From a LinkedIn post earlier today I found out about a working Rubik’s cube built by South African developer Zukisani Zamela with HTML5 and THREE.js (possibly inspired by the cube seen in this tutuorial). Try it out here.

While it needs some refinement it does work and is a good example of the growing power of browsers . . . and developer ingenuity . . . today. Ernő Rubik would be proud.

Recently received a review copy of Packt Publishing’s Instant jQuery 2.0 Table Manipulation How-to book. Its stated purpose is to help coders with the following tasks:

• Mark up your code to use jQuery selectors effectively
• Learn jQuery to drastically simplify tasks that would be much more difficult in plain old JavaScript
• Build interactivity into your pages without reloading the page or calling back to the server
• Take advantage of powerful AJAX techniques that allow you to communicate with the server without refreshing the page
• Use simple jQuery functions to enhance your HTML tables

Okay, I just did my first “cufón vs. @font-face” comparison and cufón ended up looking way better. These tests are from my online resume where I have been using cufón for quite some time to display the headers in the Kon Tiki Kona font (you won’t be able to tell the difference unless you are viewing this article on its own; if you view it from the front page of the blog both images will appear squished):

@font-face Test

cufón Test

Conclusion

Unless I can find a way to get lettering displayed with the CSS @font-face property to turn up clearer I may be forced to stick with cufón for now.