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- Stop Google from hijacking arrow key presses on Search Result pages
- iTunes Match stuck on “Step 1: Gathering information about your iTunes Library”
- Primal Screen’s Mic AS3 Output class
- UPDATE: Fix: CSS Animation slow or choppy in mobile browsers
- Prevent Mobile Safari from zooming in when device rotates
- Primal Screen website launch
- Fix: CSS Animation slow or choppy in mobile browsers
- Socket.io 0.7 – Sending messages to individual clients
- CSS z-index doesn’t do anything, inspector computed style says it’s z-index:auto
- TypeKit (@font-face) font’s look like crap in IE7 & IE8 when animated with jQuery
- AS3 Component Parameters always NULL or empty? Here’s an even better fix.
- After Effects Expression: Snapping objects to whole pixels
- Use Google Fonts (they’re free, and not half bad) in your site
- Basics: What PHP version does my server run?
- Make elements hang outside your main page container, without triggering scrollbars if the window is too narrow
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I signed up for iTunes Match today, mostly just to upgrade all my music to un-DRM’d 256k (the iTunes Plus method would have cost about $100 at 30c a track). The jury is still out on whether I’ll renew the … Continue reading
Today I committed the first version of my Mic AS3 class to Primal Screen‘s Github repository. The purpose of this class is to organize your Output window into something much more usable. I wrote it in out typical relaxed Primal … Continue reading
Posted in Actionscript/Flash
Tagged as3, class, mic, output, primal, primalscreen, screen, trace
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Original post: http://chrissilich.com/blog/fix-css-animation-slow-or-choppy-in-mobile-browsers/ Even better than just adding this code to all the elements you want sped up… -webkit-transform: translateZ(0); Use -webkit-transform: translate3d() to do all your animations, instead of left, right, top, bottom, margin, or padding properties. -webkit-transform: translate3d(50%, … Continue reading
Did I mention that our new website launched? Primal Screen website (100% of code and 75% of design by yours truly). Oh, and I’ll never write another website in that bloated carcass of a useable PHP framework: Zend Framework. My … Continue reading
Posted in Actionscript/Flash, CodeIgniter, HTML/CSS, HTML5, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, Zend
Tagged CSS, html, html5, javascript, jquery, js, primal, primalscreen, screen, zend
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I’m developing an iPhone app using the PhoneGap library, which lets you write your app as if it were a website. That means any UI transitions or animations have to be written the way you would for any modern website … Continue reading
Today I fought with a stylesheet for a good 15 minutes, wondering why a content element was overlapping a nav element, and why I couldn’t just give the nav element a higher z-index number. Turns out, z-index is ignored on … Continue reading
Internet Explorer does a pretty lousy job of displaying fonts anyway, especially fonts from all those new we font websites such as TypeKit (who I strongly recommend). But when you use, say, jQuery’s fadeIn() effect like this $(“.fadeThisGuy”).fadeIn(); … type … Continue reading
Posted in HTML/CSS, Javascript, jQuery
Tagged @font-face, animate, crappy, CSS, fade, filters, IE, ie8, internet explorer, jquery, opacity, typekit
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