Google have announced on their Geo Developers Blog that they are deprecated support for the Flash based Maps API. They claim this is so they can focus more resources on the JavaScript Maps API v3. The Flash API was introduced back in 2008 when Flash was probably at its peak. The decline of Flash, is in…
Read MoreA Nice feature in IE9 is the F12 Developer Tool. Testing in IE7 and IE8 is always a bit of a chore. But you are running windows and have IE9 installed then you can use the Developer Tool. To open it hit F12. Very similar to Firebug for Firefox but does have the ability to…
Read MoreHave a look here for some little experiments with <canvas> in HTML5. Canvas Clock Rotating Cheese with Canvas Here is the code I produced. Canvas Clock Rotating Cheese Inspired by reading the Canvas Tutorial on Mozilla MDN.
Read More“Live Long and Prosper” As you move into the world of the web you will need to learn some new vocabulary. In the web world there are a range of technologies, acronyms and disciplines that can confuse the newbie (there’s one already – newbie – personage new to the technology). Here are ten to help…
Read MoreWow. Look at this (if you are using Chrome): http://helloracer.com/webgl/ Carlos Ulloa who is already well known for Papervision 3D has now produced an amazing example of webGL built using three.js. And if that isn’t enough wow’s already, then here another bit of HTML5/CSS3 magic. CSS Icons created with no images. Best viewed in Chrome…
Read MoreEnjoying the Glastonbury coverage from the BBC on this wet weekend. The best festival in the world and the best music. But I’m not able to enjoy it on my iPad. The cool kids may be knocking Flash but you can’t beat it for live event streaming like Glasto. U2 may be an old band,…
Read MoreThe pace of browser releases is on the up. This week saw the release of Firefox 5 which seems ridiculously quick follow up to Firefox 4. Also Microsoft have IE10 available to test drive. With Google releasing a new version of Chrome every six weeks we are possibly now on version 42.6 for all I…
Read MoreHow can you teach web design? Should you teach design? Or should you teach technologies? Should you start with a code editor, Photoshop, Dreamweaver or WordPress? I don’t pretend to have the answers to these questions but am going to use this blog to muse on these issues starting with the question: Who would want…
Read MoreWe all love to hate IE. I think it is time web designers started to treat IE with a little more respect. IE9 is out, and although there is the major isssue around lack of upgrade routes from Window XP, Microsoft have got an excellent browser on their hands. As a result there are going…
Read MoreI do most of my note writing in Microsoft Word. It is just easy and convenient and a legacy thing. However one thing that bugs me is “smart quotes” where if you paste some code into Word it adds “smart quotes” where I would just want “dumb quotes” – say around an attribute in a…
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