Gestures, Scopeleaks, Wink, JLS, JavaScript Blogs
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android
iOS
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The Node tutorials will continue next week, in the meantime I have a backlog of news from our Twitter friends to catch up with.
Gestures
When I was writing gesture event support for the Let’s Make a Framework series, quite a few readers got in touch to say gesture recognition had been a sticking point for them during development of web-based iOS or Android apps. Tait Brown, who made my favourite jQuery UI theme Aristo, has now made Gestures which is a proof-of-concept library for gesture recognition.
The Gesture demo shows how the library works — gestures are recognised as shapes. At the moment this is based on the $1 Unistroke Recognizer in JavaScript.
I’m hoping Tait can add a simple multitouch API and release Gestures as a library soon.
scopeleaks.js
scopeleaks.js by Rui Lopes is a browser and CommonJS module for detecting global variable leaks. Once loaded with a script tag or through a require, the global variable state can be recorded and analysed:
var snapshot = scopeleaks.snapshot();
scopeleaks.leaks(snapshot);
It’s a simple library but might be useful for giving scripts a once-over before release.
A similar project is detect-global by Juriy Zaytsev (kangax).
Wink 1.2.3
Jérôme Giraud sent me a note that Wink 1.2.3 has been released, which adds support for Android (2.2, 2.3) devices. Jérôme wrote a Wink tutorial for DailyJS back in September.
JavaLikeScript
JavaLikeScript, or jls, is an interesting framework based on Prototype that runs on NSPR and SpiderMonkey for Windows and Linux. It includes a GUI library, CommonJS modules, file system access, a unit testing framework, and a network library.
The author hasn’t yet released the native source code yet, but it looks like he’s just preparing the build chain and documentation before releasing it. The API documentation gives an overview of the APIs if you’d like to dig a little deeper.
ecmazing JavaScript Blogs
Šime Vidas wrote in to let us know about ecmazing JavaScript Blogs, a JavaScript blog viewer. It feels very fast and makes it easy to quickly switch between blogs. Of course, most of those blogs are in my news reader, but I thought the fact it’s all client-side might interest readers who are front-end developers.
