On his birthday, John Resig (creator of jQuery) has given a present to developers by releasing Processing.js. This is a Javascript port of the Processing Visualization Language and a first step towards Javascript being a rival to Flash for online graphics content. His blog post contains an excellent writeup with many demos.” (Slashdot)
John Resig just pushed Javascript a bit closer as a competitor of Flash. From the comments:
Could canvas & javascript together could ever approach the render and execution performance of Flash? Why not? Flash == Software renderer. Canvas == Software renderer. Actionscript == ECMAScript engine. Javascript == ECMAScript engine. Hell, once FireFox is on the Tamarin engine, the two platforms will be practically the same!
John Resig wrote before about this browser scripting “revolution” with the Tamarin engine. What’s Apple doing? I won’t worry about Microsoft, they are not even using their own Silverlight.
For the rest this seems to me a welcome development.
Might we see this visualization soon too in jQuery and WordPress?
