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Former Microsoft Evangelist - now working as an independent developer focused on User Interface Design. Currently focused on HTML5, Windows Phone and Windows 8.
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- @timheuer ah, that explains it. I thought it was kind of an obscure choice as the first sample to download. 8 hours ago
- Interesting, the most downloaded #Win8 sample on MSDN is SplashScreen - showing you how to extend the preload time code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Sp… hmm 8 hours ago
- Exploring Windows 8 XAML today, its just familiar enough to be a little confusing. Who moved my cheese? 2 days ago
- @ryanstewart it must be good! I actually got an email from someone, who doesn't work for Adobe, saying I needed to check it out 5 days ago
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Tag Archives: HTML5
Flash to Canvas Experiment: Bonsai Tree
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
Dissecting the IE9 Fish Tank demo: PNG based sprite sheet animation with Canvas
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
Posted in Client Technologies, Tutorials
Tagged Animation, canvas, HTML5, IE9, sprites, thinkpixellab
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