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Entries for the ‘HTML5’ Category

Determining Geolocation on the Web

Here’s a GeoLocator example I put together that showcases two popular GeoLocation techniques – IP lookup and using the GeoLocation API – in order to both demonstrate the techniques as well as to show the issues with each. In HTML, there are a few ways of determining the location of a user. Traditionally, this has [...]

Full Screen Canvas Particle Demo

I created a new version of my particle demo using the HTML5 <canvas>. This version is full screen, inspired by this amazing canvas demo at Iteration Six. I’d seen their demo prior to my starting to tinker with the canvas tag, but I never really tore it apart and looked inside. From what it appears, [...]

HTML5 Canvas Particle Example

Here’s a cool particle demonstration of the HTML5 <canvas> tag. It’s a tremendously small amount of JavaScript code that is responsible for pushing some radial gradient particles around a canvas. You can check out the source code to see how things are done – it uses jQuery a bit and the demo itself uses a [...]