Tweet this - a bookmarklet to post URL to Twitter

This is my first bookmarklet.
The bookmarklet posts the current page's title and URL to Twitter. I guess many of similar bookmarklets would be found somewhere though.

Tweet this

Drag & drop the link above to your browser's bookmark toolbar.
Its code is referred to delicous's bookmarklet.

javascript:(function(){f='http://twitter.com/home?status='+encodeURIComponent(document.title+' '+window.location.href+' ');a=function(){if(!window.open(f,'_blank'))location.href=f};if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent)){setTimeout(a,0)}else{a()}})()

Thanks, delicious!
I don't know the license type of the code snippet, however. ;-)
 

Incredible JavaScript+Canvas 3D demos from Japan!

Mr. Satoshi Ueyama hacked out the new era of JavaScript 3D tech by unveiling the real of Google Chrome's power. Satoshi is one of the great JavaScript hackers in Japan, and also known as gyuque listed on the article of 30 Japanese geeks you should follow on Twitter. (cached)

He has introduced the brand new JavaScript technique using Canvas for 3D on his post. Browsing with Google Chrome is strongly recommended for all demos below.

I'm sure this could be one giant leap for JavaScript user interface technologies.

Demo #1: 3D texture mapped with physical computing

This is his first demo which shows 3D textured by Canvas. You can click on the cloth to make it waved.


http://gyu.que.jp/jscloth/

Demo #2: Hatsune Miku 3D with OOP

The 3D Miku is OO-style implemented as an object which has swing() method. This means she swings green onion in her hand when swing() method is called. Click on her.


http://gyu.que.jp/jscloth/miku.html
She wears hundreds of polygons. The demo was created for Paul Bakaus, jQuery UI lib's lead, visiting Japan.

Demo #3: 3D iPod touch with environment mapping

You may find the all demos above have the same width as 480px. Yes, it is definitely same as the horizontal viewport size which iPhone and iPod touch have. Now you can see iPod touch displayed on your iPod touch by the demo #3!

It could be slightly slow on ITSELF, however, it's still cool. These demos show us that we rarely need Flash anymore on the mobile platform, right? ;)


http://gyu.que.jp/jscloth/touch.html
But the most important point of the demo is not its width. You need to see behind of it. He also implemented the reflection mapping feature on his lib.


http://gyu.que.jp/jscloth/touch.html
The all demos above are coded only by pure JavaScript using Canvas. Here are no Java, Flash, ActionScript etc. but just the Web standards.

You can see Google Chrome runs all demos much faster than any other browsers. It has a great rendering engine named Skia. CPUs are already enough fast to calculate most things, you know, and now JITs are implemented as well. But canvas renderers admit of their performance. Skia is special. Safari is also fine. Firefox, 3.0 and 3.1 JIT-ed, are seem to be slower, unfortunately. We don't have to say that IE have no capability to run these.

Gyuque runs several benchmarks to describe Skia has significant advantage on its canvas rendering engine.


http://d.hatena.ne.jp/gyuque/20090211#1234364019
The 3D JavaScript tech could be one of the killer applications of Chrome now. I guess the next generation of browsers will soon compete on Canvas performance.

Original of this post was written for my Japanese blog.
You must see more detail on gyuque's post.

The 2nd JUI Conference in Adobe MAX Japan 2009

Almost one year has been past since we held the 1st JUI conference in Tokyo. The JUI is a conference forcused into user interface techs using JavaScript. At he end of this January, we held the JUI again in Adobe MAX Japan 2009 conference as a sub conference. I think it's definitely true that Adobe is really big-hearted company. Five of JavaScript guys could talked only about JavaScript at the session which has the sub-title of "we don't need FLash any more!" in Japanese.

At first, I gave an introduction talk.

http://www.slideshare.net/kawa0117/jui-flash

JavaScript Hot Topics 2008 (Adobe MAX Edition)
#10 - 10th Anniversary of MM_SwapImage()
#9 - Shibuya.js comes to Kyoto
#8 - ECMAScript 4 failed. Now 3.1 instead.
#7 - Adobe launches Flash 10
#6 - iPhone 3G integrated with JavaScript
#5 - Many companies switching to JavaScript
#4 - Microsoft follows web standards by IE8
#3 - Varieties of JavaScript libraries
#2 - Playing .swf by JavaScript on the scene
#1 - Too Rapid JavaScript. No JIT, No Life.

The 2nd speaker was Yu Kobayashi a.k.a. yukoba who was the author of HotRuby virtual machine. His talk was about "How to implement a Flash Player."

http://www.slideshare.net/yukoba/flash-player

The next was Satoshi Ueyama a.k.a. gyuque. He also implemented another Flash Player named "JSplash" which had a trick to translate ActionScript code to JavaScript code. This pre-compiling feature gave it enough performance compared to Adobe's native Flash Player. That means we don't need flash player any more.

http://www.slideshare.net/gyuque/jsplash-adobe-max-2009

The 4th was Moriyoshi Koizumi who was one of Japanese PHP committers. He gave a talk about "JavaScript's Sound Generation" using data scheme.

http://www.slideshare.net/moriyoshi/adobe-max-japan-2009-jui-javascript

The last was Hotoshi Amano a.k.a. amachang. He always starts to develop new presentation tool before he writes slides for each conferences. Now he made it in 3D. Note that only nightly build of WebKits - at that time, now Safari 4 is available - could show his slides. His talk itself was about "DOM Performance Tuning."

http://amachang.sakura.ne.jp/misc/max/

Anyway, in the Adobe's conference, we're happy to let them know these crazy JavaScript guys're existing and working hard for the high level of techniques and user experience.

The 2nd JUI Speakers

The original post of this was written in Japanese.