HTML5 is growing up faster than anyone could have imagined. Powerful and professional solutions are already being developed…even in the gaming world! Today, you’ll make your first game using Box2D and HTML5′s canvas tag.
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Create a Media Player and Playlist: New on Premium
With such a prevalent medium like video on the web it may be a matter of time before you need to build a video section with playlist and player. By using JavaScript (in this case the jQuery framework) a flash player and the new HTML5 data attribute you can easily create a playlist that when clicked will load the video into the specified player without refreshing the page.
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How to Transition an Image from B&W to Color with Canvas
Recently, in the CodeCanyon forums, a question was brought up: “How do I transition an image from black and white, to color — using only one image?” Unfortunately, at this point in time, it’s not possible with CSS. However, if we’re creative with JavaScript and canvas, we can create a solution relatively easily. I’ll show you how in today’s video tutorial!
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Canvas from Scratch: Pixel Manipulation
In the last article, you learned all about transformations, shadows and gradients. Today, I’m going to show you how to manipulate pixels in canvas; from simply accessing color values, to editing images within the canvas just like a photo editor.
This is easily one of the most powerful features built into canvas directly, and once you’ve learned it, I guarantee that you’ll have a whole range of exciting ideas.
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Diving into WebSockets: New Premium Tutorial
Learn how to leverage the power of asynchronous server-to-browser “push” communication with Node.js and Socket.IO. With Socket.IO, you can allow your server to communicate with your browser clients without having to worry about browser support (HTML5 WebSockets, Flash, polling, etc.).
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Node.js Step by Step: Blogging Application
In the previous episode in this session, you were introduced to Node.js by creating a simple web server that displayed the obligatory “Hello world” text. Today, we’ll take our knowledge to the next level as we begin the implementation of our blog engine application.
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The 11 JavaScript Mistakes you’re Making
JavaScript is relatively easy to learn. However, gotchas abound in this tricky language. Are you sure that you’re not following any bad practices? Today, I’ll point out ten big mistakes you could be making.
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Build a Micro-Blog with SproutCore: New on Premium
SproutCore is a revolutionary JavaScript framework for creating client-side desktop-class applications that run in the browser. This tutorial will introduce you to the core concepts within SproutCore by developing a simple Twitter like micro-blog.
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Quick Tip: Create Cross-Browser Datepickers in Minutes
In this quick tip, I’ll show you how to use the new HTML5 date input, and then provide a fallback jQuery UI solution for the browsers which don’t yet support this new input type.
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Build a Spiffy Quiz Engine: New Premium Tutorial
The first official Nettuts+ quiz was a massive success with an impressive number of developers participating and evaluating their knowledge. There were a non-trivial number of comments asking how the mini quiz engine was built. And lo and behold! That’s what we’re gonna learn in this week’s Premium exclusive tutorial!
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