inercia:

Two interesting things here: first, it is based in the Actor model, and, second, they use the multiprocessing module (so it scales better than other similar frameworks)

badassjs:

Official.fm Labs just released another JavaScript audio codec, and perhaps the next biggest in usage after MP3. AAC.js is a pure JavaScript Advanced Audio Coding decoder built on Aurora.js. AAC is now one of the most widely deployed audio codecs, and such names as the iTunes Store…

gregbabula:

The Fullscreen API is fairly new with growing support but the implementation varies across browsers. Screenfull.js is a simple script from Sindre Sorhus to change that, changing:

document.fullscreenEnabled = document.fullscreenEnabled || document.mozFullScreenEnabled || document.documentElement.webkitRequestFullScreen; function requestFullscreen( element ) { if ( element.requestFullscreen ) { element.requestFullscreen(); } else if ( element.mozRequestFullScreen ) { element.mozRequestFullScreen(); } else if ( element.webkitRequestFullScreen ) { element.webkitRequestFullScreen( Element.ALLOW_KEYBOARD_INPUT ); } } if ( document.fullscreenEnabled ) { requestFullscreen( document.documentElement ); } 

to

if ( screenfull ) screenfull.request(); 

The source is on GitHub.

(Source: thechangelog)

gregbabula:

A simple (proof-of-concept) script loader that caches scripts with localStorage

basket.js is a small JavaScript library supporting localStorage caching of scripts. If script(s) have previously been saved locally, they will simply be loaded and injected into the current document. If not, they will be XHR’d in for use right away, but cached so that no additional loads are required in the future.

badassjs:

Ivan Kuckir sent in a neat library to help Flash developers move to JavaScript.

I have made a graphics library to help people move from Flash to Javascript. It is something like EaselJS, but unlike EaselJS, all the classes, methods and properties come from Flash and unlike EaselJS, it…

badassjs:

Dominik Homberger has been very busy over the last few months working on porting first, Google’s WebP image format to JS and today launching his WebM video decoder in JavaScript. No, these are not Emscripten compiled versions - these are hand ports directly from the original C++ source code….

Stellar.js claims all you need to do is add some simple data attributes to your markup, run its stellar() method, and.. you get to enjoy the latest visual effect du jour.

(Source: gregbabula)

1. http://kievii.net/