With the latest iOS 4.2 upgrade, Apple added accelerometer support to mobile Safari. You can access this via the W3C DeviceOrientation API. This is a really great feature that creates a lot of potential for browser based apps. Apple is … Continue reading
In between sessions at jQuery Boston I wanted to make something fun using the new jQuery rotation extension and also the MozOrientation events. So, I hacked this together for fellow MacBook Pro Firefox users to play with: Accelerometer Fish. Go … Continue reading
Here’s a presentation I put together about canvas. I’ll try to get some more detailed tutorials together sooner or later.
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
When I animate elements in jQuery I often find myself looking for a little something more than the default “swing” and “linear” values. So to spice things up, I usually download this jQuery easing plugin. Once you include it in … Continue reading
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
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
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
