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Canvas vs. SVG vs. Flash
An experiment: Canvas vs. SVG vs. FlashThis experiment was inspired by Jackson Dunstan's latest Javascrip/AS3-Benchmark. The results are quite fascinating, anyway I was looking for a method that...
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Understanding CSS 3D Transforms (CSS 3D – 1)
Bevel, Dropshadow, Gloss and Glow are designers chocolate-bar - everybody knows they should be avoided, but sometimes we can't resist. The biggest calorie-bomb is everything 3-D. Ahhh 3D - think of...
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Introducing Spritebaker
Over time Data URI Sprites have more and more become an indispensable tool for my work. For the rookies: data URI-sprites is the name of the method to encode all kind of binary resources to base64 and...
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Natural Object-Rotation with CSS3 3D
I finally found some time to finish my short series of tutorials on CSS 3D transforms. If you haven't checked out part 1 & 2 I recommend you to do so, otherwise you will feel lost pretty soon.In...
View ArticleShowcase: Pop-Up Book in HTML and CSS
This is a little showcase I build yesterday. I had some "leftover" illlustrations from a recent project the client rejected, so I took this as an excuse to cobble together a little demo that uses all...
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Fresh from the Lab: CSS3 Text-Warping
I got hooked on desktop-publishing the moment when I attached a text to a path for the first time in Freehand 3. It was magic. Suddenly you could create designs that used to take days or even weeks in...
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Updated: traqball 2.0
Finally updated traqball.js, my little js lib for gimbal-lock-free 3d rotation to version 2.0. Most important improvements:Now its's possible to have multiple instances of trackball on one...
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Better CSS Sprites with SVG
For webdesigners it's still frustrating to deal with the limitations of the CSS "background-image" property. Sure, things have improved ten times with CSS3. We now are able to add multiple backgrounds,...
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Finally! csswarp.js for dynamic Text warping
I proudly present the first version of csswarp.js. This small (<8kb, minified, unzipped) library does the same thing as csswarp.com, but dynamically at runtime, making it possible to warp text that...
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Liquify everything!
I had the opportunity to write a new article over at Smashing Magazine. I’s a deep dive into the wonderful world of displacement filtering, what it is, how use displacement maps to create really cool...
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