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Comment on Build a game using the DOM – Part 1 by Mike

Mike — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:14:30 +0000

jQuery is great but I don’t think I’d use it for game development. There’s other frameworks for that, like EaselJS.

This is more of an intro into how you’d build something like this and if it doesn’t work in IE, I think that’s on them for not implementing classList in their browser. If this was going to be a game that would be released, then I’d use a hack to make sure it worked in IR too.

Comment on Build a game using the DOM – Part 1 by BHL

BHL — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:32:35 +0000

Hey Mike, were you trying to do this without using any jquery? (Or would that be cheating) If not couldn’t you just replace .classList with .addClass

Great tutorials!

Comment on Seriously easy jQuery preloader by Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:36:44 +0000

I don’t think so. A swf isn’t really a part of the document, so the preloader div will be removed when everything else loads, regardless as to whether or not the swf has finished loading. The best thing to do would be to put a preloader on the swf.

Comment on Seriously easy jQuery preloader by Ray

Ray — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:46:46 +0000

Quick question. Will this work on a div containing a SWF?

Comment on More advanced HTML5 canvas sprite sheet walk cycle animation by Greg Ellis

Greg Ellis — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:11:02 +0000

Hi Mike,

Awesome tutorial, I am trying to recreate it by typing it myself and understanding each line of code but I’m having trouble.

If you could you comment the drawPlayer function and the move function I would be extremely grateful

Thankyou,
Greg.

Comment on Build a vertical scrolling shooter game with HTML5 canvas – Part 6 by Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:38:34 +0000

Great tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to make this available. You help the development community a lot when you share your knowledge.

Comment on Use CSS3 gradients to replace your site’s background by Nsisong

Nsisong — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:06:57 +0000

GUY U ROCK that was fantastic it works well in firefox 3.6, opera 11+, chrome, safari and even our dear old internet explorer 8 using the filter syntax

Comment on CSS3 Animation vs jQuery Animation by alp oral

alp oral — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:00:12 +0000

I can see huge performance difference between jquery animation and css3 ones.

Rendering part is almost same, but if you if you look at the scripting performance jquery generates 573 timer to move the object as CSS3 one generates only 89.

css3 transitions is 6x faster than jquery

Comment on Make a resizable, movable box in Flash by Wyeth Stiles

Wyeth Stiles — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:09:32 +0000

Thank you so much. This is very helpful. It will make a job I’m working on much easier.

Best,

-w

Comment on Should you learn JavaScript before you learn jQuery? by Adam

Adam — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:22:41 +0000

I like your post, but I have to correct on something.

JQuery really is just javascript!

JQuery should work on just about anything that supports javascript. It uses a javascript quirk, because ‘$’ can be a valid function identifier which makes it look a bit different. When you see $(‘.popup’).show(), it is really calling a function called ‘$’!

I’d say to anybody using jQuery, you should learn enough CSS and Javascript to be comfortable. Niether are that daunting really.

I’d say the knowing Javascript closures and objects is a must, then it makes sense why jQuery’s syntax works.

The most common problems I find with 3rd party jQuery scripts is the performance gradually slowing down, or events being triggered that you wouldn’t expect or not detecting key presses correctly.

I’d say knowing how event binding works (blurs, mouse, keypresses, etc.) is a huge help. Particularly how event listeners work in Firefox.

In all fairness jQuery gives you functions like die(), live(), off(), on() to do it all properly. They mirror alot of Firefox’s event listener functionality and it works cross platform. That’s where knowing what is going on under the hood really helps.

I hope his helps, may I wish you all the best in the new year.