Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
The Theora project needs someone knowledgeable in the inline assembler syntax used in the Microsoft Visual C++ toolset. Theora has some assembler portions written using the GNU assembler syntax. Some way of having these same optimizations working when building the library with the Microsoft toolset would be very useful. more →
Cleaning up my hard drive I came across some old libraries I'd written. One of them was a simple set of parser combinators written in Javascript. I put it in a git repository in case they prove useful to someone: git clone git://github.com/doublec/jsparse.git more →
Update 2007-10-01: Patch 5 for the video element support can run this SVG demo. Binaries and SVG source available here. Vladimir Vukicevic ported a Silverlight demo to SVG. The photos.svg file runs in Firefox and you can move, resize and rotate the photo's using a nice interface. It demonstrates that the types of things that Silverlight is being used for... more →
smltojs is a compiler from Standard ML to Javascript. According to the page it has support for all of Standard ML. Since the reference implementation of Ecmascript 4 is written in Standard ML it would be interesting to see if it can be built using this compiler. That would provide an es4 implementation that runs in the browser based off... more →
Version 5 of the patch to add Video element support to Firefox is up. This version rewrites a lot of the code to match the pseudocode in the WHATWG specification. As well as bug fixes it contains support for the 'autoplay' attribute and loads the first frame of the video when the element is first displayed. This version also runs... more →