Fantasy User Interfaces, Fictional User Interfaces, Fake User Interfaces, Futuristic User Interfaces. Regardless of what the F stands for, they all represent the same thing, the user interfaces and heads up displays found in many popular movies and television shows. Kit FUI is an IMDb-like database that makes it easy to find screenshots, videos and …
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console.snapshot
Output snapshots and screenshots of canvas elements directly in the console of the Chrome Dev Tools var canvas = document.createElement(“canvas”), ctx = canvas.getContext(“2d”); // … //draw // … console.screenshot(canvas, 0.8); //Snapshot it and scale the output to 80% of the original size Resulting output is the image picture above. Also supports creating a snapshot which …
Sizing (Web) components by adding a Trojan horse into your CSS
So when it comes to changing the size of a component [of a framework], for example making a Slider bigger for touch input, it might get tedious fiddling with all the widths/heights, border-radi.. etc. So how can we make it easier? Well, by sneaking a Trojan horse into your components and use it to control …
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Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 —The Future of Color Fonts?
With Windows 8.1, Microsoft’s operating system now also supports color emoji. But they did it in a very different way than Apple and Google. Instead of using PNG images, they introduced a support for layered vector glyphs! Reminds of that neat trick where one would layer webfonts/icofonts on top of eachother, all in a different …
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The franticness of working in the web business
Some interesting quotes by Richard Davey from his talk HTML5 Gaming on the Mobile Web is now live on Adobe TV: Things you’re told not possible today might be by the end of the project and Be prepared to un-learn what you know every 6 months Think of new features that appear in a canary/beta …
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