Tag Archives: canvas

Video Interview of Pixel Lab after the IE9 Beta Event

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Adam Kinney

Eight hours after the IE9 Beta Launch event, I took this video of Robby Ingebretsen and Kevin Moore from Pixel Lab. We discuss IE9, HTML5 and our experiences in building Agent 008 Ball. For more of this witty banter and … Continue reading →

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Impressions from the IE9 beta launch event

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Adam Kinney

Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the IE9 Beta launch event and I’m glad to have gone. This was a good day for IE and I think a good day for the web overall. Not only was Microsoft able … Continue reading →

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Flash to Canvas Experiment: Bonsai Tree

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Adam Kinney

In response to the HTML5/canvas hype, a challenge was recently issued to the public – recreate a wicked cool Flash button with an animated background in HTML5. The challenge was met within a few hours with decent results. Although proving … Continue reading →

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Dissecting the IE9 Fish Tank demo: PNG based sprite sheet animation with Canvas

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Adam Kinney

One of my favorite demos from the IE9 Test Drive site is FishIE Tank. Labeled a “Speed Demo” the FishIE Tank demonstrates hardware acceleration, canvas based image manipulation and PNG based sprite sheet animation. And watching the FPS meter on … Continue reading →

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