laptop, Adamo XPS, next Thursday, Oct. 22. Adamo is Dell’s top of the line, trying to compete with Apple, sexy line of laptops. Well actually, so far it’s been only one laptop, but now it’s gonna be a line. Apparently the XPS version is going …
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If you haven’t noticed, multi-touch is all the rage these days. From iPhone’s slick interface and gestures, to all the laptops and netbooks that are trying to get in on the game, not to mention Microsoft’s “subtle” approach to the issue with their Surface idea. Then there’s also multi-touch for desktops, and as always the …
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The never-tiring folks at Mozilla are already hard at work on implementing multitouch events in Firefox. Felipe Gomes has posted a short demonstration of very cool multitouch capabilities via a few simple use cases. Here is the clip and a few words from the man himself.
Multitouch on Firefox from Felipe on Vimeo.
We’re working on exposing …
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This very useful tip was sent by Harsha Kotcherlakota to Lifehacker.com.
The idea is to set up tabs for Gmail and Google reader that will always be open, but with a few extensions will have minimal impact on the interface while providing the information relevant to each app (site). For a full guide see the link …
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This is a bit of an old story but it’s just so amazing and mind-blowing and I wanted to post it. James May, from Top Gear, took a flight on a U2 spy plane.
The Lockheed U-2 is a wonder of engineering. It’s intended for very high-altitude flights – 70,000 feet (about 21.3km). The design of …
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Wow, I haven’t heard anything about this but I was checking out the Rogers site and they are now selling HTC Dream and Magic (the Android phones) for $79.99 with a 3-year contract. It started out at $149.99 only a couple of months ago, and now it’s almost half the price. I’ve been thinking of …
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