04 4 / 2013
ASK AND I SHALL REPLY!
I’m going to be on Chris Coyier’s Shop Talk Show in an hour! Ask me all your questions about CSS, animation, comics, the future of online interactions, whatevs: http://shoptalkshow.com/ask/ NOW’S YOUR CHANCE!
24 3 / 2013
The Black Brick Road to O.Z. #11: a Flashless Interactive collaboration
I spent my first 7 days job-free collaborating with the awesome (and mind-bogglingly young!) comicker Xamag to create The Black Brick Road of O.Z. #11, an interactive treasure map/cartoon: http://cdpn.io/lqswg
Originally she intended to make this using Flash, but she had trouble with the scripting. I had been reading her comics and contacted her about a possible collaboration. She was super excited to hand the project to me to implement with pure HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
My apologies for the retro “best viewed in Chrome” sign, but you know what? It’s not too shabby on my iPhone :)
20 3 / 2013
Adobe
Something is up with Adobe. There’s some sort of shakedown happening at the Adobe Developer Connection. The only reason I know is because there’s a reshuffling with some articles I was going to post with them. Now it looks like I will need to shop these somewhere else.
Does this have something to do with Kevin Lynch’s departure?
06 3 / 2013
New Benchmarks and shader toys
Benchmarks and tips regarding browser performans/framerates under a variety of stresses including but not limited to positioning and forced hardware acceleration: http://blog.tumult.com/2013/02/28/transform-translate-vs-top-left
And a webGL shader toy if you’re into that sort of thing: https://www.shadertoy.com/
Bonus: Lessons in webGL
http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?page_id=1217
14 2 / 2013
Hitting that 60 fps mark
A few rules of thumb: http://chrislord.net/index.php/2013/02/11/tips-for-smooth-scrolling-web-pages-edgeconf-follow-up/
DevTools, use them: http://addyosmani.com/blog/devtools-visually-re-engineering-css-for-faster-paint-times/
06 2 / 2013
"The only way to unmute the Web Audio context is to call noteOn() right after a user interaction."
04 2 / 2013
"Because teens often work on older, second-hand computers — and sometimes have slow Internet connections — fancy features might not work well."
NNGroup study on teens and web design
It might be awhile before I can expect to launch browser-based cartoons for young people. But adults are another story…
04 2 / 2013
Tuna and Audio Hackday
Loving the web audio data flow created at Stockholm’s music hackday event. We need to get our Triangle music hackday set up, stat!
Also, don’t you think Tuna P. Katz would make a great mascot for Dinah Moe’s Tuna? I love what this company works on!
31 1 / 2013
How did I miss this? Mozilla, Google, Webkit animation discussions? And why is the room so empty?? When does this stuff happen and why don’t I know about it????
