HTML5 features in modern browsers like Internet Explorer 10 make possible a whole new class of Web applications and gaming scenarios. This two-part article demonstrates how I’ve used some of these new features to modernize my last HTML5 game, HTML5 Platformer. In Part 1 of this article, I covered how to use CSS3 3D Transform, Transitions, and Grid Layout. In this article, I’ll show you how to use the offline, drag-and-drop and file APIs to implement some interesting new ideas.
Playing a Game in Offline Mode
The original version of my game worked only if your device was currently connected to the Internet. If you wanted to play to my fabulous game while you were on the train, in a taxi, or somewhere else without an Internet connection, you were out of luck—stuck without access to the awesomeness. And that’s too bad, because there really isn’t anything in my game that needs a live connection to the Web server once all the resources have been downloaded. Fortunately, offline APIs provide a solution for this in HTML5.
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Nowadays, there are lots of people using iPhone. And there are many app developers are looking for design resources for showcasing their apps. Using gesture icons for iphone app presentation is a great idea that can save a lot of your effort.
This set of iPhone Gesture Icons contain 12 iphone gesture icons in .AI format. Best of all, it is free to use. You can use them for presentations, sketches, storyboards etc. You can download the icons from the attachment file.
Requirements: –
Download Link: http://dribbble.com/shots/915713-Gestures
License: License Free
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Top Drawer is a smooth dropdown menu for responsive web design. It is designed to demonstrate smoother reveal menus in small contexts using CSS3 rather than animating with JavaScript.
Tap the menu icon in the top right. The click event will assign the class of active to the drawer container which alters the translate value to bring it into view. Modernizr will detect whether the user’s device is capable of CSS transforms, if it isn’t we simply show and hide the menu after the button is pressed – no point in animating if it isn’t going to work smoothly.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Download Link: http://www.jordanm.co.uk/lab/topdrawer
License: License Free
Future Insights Live 2013 is a 4-day event, comprised of one optional workshop day followed by 5 tracks and our hands-on labs over 3-days. FILive will discuss the future technologies, platforms, and business models YOU should be using and implementing to launch the next big thing.
No matter your level of ability, nor whether you are a designer, developer, product person or entrepreneur, this is the event for inspiration, education, and networking that you don’t want to miss.
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- Interaction Design Beyond the Wireframe – Lis Hubert
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Kandan is an open source slick chat app for web developers. It is easy deploy to CloudFoundry, Heroku, dotCloud, etc. It supports Collaborative team chat, Unlimited channels, Embed formats for images and youtube videos with requests for others.
Requirements: –
Download Link: http://kandan.me/
License: AGPL License
Modern browsers like Internet Explorer 10 support the width and height properties of the W3C Working Draft CSS Device Adaptation. This gives Web developers a simple tool to control automatic content scaling across various window dimensions. In particular, it enables sites to easily adapt to Windows 8 browsing on touch-enabled tablet devices in the snapped view and in portrait orientation.
Auto-Scaling and When It Is Used
Most websites have prioritized optimization for a 1024 pixel wide window. This ensures a good user experience for a wide variety of displays when the browser is maximized. However, sites may not work well on new form factors like tablets and portrait screen orientation if they haven’t optimized for other window sizes as well. In particular, pages often clip or distort layout when viewed in a narrow width.
This narrow layout is particularly important in Windows 8, where the snapped view of the browser is in this exact state. This situation also occurs for portrait mode on slate devices due to the smaller form factor. Read the rest of this entry »
Opentip is a free opensource Java-Script tooltip class. There are great styles built right into opentip and it’s easy to create your own. Opentips can automatically download their contents via AJAX. It’s extremely easy to configure them to do so.
Joints and targets allow you to position the tooltip exactly where you want it. Stems are those little pointers. You can configure them to point in any direction. Opentips are drawn on canvas which creates beautifully rendered tooltips in all browsers. Opentip has been developed for and tested in all major browser, including IE7+.
Requirements: JavaScript Framework
Download Link: http://www.opentip.org/
License: MIT License
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Ajax Autocomplete for jQuery allows you to easily create autocomplete/autosuggest boxes for text input fields. It was built with focus on performance – results for every query are cached and pulled from local cache for the same repeating query. If there are no results for particular query it stops sending requests to the server for other queries with the same root.
Ajax Autocomplete for jQuery is freely distributable under the terms of an MIT-style license. It is currently supported browsers: IE 7+, FF 2+, Safari 3+, Opera 9+.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Download Link: http://www.devbridge.com/projects/autocomplete/jquery/
License: MIT License
