Today, I’m incredibly proud and happy to read about the launch of the new jQuery Foundation, and rather than doing a quick tweet, thought I’d write down a couple words to congratulate all members of the jQuery team, and all jQuery users. I was one of the original six signers of the documents when we [...]
I promised my next blog post will be positive, so here we go. Few people know this, but while Safari debugging on iOS doesn’t exist, Safari debugging on PC is actually fairly useful. There will be a more elaborate blog post following soon, but this first little goodie will get you going first. Paste this [...]
If you look for a quick solution, I have bad news: It’s not possible. Not even close. Well, in the browser at least. For many subsequent years, smart web developers have tried and failed to produce accurate ways to measure something that comes close to displayed frames per second on websites. Something that’d been so [...]
People who know me are aware that I have been, and still am a long time supporter of the open web stack, and I have talked a dozen times about how HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript is the only way to produce apps, sites and games that run cross-platform, accessible to the widest audience possible. Now [...]
I recently had an interesting Twitter exchange with Joe Hewitt on our (as in Zynga) newly released Scroller that is somewhat in direct competition with his excellent Scrollability plugin. Both share at least one similar ambition: To give us native-feel iOS panning wherever we want it. Joe even recently blogged about how to do fast [...]
It is a little known secret outside the game industry that there’s a very good reason why you won’t hear popular music in most popular games. It’s not that game developers don’t want you to listen to great soundtracks – it’s the horrible situation with licensing. But why is that? License holders such as the [...]
…and I’m back! Not content with the hacky previous solution of animating spritesheets in CSS and with the help of the fabulous Doug Neiner, I created four individual ways to animate sprites via CSS3 Animations, which each of them having their own advantages. There goes the list: background, stepped This is by far the cleanest [...]
Update: A way more awesome update with more techniques: Click me! Warning: This is hackier and more dirty than anything I have published in recent years, and only works in WebKit. Use with extreme caution. I’m lazy, show me the end result first! CSS Animations are great – they are a lot less pain for [...]
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