jQuery Spritely

jQuery.spritely is a jQuery plugin created by Artlogic for creating dynamic character and background animation in pure HTML and JavaScript. It's a simple, light-weight plugin with a few simple methods for creating animated sprites such as the birds you see on this page, and dynamic scrolling backgrounds.

 

You can use it on any html web page, and any part of the page can interact with a sprite (click anywhere on this page and wait and you'll see what we mean).

 

Spritely has the following great advantages

• it's a great alternative to Flash if your desired platform does not support it (check out this page on an iPhone!).
• it's light-weight so you can do fill the whole window with movement without draining bandwidth.
• it is supported on the major modern browsers, including Safari on the iPhone and iPad.
• animated objects can also fly above the text of a web page, or you could animate a background, without affecting other elements on the page.
• you should be able to make fully accessible web pages in pure html and javascript without any problem

 

Can anybody use Spritely?

Yes - you're free to use spritely without charge as long as you comply with the the license. jQuery.spritely is released under Dual the same license as jQuery, e.g.:

 

"Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses."

jQuery.spritely is created and maintained by Artlogic Media Ltd. If you would like us to sprite up your website, feel free to contact us for an estimate: http://www.artlogic.net/contactus/.

 

We hope you'll enjoy using Spritely.

 

Employment opportunity

Artlogic (London, UK) are currently looking for a permanant, full-time, Junior Web Developer with jQuery experience. If you'd be interested in joining our team, please visit our vacancies page to learn more.

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Google - public data explorer

​Data visualizations for a changing world

​The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.

Explore the data

Students, journalists, policy makers and everyone else can play with the tool to create visualizations of public data, link to them, or embed them in their own webpages. Embedded charts and links can update automatically so you’re always sharing the latest available data. Here’s an example of an embedded visualization:

​This chart correlates life expectancy and number of children per woman for most economies of the world. The bubble sizes show population, and the colors represent different regions of the world. You can also click on the play button to see data change over time. The Explore data link in the bottom right corner brings you to the explore tool that lets you play with the data by highlighting regions, switching variables, or even adjusting the scale. Learn more by visiting our FAQ and checking out our tutorial.

​Publish and discuss

​This is a Google Labs project, which means it's work in progress. We are making it available now to gather feedback, but also to get in contact with public data providers who want to try publishing some data on this new platform. If you have data that deserves a broader audience, please tell us about it.

More examples

	In the 1960's, families were big and life expectancy was low. Since then, families have gotten smaller, and life expectancy longer, in most countries. Data from: World Development Indicators - World Bank
	US unemployment started rising in 2008 Data from: Unemployment in the U.S. - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
	Some California counties have seen a huge increase in personal income per capita since 1969 Data from: GDP and Personal income of the U.S. - U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
	STD's change since 1984 Data from: Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the U.S. - CDC/NCHHSTP
	Unemployment rate for men has caught up with unemployment rate for women in the European Union Data from: Unemployment by sex and age - Eurostat

List of all available datasets

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BBC News - Mapping the growth of the internet

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SuperPower: a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet.

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Popular Search Engines in the 90’s: Then and Now

In the heydays of the internet – when Google wasn’t the only search engine people used to seek information on the web – web surfers (I bet you haven’t heard that term in a while) had several options for finding what they needed on the net.

This article harks back to the days of AltaVista, HotBot, and when Ask was still Ask Jeeves. You’ll see how the web designs of ubiquitous search engines of the past have evolved through time. Put your nostalgia hats on as we travel back to the ancient times of the internet!

HotBot

1997

1999

2009

Excite

1996

1998

2009

WebCrawler

1996

1998

2009

Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com)

1999

2009

Yahoo!

1996

2009

The future

Google

1998

2009

Dogpile

1998

2009

AltaVista

1998

2009

Lycos

1996

1998

2009

MSN Search (now Bing)

1999

2009

AOL Search

1999

2009

Infoseek (now Go.com)

1997

2009

Netscape Search

1999

2009

MetaCrawler

1996

1998

2009

All the Web

1999

2009

What was your favorite search engine (before Google)? How did search engines affect you in the early days of the web? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments.

* Screenshots courtesy of the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

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Microsoft demos cross-platform game on Xbox, Windows, and Windows Phone 7

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Microsoft demos cross-platform game on Xbox, Windows, and Windows Phone 7

Microsoft has long hinted at somehow unifying games across its multiple platforms. Now it appears the company is ready to deliver. A recent demonstration at TechEd Middle East shows a single Indiana Jones game that can run on Windows Phone 7 Series, Windows, and the Xbox 360. We have the full video below (via Engadget).

Cross-platform game releases aren’t anything new, but this demonstration differs by showing us a single game that’s developed in Visual Studio, and can share 90 percent of its code across the three platforms. The remaining 10 percent of code concerns the unique changes that need to be made for each platform: Touch-screen and accelerometer support on Windows Phone, gamepad support on the Xbox, and keyboard and mouse support on Windows.

Also significant is the ability to save the game on one platform and resume your progress in the exact spot on another.

In more ways than one, Microsoft is showing off the holy grail of cross-platform game development. Instead of picking and choosing individual platforms, game developers will be able to work on a single project that will work on all of Microsoft’s current platforms. It’s also a major feature that Microsoft will be able to lord over Apple and Google’s development platforms.

[YouTube Video]

Tags: Windows Phone 7 Series, xbox 360

Companies: microsoft

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