Dart News & Updates

dart-html5-samples is a collection of HTML5 samples written in Dart. Most of them were ported from HTML5 Rocks . I first blogged about dart-html5-samples about three months ago. Since then, a ton of cool, new HTML5 samples have been ported to Dart, and we've updated all the samples for M2 ! Here is the current list of samples: A Beginner's Guide to Using the Application Cache New! High DPI Canvas New! Image Filters with Canvas New! Native HTML5 Drag and Drop Reading Files in JavaScript Using the File APIs Exploring the FileSystem APIs Exploring the FileSystem APIs: Web-based Terminal New! A Simple Trip Meter Using the Geolocation API New! A Simple ToDo List Using HTML5 IndexedDB Local Storage Basics New! Using the Notifications API Pointer Lock And First Person Shooter Controls New! Leaner, Meaner, Faster Animations with requestAnimationFrame HTML5 Video Getting Started with the Web Audio API WebGL New! WebSockets There are a couple samples th...

Google engineer  Gilad Bracha  spoke at  HTML5 Dev Conf  in October. His talk  is now available on YouTube. Watch Gilad speak about mirrors and reflection, mixins, asynchronous programming and the future of Dart. As always, we invite you to join our  Dart mailing list , ask questions on  Stack Overflow , or file feature requests on  dartbug.com .

If you’ve been using HTML5 for a while, you’ve probably seen HTML5 Rocks . However, it’s not always clear how to translate these samples into Dart. To fix this, we’ve started a new project called dart-html5-samples , where we’ve started porting the HTML5 Rocks samples. We’ve already ported a bunch of tutorials such as: Reading Files in JavaScript Using the File APIs Native HTML5 Drag and Drop Exploring the Filesystem APIs HTML5 Video Getting Started with Web Audio API Introducing WebSockets: Bringing Sockets to the Web Using the Notifications API A Simple TODO list using HTML5 IndexedDB Leaner, Meaner, Faster Animations with requestAnimationFrame Along the way, we’ve occasionally encountered bugs in Dart. By filing these bugs on dartbug.com , we’ve not only been transparent about the process, but we've given the community a chance to vote for the features they find important. Although we’ve ported a lot of samples, many more remain. If you’d like to help out, thi...