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You may have already seen the Homer and George Bush in CSS demos. What you may not have seen is exactly how they’re put together… See how Homer is done, by the magic of jQuery.

Edit: well, that was short lived!

The real question here is why someone would have made a purple hat with a leopard print band, and not put a feather in it!?

They are indeed. My beta invite to Lovely Charts turned up today, and I have to say it’s about as awesome as I had hoped. Proper Visio-esque drag-and-drop chart, wireframe, and network diagram generation all within the browser. Yes it’s still beta (there’s no print, for example) but it’s really rather fine.

OK. Doug’s just pointed me at another feature of the new MultiMap site… Check out the hybrid mode (move your mouse over the map). Now that is really rather nice.

Who says you need Flash? Arkanoid entirely in Javascript. Mint

They’ve been lagging behind for a while, but multimap have just launched a new site (click the link on the top left). Much improved. Much much improved. I haven’t had a chance to play much yet, but it does look a whole heap better. And the maps are much clearer too - compared to google maps the old ones looked appalling, so although on aesthetic it’s a really important move.

Light switch. I think we all knew this was coming….

Just in case you didn’t know about it… If you’re doing /anything/ with Javascript you really really need to install Firebug. It is truly awesome.

Like an ex-smoker or a born again Christian I’ve started to get quite boring about Javascript. Having complained bitterly when forced to use it and actively avoided it wherever possible I had an epiphany about a month back, and am now convinced that the world’s problems are all solvable with the power of MochiKit. To be fair, my first real use of Javascript was as the embedded language within the Netscape LiveWire application server that came with Enterprise Server, so you can understand why I started out hating it. Things have moved on, and libraries like MochiKit have made some ludicrous things possible.

That said, one of the limitations of MochiKit are the animations. There is a lot to be said that that’s probably a good thing, but with things like script.aculo.us floating around MochiKit really needed some good and well documented animation stuff. MochiKit.Visual is on its way there, but MochiKit.Animator is another step further again. That fisheye demo is a thing to behold!