Jade, Smokescreen, Drawing with HTML5
Jade
TJ Holowaychuk announced a new project yesterday called Jade — a new template engine for node that focuses on readability, error handling, and performance.
It looks like this:
!!! 5
html(lang="en")
head
title= pageTitle
:javascript
| if (foo) {
| bar()
| }
body
h1 Jade - node template engine
#container
- if (youAreUsingJade)
p You are amazing
- else
p Get on it!
TJ wanted to improve on Haml syntax, and felt like existing template engines were hard to debug. His post refers to Jade as a Haml killer, which should garner it some attention.
The guts of Jade are the tokenizer, which generates tokens complete with line number for detailed debugging. You can have a read through the source in jade.js.
Smokescreen
Smokescreen promises to translate Flash to HTML and will be open source at some point in the near future. I don’t know if they’re involved with Gordon, but they appear to be pitching it at designers who won’t want to migrate away from Adobe’s creative tools.
Drawing with JavaScript in HTML5 vs ActionScript 3 in Flash
Drawing with JavaScript in HTML5 vs ActionScript 3 in Flash by William Malone demonstrates creating a logo with JavaScript and the canvas tag, then compares it to ActionScript 3.
The code examples are side by side, so you can see how similar they are which is interesting if you’re a hardcore JavaScript anti-Flash cheerleader but have never actually worked with ActionScript.
