Eric Bidelman

Using http/2 for App Engine Local Development

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:47:48 -0700

I’ve been using App Engine for many years to develop web apps at Google. Most of the open...

Observing your web app

Tue, 16 Aug 2016 08:00:30 -0700

TL;DR: a dozen+ examples of monitoring changes in a web application. The web has lots of APIs for...

Blink. Chrome's new rendering engine

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:15:00 -0700

Chrome is departing WebKit as its rendering engine. This is big news for web developers, so I...

Creating .webm video from getUserMedia()

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:02:31 -0700

There’s a ton of motivation for being able to record live video. One scenario: you’re...

Mashups using CORS and responseType='document'

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:17:00 -0700

I always forget that you can request a resource as a Document using XHR2. Combine this with CORS and...

Five things you didn't know the web could do

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:13:15 -0700

It’s been awhile since my last blog post. That’s because I’ve been busy writing...

Data Binding Using data-* Attributes

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:22:35 -0700

Custom data-* attributes in HTML5 are pretty rad. They’re especially handy for stashing small...

idb.filesystem.js - Bringing the HTML5 Filesystem API to More Browsers

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:57:50 -0700

The HTML5 Filesystem API is a versatile API that addresses many of the uses cases that the other...

Introducing filer.js

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:53:00 -0800

Some 1300+ lines of code, 106 tests, and a year after I first started it, I’m happy to...

Making file inputs a pleasure to look at

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:30:41 -0800

I’ve seen a lot of people ask how to 1.) apply custom styles to a <input type="file">...

Web Audio API how-to: Playing audio based on user interaction

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:59:00 -0800

One thing the Web Audio API does particularly well is play sound. Of course, this is something...

Reading .mp3 ID3 tags in JavaScript

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:29:00 -0700

For a recent project, I needed to read an .mp3’s ID3 metadata (song title, artist, year,...

My book is finally out: Using the HTML5 Filesystem API, “A...

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:14:43 -0700

My book is finally out: Using the HTML5 Filesystem API, “A True Filesystem for the Browser”

Until now, web applications have been unable to organize binary data into a hierarchy of folders. That has changed with the advent of HTML5. With this book, you’ll learn how to provide your applications with a true file system that enables them to create, read, and write files ands folders in a sandboxed section of the user’s local filesystem. Author Eric Bidelman provides several techniques and complete code examples for working with the HTML5 Filesystem API.