Category Archives: html5

Understanding CSS cubic-bezier

One of the most often overlooked features of CSS transitions is the ability to specify a cubic-bezier timing function. This is because you get a bunch of easing options out of the standards-based box: ease, ease-in, ease-out, ease-in-out, linear. These … Continue reading

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Added projects to github

I just added a few projects to github. Here’s the rundown: jQuery Asset Loader – This class is based off an example from Steve Souder’s book Even Faster Websites. Essentially you can load a script OR a stylesheet with a … Continue reading

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iPad Safari image limit workaround

I hit a mobile Safari limitation recently when building an AJAX-y site on the iPad. If you load a ton of images eventually mobile Safari cuts you off and will display a [?] instead of the image. After doing some … Continue reading

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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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HTML 5 Video on the iPad

While developing an HTML 5 video player for the iPad I ran into a few inconvenient quirks. Here’s a rundown of the issues I came across. There’s no auto-play. If you try to play the HTML5 video player purely in … Continue reading

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