[Sugar-devel] Web activity example that uses html5 canvas

Manuel Quiñones manuq at laptop.org
Tue Apr 30 07:58:50 EDT 2013


Should work on other browsers now:

http://manuq.github.io/clockjs/

2013/4/30 Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org>:
> 2013/4/30 James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:42:40PM -0300, Manuel Qui?ones wrote:
>> > 2013/4/29 James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>:
>> > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:23:24PM -0300, Manuel Qui?ones wrote:
>> > >> And here a live demo:
>> > >>
>> > >> http://manuq.github.io/clockjs/activity.html
>> > >
>> > > Should this work if opened on Firefox 20.0 on Ubuntu 12.10?
>> > >
>> > > (It shows a clock face, but no arms.)
>> >
>> > It is because of requestAnimationFrame.  To make it compatible with
>> > all current browsers , I could do:
>> >
>> > var requestAnimationFrame = window.requestAnimationFrame ||
>> > window.mozRequestAnimationFrame || window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame
>> > || window.msRequestAnimationFrame;
>> >
>> > I certeanly dislike doing such things for compatibility :)  If we are
>> > targetting webkit for now, and webkit has the generic one, I suppose
>> > I'll go with that.  It is just time for the other browsers to get it.
>> > What do you think?
>>
>> Tested also on an Android tablet with the Browser app, the javascript
>> console reported "Uncaught ReferenceError: requestAnimationFrame is
>> not defined".  So this is the same thing.
>>
>> I think code that might be executed in the wrong environment should at
>> least say why it won't run, rather than fail silently.
>>
>> Otherwise, add a condition when you publish a live demo: "intended to work in
>> ${browser} only".  ;-)
>
> Thanks for your advice.  This should be considered when writting web
> activities then.
>
>> > Here are links for the mozilla page of the feature, and w3 the specification:
>> >
>> > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM/window.requestAnimationFrame
>> > http://www.w3.org/TR/animation-timing/#requestAnimationFrame
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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