Monthly Archives: April 2010

JavaScript Fractal Tree

Here’s an example of a fractal tree using javascript and the canvas tag. I tossed this together a while back and finally polished it up. It’s based on a tutorial here. If you want to grab the JS and tinker … Continue reading

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iPad and iPhone html5 video autoplay

This post is deprecated since this technique doesn’t work  anymore! But here’s a blog post by Matthew Congrove that get’s it working. I tested his technique with iOS4 and it looks good. I previously wrote a post mentioning how you … Continue reading

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This week in web typograpgy

Typekit now supports SVG fonts. This is good news if you want to use their services for an iPad site (since SVG is the only format mobile Safari supports). They mention there are still some bugs to work out, but … Continue reading

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iPad orientation

Jason Grigsby posted a cool article about a CSS-only solution to updating styles based on iPad orientation: http://www.cloudfour.com/ipad-orientation-css/ In my project I used JavaScript to detect the “orientationchange” event. Then I test if Math.abs(window.orientation) == 90… then I know you’re in … Continue reading

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