Again using the svgweb library, so it works in both glorious native SVG (Firefox, Chrome), and fallback Flash (Explorer); performance differences (i.e. relative slowness of the flash fallback) become quite apparent with large numbers of objects.

Working on the new Active Archives multi-player. Some explorations of the different API’s / event models of:

1. ogg
2. flowplayer (flv)
3. youtube

see, live, now!

A notion of translating a “virtual” space of elements to the screen is added, with a “zoom region” … part of the stacks series…

Now online: “Klaar in vier jaar”: a Dutch-language site to accompany a book designed to help PHD students plan their studies. My first Django site, though the interface work is all Javascript.

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Going beyond a simple 1-to-1 mapping.

Stacks 101, to be continued…

Using svgweb, which allows using Firefox’s (and other browsers’) native SVG support while also providing a fallback to flash for Internet Explorer, super-cool.

Some JavaScript dives into the SVG and wraps each path element in a “spinner” callback (that repeately sets the elements “transform” attribute).

I am working on some jQuery functions to ease making object related layouts.

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MacPaint meets RSS… A proof of concept relating to several things cooking in my head at the moment like: how to make a “spatial wiki”, and incorporating “live” elements into collage-based editing tools. NB: everything is draggable (including the background to move the whole “canvas”), and texts can be resized (widths adjusted) using a not quite right resize control that appears top-right of the headline. Feed sources are semi-random at the moment (some belgian news sources + BBC & Google News), images come from either Flickr or Getty. And nothing is deletable! So embrace the randomness.

The CGI’s to pull the text + images from the feed are Python using Feedparser and some quick and dirty regex tweaking of the Flickr feed to pull out a small sized image URL.

RUN THE DEMO
VIEW THE CODE

Here a proof of concept for a future teaching assignment (ok ok, also my own “itch” ;)… Build your own media player. Here PyGame is used to make a simple frameless window (which because of the black background *appears* to blend into my mostly black desktop image)… Also, the code makes use of Fabien Devaux’s lightweight python mplayer wrapper (that wraps a python class/object around mplayer’s “slave” mode).
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