On 12-09-24 9:17 PM, Colin Putney wrote:

There are a few things that
could be really useful—e.g., a DAV server and some way of storing
Javascript within the image—but I can't really see doing anything to
eliminate the need to write Javascript.

And abstracting over the JavaScript doesn't release a person from the obligation of already knowing the JavaScript that you're abstracting over either. I think I'd have to agree with you that there is no blanket way of abstracting over it so that you're saving effort in all situations. There are some situations where Lukas's work in Scriptaclous was impressive in that you'd write a class and then pop, pop, pop add attributes and you're on your way. I remember translating an AJAX Hacks book example to his Scriptaculous and being impressed by the brevity.

At STIC Eric Clayberg was using HTML5 2D canvas examples incidental to his Dart presentation. Afterward I found a library called jCanvas[1] that is a plugin for jQuery. I'd like to make some classes abstract over specs for shapes:

$("canvas").drawRect({
  fillStyle: "#000",
  x: 50, y: 50,
  width: 200,
  height: 100,
  fromCenter: false
});

would become something similar to one of Lukas's classes with a few attributes. And then I'd like to code Breakout [2]. That'd be nifty.

Chris

[1] http://calebevans.me/projects/jcanvas/index.php
[2] http://billmill.org/static/canvastutorial/index.html