Zack Grossbart is an engineer, designer, and author. He’s a Senior Technical Staff Member and Cloud Architect at IBM. He creates the IBM cloud user experience and focuses on making complex technologies easy. Zack began loading DOS from a floppy disk when he was five years old and hasn’t stopped coding since. Zack lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife and daughter.
When my WordPress plugin had only three users, it didn’t matter much if I broke it. By the time I reached 100,000 downloads, every new update made my palms sweat.
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Paper.js, Processing.js and Raphaël are the leading libraries for drawing on the Web right now. A couple of others are up and coming, and you can always use Flash, but these three work well with HTML5 and have the widest support among browser vendors.
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The Web is just starting to use animation well. For years, animated GIFs and Flash ruled. Text moved and flashed, but it was never seamless. Animations had boxes around them like YouTube videos. HTML5 canvas changes everything about Web animation.
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Google Search likes simple, easy-to-crawl websites. You like dynamic websites that show off your work and that really pop. But search engines can’t run your JavaScript. That cool AJAX routine that loads your content is hurting your SEO.
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