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Web Animations Preview
A brief introduction to some of the concepts in the Web Animations specification — an attempt to overcome some of the limitations with both CSS and SVG animations and unify them at the same time — currently being defined by Mozilla, Google, and Adobe under the W3C Web Animations 1.0 (Editor’s Draft) →
Cheetahs on the Edge
Cheetahs are the fastest runners on the planet. Combining the resources of National Geographic and the Cincinnati Zoo, and drawing on the skills of an incredible crew, we documented these amazing cats in a way that’s never been done before. Using a Phantom camera filming at 1200 frames per second while zooming beside a sprinting …
Anamorphic Illusions
JAL – Just Another Loader for JavaScript
$loader .load(‘js/jquery.min.js’) .done(function(){ // Stop jQuery from triggering the “ready” event $.holdReady(true) }) .load([ ‘js/script-one.min.js’ , ‘js/script-two.min.js’ ]) .ready(function() { // Allow jQuery to trigger the “ready” event $.holdReady(false) // Start app }); We tested YepNope, which is a great loader, but felt it could be faster. It also had features we didn’t really need. …
Face Detection on OS X and iOS
Recently I realized that Apple added support for face detection in OS X Lion and iOS 5. Apple’s face detection is exposed through Core Image, the super-useful image manipulation library. Two classes are important: CIDetector and CIFeature (along with its subclass, CIFaceFeature). With a little experimenting one night, I was able to get a sample …
CSS3 Lighting Effects
Gamma Gallery: A Responsive Image Gallery
Gamma Gallery is an experimental responsive image gallery that attempts to provide an adjustable responsive images approach taking its grid layout and the full slideshow view into account. Both the grid and lightbox are responsive. Gamma Gallery: A Responsive Image Gallery Experiment → Gamma Gallery Demo →
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A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript (ES6)
ECMAScript 6 contains a few new features. Addy Osmani gives a nice overview of things that are about to come: Modules (which can replace the revealing module pattern we’re familiar with) and Module Loader Classes (which merely is some syntactic sugar) Object.observe() Default Parameter Values (again syntactic sugar as we already know how to work …
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