Friday, August 27th, 2010
TechCrunch reports on a Googler, Paul Truong, who created an HTML5-based game for Gmail called Galactic Inbox using his 20% time: When you start it up, a little Gmail logo envelope guy pops out of a “20% Projects Lab” and starts flying. Essentially, he’s a spaceship and can shoot objects coming his way. It’s simple, Read the rest…
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Don’t be bummed it’s Monday, ‘cuse the CSS3 Song is here to cheer you up: How can you go wrong with lyrics like this: CSS3 Web animation done properly CSS3 Degrading gracefully I had a dream, an awesome dream People surfing in the park On Windows, Linux and Mac And their page load speeds were Read the rest…
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Category: Fun, Presentation
The week has been long. Much code has been written. There is much more to do, but Friday is for relaxing a little. Take some time, sit back and watch, as three fantastic videos are available for you: French: Paul Rouget of Mozilla, shows you the future Paul builds the best demos. ever. At the Read the rest…
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
How hex geeky do you feel today? Take a sec to guess the hex!
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Sit back and enjoy: The bulk of the code is just: function run() { ctx.globalCompositeOperation = “source-over”; ctx.fillStyle = “rgba(8,8,12,.65)”; ctx.fillRect( 0 , 0 , canvasW , canvasH ); ctx.globalCompositeOperation = “lighter”; mouseVX = mouseX – prevMouseX; mouseVY = mouseY – prevMouseY; prevMouseX = mouseX; prevMouseY = mouseY; var toDist = canvasW / 1.15; var Read the rest…
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Alex Girón, of CSS Beauty, has been playing with CSS3 goodness. His current experiment recreates our solar system spinning around using border-radius, transforms, and animations. The experiment runs beeeautifully on WebKit Nightly, but for some reason it lags on Chrome. Alex gives us the deatils: border-radius < View plain text > css ul.solarsystem li.sun { Read the rest…
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Slither is a Web port of the age old Snake game. Erik Johnson wrote the game, and had this to say about the project (available here on GitHub): We’ve seen a million varieties of snake/nibbles games over the years, especially in Flash; however, I haven’t come across many that are implemented using Canvas. I’ve used Read the rest…
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Nearly 4 years ago, Ben Joffe created a fun Tetris-like game called Torus that takes the classic and makes it cylindrical. He just updated the game now that browsers can power his canvas game sooo much better. Smooth falling motion Smooth left/right motion Row clear animation Slightly higher playing field Visual indication of death zone Read the rest…
Friday, April 16th, 2010
Category: Fun
On Firefox we have Vimperator and now on Chrome we have Vimium: Vi users rejoice! ;)
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Category: Fun, Showcase
, Sound
David Friedman calls is “silly”, but he has created something simple and fun in his new form of volume control that moves from whisper to shout as you change the volume. The code (which works on Firefox and Opera right now) uses different tracks for each level: < View plain text > HTML <audio id="apA" Read the rest…
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Jonas Wagner has a perfect Friday fun demo that normal mapping and phong shading in JavaScript using Canvas. Your mouse cursor becomes the light source that dynamically lights up a 3D object: Jonas discusses how his code works: The 3D effect is basically created using 2 textures. One contains the color of each pixel and Read the rest…
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Inspired by the CSS Opera Logo (that works in a few browsers if you fix the -vendor-* CSS-ness) we now have Safari in Safari. Being a web developer who works on a Mac, I’ve noticed that Apple’s implementation of CSS3 to Webkit and Safari always felt like they were extending OS X GUI elements to Read the rest…
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Category: Fun
It was St. Patricks Day last night, and I have a funny feeling that some green beer and Guiness lead to Brian LeRoux and Rob Ellis creating Crockford Facts. It isn’t Friday yet…. well it is in Australia right? Silliness. Oh, and John Resig has some competition for Doug too. We demand a dance off?
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Category: Canvas, Fun
, Games
, JavaScript
It is quite interesting to see how technology moves in circles. With canvas being the new fun toy to play with for creating browser-based games we have to find solutions to fake a 3D environment to be really fast (sure there is Canvas 3D but it is overkill for most games). The trick is to Read the rest…
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Category: Fun
This is a Friday post that happens to show up on Monday ;) 2010 will have a lot of Web based OS products, including the much anticipated Chrome OS. Why wait for that when you can use Windows 3.11: Browser Edition? Or, check out webOS on mobile, Jollicloud on Netbook, and many others.
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Tim de Koning has done what folks do best with their winter holidays…. created something fun :) With JSC64 he has ported the Flash version to give us an emulator for the Commodore 64 in JavaScript. Tim’s work uses Canvas and he provides a jQuery plugin if you are that way inclined. It is fun Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
