I stumbled across this little gem the other day — websocketd — which turns anything that takes standard-in and standard-out into a websocket server!
It feels like a little while since I last played around with the <canvas> element, so I spent some time over the weekend and put together a simple painting app using the canvas and here is the end result.
Another productive weekend bares fruit for another mini game! This time I’ve put together a dojo-themed mini game whose sole purpose is to test your ability to do simple (well, mostly) arithmetic calculations in your head and your tolerance for my sense of…
I saw this tutorial the other day, it’s cool but I fancied taking it a step further and make it useful as an app rather than just a fancy way to show some structured data on the screen. Here’s a list of the features which I…
In part 4, I put together the foundations for a mini shooting game, with targets moving on the screen and you can ‘hit’ them by clicking inside the targets, etc. etc. I promised an update to make it feel more like a game, so here it is!
Following on from part 3 where we basically made a little app that lets you scribble with HTML5’s canvas element, let us push on and see what else we can achieve with the canvas element.
Following on from part 2 where I wrote a simple page with a canvas area where you can scribble, I thought I’d add a couple of new features:
Earlier I explored some of the basic drawing methods available on the 2D context of the new canvas element in HTML5, moving on from there, I’ve put together another quick demo here (see image below) which lets the user scribble inside the canvas element.
One of the cool new features introduced by HTML5 is the new <canvas> tag, which defines an area for you to draw graphics on using javascript.
As I go through the HTML5 spec, I find some useful new feature just about everywhere, and the new contenteditable attribute is certainly one of those. It’s supported by most elements and provides a simple and yet effective way for you to allow…
