Processing Visualization Language Ported To Javascript

Manfre writes "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."

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Re:'polished turd'

[teknopurge]

Of course, if you're referring to "my Flash animations move faster than my DHTML animation", that's just plain user-error. The Flash animations work better because Flash Studio works out all the timings of the motions for you. If you Actionscripted your motions, they'd come out about the same as they would in Javascript. (And being nearly the same language, it's possible to try the same motion code in both.) Completely and utterly false.

JS interpreters are not optimized to do image manipulation, DOM updates, etc. Now this isn't to say they aren't moving in that direction, but as of now they are atrocious at these tasks.

Flash is a completely separate environment from the browser, is vector based and inherently performs animation better. Right now it's always faster(CPU %) to do an animation in Flash then it is to do the same animation in JS.

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