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Understanding CSS 3D Transforms (CSS 3D – 1)

ThumbI had a lot of fun last week playing with the new CSS 3D Transforms. This short mini-series is intended to help developers get ready for the next generation of Webkit-browsers.more

Cubic Bezier in Flash

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One drawback of flash is its inability to display cubic bezier curves. This is my technique for drawing highly precise cubic bezieres. It makes use of the fl.motion package and is an alternative to the widely used generic-midpoint-approximation.

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Canvas vs. SVG vs. Flash

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HTML5 is gaining momentum and we designers increasingly often have to decide which method to choose for rendering complex animations in the browser: canvas, svg or flash? Maybe this experiment can help to get a feeling for speed and responsiveness of the different rendering-methods.

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Quick Tip: Styling HR In Internet-Explorer

Anyone who ever tried to style horizontal rulers in Internet Explorer knows that this is nearly impossible: IE<8.0 only accepts a small subset of CSS-Rules for styling HRs. This little script is here to help...

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The Comeback Of The Rotary-Dial

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Older readers propably still remember: long ago in ancient times telephones didn't have buttons but a rotary-control for entering phone-numbers. Currently a revival is going on.

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Javascript Dial Control (+ Flash Bonusfeature)

Recently I had to implement a dial-control into an html-app. I couldn't find any library on the web, so I decided to code my own solution.

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Font-Replacement

Why I'm using my own flash-based font-replacement method on this page.

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Hello World!

So lets go! Will add some more content over the next days.

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