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John Dyer
Personal blog · johndyer.nameprogrammingweb
John Dyer's personal blog at johndyer.name covers programming and web. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts by a developer about browser-based JavaScript demos, such as a canvas-based Photoshop-style color picker and an HTML5 video player that syncs subtitles and slides. Commenters link them as examples of these projects.
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Theology, Technology, Society
What Hacker News says?
Nice! I've been using this one: http://johndyer.name/post/2007/09/PhotoShop-like-JavaScript-... but yours has a few more options. One thing I did notice though is that it's almost unusably slow in FF3.6 unlike Safari 5 or Chrome 7 where it's fine.
Comment linking /post/2007/09/PhotoShop-like-JavaScript-Color-Picker.aspx
on “Show HN: My <canvas>-based, Photoshop-esque JavaScript color picker”Submitted Status of HTML5 fullscreen APIs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionInteresting. I must have missed the timeupdate events. Seems someone has already implemented a nice player with sync'ing subtitles and slides: http://johndyer.name/post/HTML5-Video-Player-with-Slides-and... This is cool! Thanks for the update!
Comment linking /post/HTML5-Video-Player-with-Slides-and-Transcript.aspx
on “Adobe Acknowledges Flash Problem in Chrome Notebooks”Submitted Coloring Hebrew Vowels and Accents in HTML/CSS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Tricks: 3D Panorama as a story · 2 points
HN discussion