Tag Archives: HTML5

Build a vertical scrolling shooter game with HTML5 canvas – Part 4

Part 1 – Game Basics Part 2 – Graphics and Lasers Part 3 – Laser Hit Test Part 4 – Ship Hit Test and Score Part 5 – Player Lives and Continue Button Part 6 – Font fixes and Start … Continue reading

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Why I think Flash Developers get so defensive

A couple of days ago I came across this tweet by Keith Peters, who runs the great bit-101 blog. I think there are two reasons that some Flash developers reacted badly to him talking about JavaScript. First, Keith is well … Continue reading

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Create a canvas the size of the web document

I’m a big fan of the canvas tag and I like that it lets us do things that we couldn’t before. One of those things is a more interactive background like Paul Irish has on his blog. So how do … Continue reading

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Build a vertical scrolling shooter game with HTML5 canvas – Part 3

Part 1 – Game Basics Part 2 – Graphics and Lasers Part 3 – Laser Hit Test Part 4 – Ship Hit Test and Score Part 5 – Player Lives and Continue Button Part 6 – Font fixes and Start … Continue reading

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Build a vertical scrolling shooter game with HTML5 canvas – Part 2

Part 1 – Game Basics Part 2 – Graphics and Lasers Part 3 – Laser Hit Test Part 4 – Ship Hit Test and Score Part 5 – Player Lives and Continue Button Part 6 – Font fixes and Start … Continue reading

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Build a vertical scrolling shooter game with HTML5 canvas – Part 1

Part 1 – Game Basics Part 2 – Graphics and Lasers Part 3 – Laser Hit Test Part 4 – Ship Hit Test and Score Part 5 – Player Lives and Continue Button Part 6 – Font fixes and Start … Continue reading

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2011 is going to be the year of JavaScript but we need to make it good JavaScript

Lately, I’ve being seeing a lot of developers talking about people talking about HTML5 but really meaning JavaScript. A lot of the “35 HTML5 Examples” posts I’ve seen are one HTML5 example and 34 examples featuring JavaScript and could be … Continue reading

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This Awesome Industry

Today Jeffrey Way posted an editorial on Net Tuts+ called This Damn Industry which I think made some great points about what it’s like to be a web developer but at the same time, I don’t think I would ever … Continue reading

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How the hell did I become a JavaScript fan?

If you had told me a year ago, or even six months ago, that I’d spend an entire day working with JavaScript and I’d enjoy it, I would have called you completely insane. Until recently, I was not a fan … Continue reading

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Even Google uses other people’s code and you can learn from it

After Google officially announced the Chrome OS, I was looking around the site, and I got distracted by the animated icons they have on the Features page. Usually when I see things like that, I have to poke around until … Continue reading

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