HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet
My memory isn't very good and I often find myself looking up simple things in various specs but sometimes they're just too damn long-winded when you're simply looking for argument x of function y. That's where cheat sheets and reference cards come in handy with their compact, bare-bones information crammed into, at most, a few pages. There are cheat sheets for just about anything out there but I couldn't find one for the HTML5 canvas element, so I decided to do something about that, mostly for my own sake but if other people find it useful that's just all the better.
The information is pretty much just a copy of what is found in the WHATWG specs, just condensed and hopefully a bit easier to read. There are virtually no explanations, however, and no examples other than some graphics for compositing values and a few other things (the appearance of which is very much inspired by those found in Mozilla's examples). So, it's basically just a listing of the attributes and methods of the canvas element and the 2d drawing context.
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Corrections and comments are welcome!
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My memory isn't very good and I often find myself looking up simple things in various specs but sometimes they're just too damn long-winded when you're simply looking for argument x of function y. That's where cheat sheets and reference cards come in handy with their compact, bare-bones information crammed into, at most, a few pages. There are cheat sheets for just about anything out there but I couldn't find one for the HTML5 canvas element, so I decided to do something about that, mostly for my own sake but if other people find it useful that's just all the better. The information is pretty much just a copy of what is found in the WHATWG specs, just condensed and hopefully a bit easier to read. There are virtually no explanations, however, and no examples other than some graphics for compositing values and a few other things (the appearance of which is very much inspired by those found in Mozilla's examples). So, it's basically just a listing of the attributes and methods of the canvas element and the 2d drawing context.
Choose between a 2 page PDF document or a PNG file. Thanks!
Corrections and comments are welcome!
Read more...
Introducing Nihilogic Games - A JavaScript games portal
A small expansion to the Nihilogic site! A new games subsite is now located at http://games.nihilogic.dk/, dedicated to JavaScript games.
As you probably know, there are about a billion sites that collect Flash games (yes, I've counted them), some small and dedicated to niche genres, some big and elaborate. But I've yet to come across a good resource dedicated to just DHTML/JavaScript games, which is why I decided to expand my little site here with a games portal of sorts. It's a subsite of nihilogic.dk and is located at http://games.nihilogic.dk/. It's still very much a work in progress, so I'm still moving things around and stuff.
So far I've only got about 35 games catalogued but there's a whole bunch more in the queue just waiting to be added. The games get tagged with genres, authors, year of production and the technologies used and a small review blurb will tell you what the game is about. The idea is that you shouldn't be able to just browse for, let's say, nice JavaScript platform games, but - since this is a code focused site - also find games that use a certain type of technology, like the YUI library, SoundManager2 or just plain DHTML.
You'll find that the left sidebar is dedicated to these categories and functions as the main navigation bar, while the right bar has a few dynamic lists, featuring the latest games and the popular games. Popularity is based on the ranking of the games, so I hope visitors will share their opinions both by leaving comments and by clicking the pretty stars.
I'll add a "suggest a game" form soon (right now there's just an email link), but until then you are more than welcome to suggest games to be added, either by leaving a comment here or by emailing me. There are not a lot of criteria for what I'll add, except that it should be at least somewhat noteworthy (ie. not Tic-tac-toe or something equally trivial). Tech demos are also welcome if they're in a "presentable" state. And of course - only games based on JavaScript/DHTML/Canvas (although Flash is allowed for sound and such).
There is of course also an RSS feed (in addition to the regular feed) with the latest games for those of you who are into that sort of thing.
Thoughts and ideas about what you'd like to see on such a site are of course more than welcome, just leave a comment below! Read more...
A small expansion to the Nihilogic site! A new games subsite is now located at http://games.nihilogic.dk/, dedicated to JavaScript games.As you probably know, there are about a billion sites that collect Flash games (yes, I've counted them), some small and dedicated to niche genres, some big and elaborate. But I've yet to come across a good resource dedicated to just DHTML/JavaScript games, which is why I decided to expand my little site here with a games portal of sorts. It's a subsite of nihilogic.dk and is located at http://games.nihilogic.dk/. It's still very much a work in progress, so I'm still moving things around and stuff.
So far I've only got about 35 games catalogued but there's a whole bunch more in the queue just waiting to be added. The games get tagged with genres, authors, year of production and the technologies used and a small review blurb will tell you what the game is about. The idea is that you shouldn't be able to just browse for, let's say, nice JavaScript platform games, but - since this is a code focused site - also find games that use a certain type of technology, like the YUI library, SoundManager2 or just plain DHTML.
You'll find that the left sidebar is dedicated to these categories and functions as the main navigation bar, while the right bar has a few dynamic lists, featuring the latest games and the popular games. Popularity is based on the ranking of the games, so I hope visitors will share their opinions both by leaving comments and by clicking the pretty stars.
I'll add a "suggest a game" form soon (right now there's just an email link), but until then you are more than welcome to suggest games to be added, either by leaving a comment here or by emailing me. There are not a lot of criteria for what I'll add, except that it should be at least somewhat noteworthy (ie. not Tic-tac-toe or something equally trivial). Tech demos are also welcome if they're in a "presentable" state. And of course - only games based on JavaScript/DHTML/Canvas (although Flash is allowed for sound and such).
There is of course also an RSS feed (in addition to the regular feed) with the latest games for those of you who are into that sort of thing.
Thoughts and ideas about what you'd like to see on such a site are of course more than welcome, just leave a comment below! Read more...
Pixastic to power Ubiquity photo editor
I've been talking to Mozilla's Aza Raskin about a photo editor command for Ubiquity based on my Pixastic library. He posted an article today explaining what such an editor might look like, check it out! If you don't know what Ubiquity is, it's a really interesting extension to Firefox from Mozilla that lets you interact with your browser using typed commands.
Anyway, as the post says, I hope to begin working on the photo editor within a month so. Read more...
I've been talking to Mozilla's Aza Raskin about a photo editor command for Ubiquity based on my Pixastic library. He posted an article today explaining what such an editor might look like, check it out! If you don't know what Ubiquity is, it's a really interesting extension to Firefox from Mozilla that lets you interact with your browser using typed commands.Anyway, as the post says, I hope to begin working on the photo editor within a month so. Read more...
