Here’s a lil’ Scrollbar Experiment. It’s pretty.
Sine Scrollbars
Monday, January 18, 2010
Author Archives: Mr Speaker
jQuery 1.4 iPhone reference app
Thursday, January 14, 2010
[English got you down? Try this post in Belorussian!] Welcome to the year twenty hundred and ten! As a very early christmas present, the jQuery team have announced they’ll be dropping the 1.4 release on us in the next couple of days. They’ve also unveiled a new documentation effort. To help you get your head […]
.index() becomes cool in jQuery 1.4
Saturday, December 5, 2009
With jQuery 1.4 just around the corner, it’s time to start looking at what’s new. One nice change is the updated functionality of the index method. Previously, well, it was a pain in the bum to get the index of an element in a selection – and required a pretty convoluted syntax. Now it’s super […]
Parcycle: A Particle System with HTML5 canvas
Thursday, December 3, 2009
All this PPK “iPhone developers are stupid” awesomeness got me thinking. Now, if there’s one guy I’ve got respect for, it’s PPK. And if he tells me to ditch objective-c for JavaScript, then I’m damn well going to do it. Accordingly, I decide to create “Parcycle”: a Particle Emitter system that I re-wrote from a […]
JavaScript iPhone Games: Part II
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Interesting JavaScript times abound! Recently the Pie Guy JavaScript iPhone game has provided a sneak-peek at what we can do with the awesome one-two punch of ECMAScript and the iPhone. Accordingly, I went back and applied some pie-guy tricks to my platformer…
PPK vs Degrassi Junior High
Friday, November 27, 2009
Shocking discovery uncovered by Henry.
Nifty jQuery trick: setting attributes
Thursday, November 26, 2009
I’ve been knee deep in the jQuery source code recently. It’s all gooey, but you do get to see some snazzy things. Today’s nifty jQuery trick is about programmatically setting attribute values via a function. To follow along at home you’ll need some scissors, a length of string, and some double sided tape…
The road to jQuery 1.4: at a glance
Friday, November 20, 2009
Ok, here’s something you’ll want to refer to daily… the current status of the jQuery 1.4 “TODO list”, or as I like to call it, “Report 37”. Usually when people on the jQuery dev lists ask “When will jQuery 1.4 be ready?” they are met with a resigned (resigned not resiged) answer: “When it’s ready”. […]
Adding “1UP notification” with jQuery
Monday, November 16, 2009
Now, as many of you know, I’m a big fan of taking interactions from retro gaming and attempting to squish them onto the page as standard UI elements. If I had my way, all sites would look like BMX Simulator from the C64. With that in mind… today something great happened. A win for old-school-gaming-as-ui-elements […]