Nice execution but as always I wonder why the author preferred canvas over SVG. Nothing wrong with canvas but aren't those tabs a perfect example of a vector graphic?
Nice. This is one of those things that once you see it you wonder how it got to be 2010 without anybody having done it yet.
Here are a few of my initial observations:
- Why justify the notes? It's common to use spacing as an informal way of indicating timing, so if you auto-justify everything you make that impossible.
- Are Chords on the way?
- Are you planning to write an importer for the 12 zillion existing tabs in ASCII format? I imagine most of them are parseable.
In the comments of his most recent blog post, the author mentions support for parsing ASCII tabs will be left to third-parties, with rendering using his library.
Very neat stuff. I've actually been working on a site that basically does tab collaboration (kinda like Github for music/tabs) and have been pondering how to do something like this.
It'd be pretty cool if somehow you could incorporate a means of playing that tab as well but I can't think of how to do that without flash. I suppose time signatures would be important to have as well.
Playing is kind of possible today with some hacks, though you would need time signatures on the tab.
I think we're going to move towards the browser as a music composition tool soon, and I can't wait. Some people at Mozilla are working on an awesome audio data api spec, check out their demos/videos: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API
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http://0xfe.blogspot.com/2010/06/fonts-tablature-svg-and-dem...
Here are a few of my initial observations:
- Why justify the notes? It's common to use spacing as an informal way of indicating timing, so if you auto-justify everything you make that impossible.
- Are Chords on the way?
- Are you planning to write an importer for the 12 zillion existing tabs in ASCII format? I imagine most of them are parseable.
http://0xfe.blogspot.com/2010/06/fonts-tablature-svg-and-dem...
It'd be pretty cool if somehow you could incorporate a means of playing that tab as well but I can't think of how to do that without flash. I suppose time signatures would be important to have as well.
I think we're going to move towards the browser as a music composition tool soon, and I can't wait. Some people at Mozilla are working on an awesome audio data api spec, check out their demos/videos: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API