A slightly paraphrased account of the creation of a 20% project at Google, and an illustration of why I love working there:
Dan: I want you to write a wrapper for VML, SVG and Canvas
Glen: Let me handle this, 99
Dan: Sorry, Max
Glen: As I was saying, I want to write a wrapper for VML and Canvas
Erik: Good thinking, Max
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Glen: How about *this*?
Erik: Just make it emulate the Canvas API in IE - all the other browsers support it anyway.
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Glen: How about *this messy hodgepodge that sort of works*?
Erik: You young whippersnapper! I'll show you how it's done!
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Erik: How about *this*?
Glen: Ooooohh!
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Glen: Now I made it do images, hooray for me!
Erik: Except they don't work
Glen: Berrrrrrr
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Emil: Hey world, look what I've been working on! Canvas for IE!
Erik and Glen: !! Join our secret project !!
Emil: Tally ho!
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Erik: Look, I made it better!
Emil: Look, I made it even better!
Erik: Look, I made it even more better!
Emil: Look, I made it even more super better!
Glen: ... I broke it
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Glen: Dearest engineering director Linus, look, we made bright shiny things!
Linus: K-Rad, doodz. Tell DiBona
Glen: Chris, look, we made bright shiny things!
DiBona: Open source!
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Erik, Emil, Glen: Hello World, please enjoy ExplorerCanvas, we hope you find extra tasty uses for a what is now a cross-browser (Firefox, Safari, Opera 9, IE) drawing API.
To start you off, bodytag is hosting one of the included demos.
[Updated because I forgot about Dan]
6 comments:
Greeat work Glen, both yours and Erik's.
Is there more than one Erik in this picture? It seems to me that Emil and Erik have been running WebFX together for a long time, but by this account Emil and Erik were each working on their own implementations of canvas for IE (Erik's being the !!secret project!!) before you merged your efforts... If that were true, it would be quite amazing that they didn't know about each other's work beforehand!
I think it's because Emil and Erik were so busy being so happy that they're made out of delicious icecream that they forgot to tell each other what they were doing.
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If only all sacks were as lazy as you, we would have wet and dirty cheerleader robots and other amazing inventions from the future.
Great Work Glen.
Just curious to see your next project at Google!
Good work, I've been playing with Emils chart object and getting it to work with the excanvas script.
Just one thing, it never prints correctly in IE. No canvas content is printed. Any ideas?
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