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TagCanvas 1.6
Yes, another version of TagCanvas just a week after the last one. This time I've added some important and useful features, so I can recommend trying it out. The new files are on the TagCanvas page, as usual.
The biggest change in this version is the new "weighted" mode. Tag clouds usually weight the tags somehow to show which are the most popular tags, or the most widely used. TagCanvas can now use the size of the text in the tag cloud to apply a weight to each tag, and display it by font size, colour or both.
I've added a new TagCanvas with weighted tags page to show how it works and how to use it.
TagCanvas 1.5
This new version of TagCanvas doesn't have any new options or features to get excited about, but there have been some quite large internal changes to allow multiple instances to run on a page.
If you only want to run one cloud on a page, then this update will not make a lot of difference. Updated files are on the TagCanvas page.
SVGGraph 2.1
I have updated SVGGraph with three new graph types: StackedBarGraph, GroupedBarGraph and MultiLineGraph. To make it a bit easier to see how each type of graph works I've split the SVGGraph page up - details of the new graph types are on the bar graphs and line and scatter graphs pages.
Snow
Just in case you don't have snow falling outside your window, I've made a simple Javascript file that adds falling snow to a page. It uses the canvas element which means that its performance varies between browsers a bit, but it's just a bit of fun. Take a look at the snow page to see it in action.
TagCanvas 1.4.2
This is a very minor update to TagCanvas, changing a couple of functions to support the Internet Explorer 9 beta's updated way of handling events. The tag animation sometimes locks up completely, but I'll put that down to IE9 still being in beta - hopefully the finished product will have ironed out that kind of thing.
I've been pleasantly surprised by IE9. Not only does it support the canvas element, but SVG is now handled by the browser without the need for a plugin.
The updated stand alone and jQuery plugin files are available from the TagCanvas page.