A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Adobe Photoshop has a variety of helpful blend modes for compositing images from multiple RGBA layers. This small library provides the same functionality for HTML Canvas Contexts, with the goal of producing the same results as Photoshop. Allows you to do stuff like: // Likely an ‘offscreen’ (not in the DOM) canvas var over = …
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Recently the engineers at Instagram challenged the interwebs to write some code that unshreds a chopped up image. Some of us took the liberty of solving the problem in Javascript, although it wasn’t one of the languages suggested. Solution by Joe Lambert Solution by Ron Ilan Solution by Diego Ferreiro Be sure to check and …
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Aurora 10 (the next version of Firefox) now sports built-in developer tools. Using built-in tools, you can now peek into your page’s structure and layout. Choose “Inspect” from the “Web Developer” menu and you can visually select the page element that is of interest to you. Be sure to note Robert Nyman‘s comment in the …
From the author that’s making Mari0: Literally bridging the gap between 2D and 3D games, Ortho Robot is a perspective based puzzle game, where you flatten the view to move across gaps. Your objective is to reach the ending green block (either by standing directly on it or standing on it in relative space). For …
You may not know it, but the HTML5 specifications go beyond what we put in the pages and also define how parts of the browser should become available to developers with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. One of these parts of the specs are context menus, or “right click menus”. Using HTML5 and a menu element …