Video tag user to Apple: Get your act together.

I’m currently trying to get a video of the last demo online and all things considered, it has been a good experience… except for Apple’s Safari browser. It’s nice that they support the video tag, but their implementation is pretty much useless: Don’t say that you support a feature when you really don’t. Apple’s implementation [...]

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Blogger Formating nightmare

As you may have noted, the formatting on my older posts has been lost, because Blogger wouldn’t let me edit my HTML without adding additional linebreaks unless I disabled them in both HTML and Compose view, which also effected existing posts (which I didn’t notice until it was too late). I’ll try to rebuild the [...]

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Fake Voxels with filters

Click the image above to get to the demo Video Apparently, your browser is unable to play open web video. Currently, compatible browsers include Firefox and Chrome. Download/View in external player Voxels are a way to display 3D data that dates back to the days before 3D accelerators became popular. Voxels (VOLume piXELS) don’t store [...]

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Font work: schmucker-sans-nothrills-rev0

Click to get to the SVG. When font-face made it’s appearance in all major browsers I was really, really excited. Until I learned that I wouldn’t be able to use any commercial fonts and even most free fonts. So I’ve started working on my own. It’s terribly basic and isn’t even complete yet, but I [...]

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Dynamically textured animations in the browser

It’s probably best to let you play with this little demo first. The animation is stored only once and the texture is applied dynamically. Keep in mind that this is only a techdemo. Somebody more familiar with animation could use this technique for something truely great (think along the lines of you uploading an image [...]

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Smooth image filtering for MSIE6+ and Firefox 2+

Sometimes working on a production website reminds you of problems you thought that were long gone. In this case, I needed smooth image scaling for the majority of browsers and yes, that sadly still includes MSIE6 and Firefox2. The solution for MSIE6 is pretty well known, so I’ll keep this short: You need to apply [...]

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SVG makes the world go round

I just had to play with SVG filters a little more. You’ll find instructions on how to do this in the previous post, but this is maybe a better example for what you can do with it: A spinning world enough said.

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