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TagCanvas 1.8
This is another one of those releases where it doesn't look like much has changed. I've added a new option called "frontSelect" which will disable the selection of tags that are on the far side of the cloud, but that's not the most interesting change.
The other, larger change is the new "txtOpt" option, which is turned on by default. This draws each text tag to its own canvas at the start of the script, then uses this canvas as an image instead of redrawing the text on each frame of the animation. It doesn't work in IE versions up to 8 because Explorer Canvas has trouble with images, but in all the other browsers it causes a real improvement in performance.
You can find the updated files on the TagCanvas page.
March 1.0
March? What's that? It's the stupid name I've given to my Javascript canvas clock script now that I've converted it into something usable.
The full details of what it does and how you can do things with it is on the new March page.
TagCanvas 1.7.1
Just a quick update to TagCanvas, this time fixing a bug that can cause an error message to appear in the console on Firefox. The error in question actually ends the click event handler just before it would have given up anyway, so it wouldn't change anything noticable, but this version cleans it up.
The updated files are on the TagCanvas page.
Glowspot glowing link script
I've been playing about with canvases again, and this time I have produced
a script that attempts to mimic the glowing effect on Chrome's tabs when
you hover your mouse cursor over them. It's not quite the same, but it is
a bit of fun and gave me a chance to try out the toDataURL
function.
Take a look at the new Glowspot page for full details.
SVGGraph's new axis options
The new options in version 2.3 are not very complicated, but I'm not very good at explaining them either. To make things clearer, I've created a page full of examples - the axis and grid options page.
I apologise in advance for the hideous colour scheme on some of the bars in the examples.