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Comment on Comprehensive Guide to Using Cufon Text with Raphael by Robert Vogel

Robert Vogel — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:28:31 +0000

Thank you for sharing this. Saved me some time.

Btw.: my solution to the “rotation problem” with print()-sets looks like this:

txt = r.print(30, 30, “Hallo Welt!”, r.getFont(“Times”), 40);
txt.rotate(65, txt.getBBox().x + txt.getBBox().width / 2, txt.getBBox().y + txt.getBBox().height / 2);

Using the BBox of the set I always get the exact middle of the text. If I want to rotate around – let’s say the upper left corner I just have to remove the txt.getBBox().height / 2 and txt.getBBox().width / 2. By playing with these height and width values of the BBox I can rotate around every desired corner of the text.

Comment on Akihabara – Replacing Flash Games with JavaScript by Nigel Kelly

Nigel Kelly — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:55:04 +0000

Yes. Saw this game engine a couple of weeks ago. The games on it are impressive, and I think the guy behind it would write great games whatever language he was given.

I write games myself in js for Palm’s webos. I used the GMP game engine. Whilst the game examples aren’t as good, there are some tutorials and it’s only 25kb in size.

I think js games will become popular on mobile devices where the js runs locally. webOS apps are mostly js and the phonegap project means you can now write apps for several mobile devices (iPhone and Anroid, amongst others) in js, distribute them through the app store and they are played locally on the device.

I am porting my webOS game at the moment to iPhone with phonegap. Whilst it’s not straight forward it is reasonbaly doable.

Check out my site iapplogic.com for details.

Comment on Akihabara – Replacing Flash Games with JavaScript by kzurawel

kzurawel — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:04:34 +0000

Thanks for the reply. You’re right, the lack of JavaScript IDEs really is the big sticking point. Adobe keeps saying that they want to produce best-in-class tools for HTML5 content – if they can pull it off, I think they’ll be just as relevant (if not more) than they were when they first bought Macromedia.

Comment on Akihabara – Replacing Flash Games with JavaScript by Dmitry

Dmitry — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:56:20 +0000

While the performance of Akihabara is impressive, the fact that source code is easily available makes it unlikely that serious commercial projects will choose this route.
You can easily extract source code from Flash SWF with Sothink Decompiler. On the other hand, it is possible to obfuscate JavaScirpt code by bloating logic flow, renaming variables, and dynamically evaluating downloaded code.
Roughly speaking, except that javascript is not compiled to bytecode it is completely equal to Flash in features. The reason why it is not used today is because it has no advantages over Flash, and a lot of libraries and ide applications exist for Flash but not for javascript.

Comment on Akihabara – Replacing Flash Games with JavaScript by Free Javascript Code

Free Javascript Code — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:25:32 +0000

that’s all cool & great js tool to try, thank you very much for sharing.

Comment on Comprehensive Guide to Using Cufon Text with Raphael by WP Themes

WP Themes — Sun, 02 May 2010 04:31:21 +0000

Nice dispatch and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. Say thank you you on your information.

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Comment on Web Design and Development: The Mile-High View by kzurawel

kzurawel — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:11:57 +0000

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