Talk given at The Rich Web Experience 2008. Check out blog for more demos, and sample code.
I hate images. Not pictures or icons, mind you, but user interface graphics. I think that small gradient PNGs that web developers set to repeat are the spacer gifs of today. Images are hard to change, and slower to download.
8. A better way (without images)
Images Canvas
diff / merge not possible possible
changeability hard easy
client download large small
client render speed fast slow
57. • no native support today
• no word from Microsoft on this changing
58. Explorer Canvas
• Adapter API, canvas to VML
• No support for:
• globalComposition
• radialGradients
• drawImage with canvas
• Inserting canvas element via innerHTML
requires document.createElement('canvas')
59. Browser Plugin developed by..
Mozilla??
• Leave No Browser Behind
• ActiveX plugin that implements canvas
60. quot;I don't think iPhone brings anything new to
the table.
It has a great user experience, but that's all.quot;
Manjit Singh, CIO at Chiquita Brands International Inc.