One of my favorite posts in the last few years was Bitwise Gems in AS3 by Polygonal Labs, an article inspired by Bitwise Operations in C on Gamedev. This article is a summery of what I’ve learned, applied to Javascript, plus a few other tricks. What’s the wisdom in using bitwise? Bitwise operations can be(…)
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HTML5: Typographic Effects
HTML5 Rocks is a website that helps inspire developers and teach how to implement those shiny new HTML5 features in real world examples. They recently asked me to write an article for their website. Working on a project for Google was inspiring (even if there was no pay involved)! … Neon Rainbow Jitter; … Sleek Zebra (inspired by WebDesignerWall);(…)
HTML5: Typographic Metrics
Typography support between browsers has a history of being spotty. One of the major hurdles in creating the (yet-to-be-released) next-incarnation of Sketchpad was typographic support; between browsers and even within the <canvas> specs. One pitfall of the <canvas> tag is the lack of text-metrics support (past calculating the width via ctx.measureText). This prevents us from(…)
HTML5: Font Detection
So you want to detect fonts in a HTML5 webapp? Presenting a fast-native solution for accurately detecting fonts installed on your system — this demo utilizes Javascript and the <canvas> tag and requires a browser that supports ctx.fillFont(), and ctx.getImageData() — including Chrome, Firefox, IE9, Opera and Safari. This plugin would make sense a website such as TypeTester(…)