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HTML5 WebSockets, defines a full-duplex communication channel that operates through a single socket over the web. WebSocket is not just another incremental enhancement to conventional HTTP communications, it represents a large advance, especially for real-time, event driven web applications.

Normally when a browser visits a web page, an HTTP request is sent to the web server that hosts that page. The web server acknowledges this request and sends back the response. In many cases—for example, for stock prices, news reports, ticket sales, traffic patterns, medical device readings, and so on—the response could be stale by the time the browser renders the page.

Its been a while since my last post, had been busy with office work…sigh!!!

Anyways, I was poking around the web to come up with interesting water simulation techniques, as you could see in many games these days, so I did find a reference to an old C-based technique, after a little refinement, what I have is a water simulation which uses a very old algorithm based on two heightmaps.

As always it’s a grid based animation which divides the screen into a mesh(more slices better this simulation looks), I use a jagged array in c# to do this (load it with a texture of 640 X 480 dimension ), to animate I use another array of same dimensions, now to make everything move I kinda do something like this

After ages of constantly being one of the most used browsers as well as a serious pain in Butt!!! IE is finally about to mature into something good and perhaps a useful software, with its support to most of the standards being used today, IE will join back the league of web 3.0 browsers, hopefully very soon

So I was going through various experiments done with Canvas and came across a great example on Liquid Particle physics simulation, which amazingly is written in JavaScript and Canvas element, I was so mesmerized by the application that I had to port it to SilverLight, using WritableBitmap.

Here is another of many JavaScript based image carousels, I had seen many similar to these made in SilverLight and Flash, I came across a wonderful carousel made in SilverLight some time back which was very fluid in behavior and could easily be customized and configured to take various shape and form.

I have managed to port it to JavaScript, it works best on chrome or FF, hope this would be fun to play with.