Articles for August 2011
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Browserscene: Creating Demos on the Web – Presentation at ASSEMBLY
Last Friday I got to attend and speak at the ASSEMBLY event in Finland. The atmosphere was amazing, just check out this photo: Here is how the organisers describe the event: ASSEMBLY is a four day computer festival, in which thousands of people and their computers spend the long weekend by meeting friends, playing games, […]
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Ask MDN follow-up: HTML5 Gaming & Creative JavaScript
Just over a week ago we gathered 8 experts in the field to answer your questions about HTML5 gaming and creative JavaScript. This was our first Ask MDN event and, although it had a couple of teething problems, it went really well. In this post I want to follow up on the previous event and […]
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Rendering 3D with CSS and JavaScript with dom3d (guest post)
Today we have a guest post by James Long (@jlongster). James is the tech lead for mozilla.com on the Web Development team. James is passionate about interactive graphics on the open web. Today he explains how you can create 3D objects using CSS without having 3D transforms support. Take it away, James. Recently I was […]
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, August 4th 2011
It’s time again for the link picks of the week from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Team!
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Wiki Wednesday: August 3, 2011
(Yeah, it’s Thursday — sorry). Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by logging into the wiki and […]
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Animating with javascript: from setInterval to requestAnimationFrame
Animating DOM elements[1] or the content of a canvas is a classical use case for setInterval. But the interval is not as reliable as it seems, and a more suitable API is now available… Animating with setInterval To animate an element moving 400 pixels on the right with javascript, the basic thing to do is […]
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Living on the Edge – new Adobe animation tool sparks necessary conversations
Adobe made quite some splash in the last days by releasing Edge, a Flash-like tool to create HTML5/CSS3/JS driven animations. There is a need for a tool like that and I for one am very happy to see that Adobe are recognising this. Other tools that try to tackle the same task are already around, […]
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Making history with the August Dev Derby
It is time to announce another month’s Dev Derby and this August we want you to play with the History API. The History API is a much needed piece of the puzzle of creating modern web applications and here is why: Links are good, they make the web work The web is made up from […]
