Jonathan Verrecchia's blog. Learning WebGL. A year ago, at a biggest-ever, record-breaking HTML5 Meetup in San Francisco all about WebGL, I predicted we were a tipping point; I think I was right.
Let’s take a look at 2014, a banner year for 3D on the web! A Year of Great Content John Cale and Liam Young’s City of Drones brought together experiments in music and architecture; Isaac Cohen continued to blow minds with visualizations like Weird Kids and Webby; Google’s A Spacecraft for All chronicled the 36-year journey of the ISEE-3 space probe; and SKAZKA showed us an alternate world created by The Mill and powered by Goo. A Year of Killer Apps In 2014, WebGL made its mark– an indelible impression– on advertising, e-commerce, music, news and engineering. A Year of Pro Tools Goo, Verold, Turbulenz and PlayCanvas all made great strides with their WebGL engines and development environments. A Year of Gaming WebGL is definitely up to the challenge of creating high-quality MMOs. A Year of Virtual Reality A Year of Ubiquity. Learning Three.js. Mozilla Developer Network. JavaScript is a programming language that allows you to implement complex things on web pages.
Every time a web page does more than just sit there and display static information for you to look at — displaying timely content updates, or interactive maps, or animated 2D/3D graphics, or scrolling video jukeboxes, and so on — you can bet that JavaScript is probably involved. Learning pathway JavaScript is arguably more difficult to learn than related technologies such as HTML and CSS. Before attempting to learn JavaScript, you are strongly advised to get familiar with at least these two technologies first, and perhaps others as well. Start by working through the following modules: Having previous experience with other programming languages might also help. After getting familiar with the basics of JavaScript, you should be in a position to learn about more advanced topics, for example: Modules This topic contains the following modules, in a suggested order for working through them.
See also. jQuery & JavaScript Articles For The Community. jQuery Proven Performance Tips And Tricks (Slides) Thanks to everyone that attended the jQuery London and London Web Standards meetups this month.
As requested, here are the slides from my talks including links to all of the jsPerf tests embedded for each section. Summary In case you missed the talk, the main takeaway from it was the importance of performance-testing your JavaScript and jQuery code (and appreciating performance gotchas you can keep in mind when writing code that uses jQuery). I feel that this is an area developers can significantly benefit from investigating further. If you haven't been using it, jsPerf.comis the bizness, so check it out. From the feedback so far it looks like the majority of the audience found the content useful, so please feel free to share the slides if you think they can assist other developers. Thanks I'd like to extend my thanks to Adam Sontag, JD Dalton, Mathias Bynens, Andree Hansson and others for helping tech review the slides and tests.
Until next time, g'luck with your projects! Addy. The 11 JavaScript Mistakes you’re Making.