Microsoft is promoting an HTML port of the popular iPhone game “Cut the rope” as a part of their marketing and promotion of Internet Explorer 10. It works well in Safari (and probably Chrome too).
They include a ‘behind the scenes’ page where they discuss some of the technologies used. It’s fairly interesting but includes some dumb marketing language:
It was a daunting task: get this code into a browser while maintaining the unique personality and incredible quality that gamers are accustomed to. To accomplish this, we bet on JavaScript.
Safe bet. When I have to choose between JavaScript or JavaScript I also bet on JavaScript.
Posted in Development at January 10th, 2012 by MB
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I haven’t been updating as much as I should. To make up for that, here’s some pretty pictures.
Posted in Play at December 20th, 2011 by MB
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I recently updated my update on working around Internet Explorer 9’s deficiencies with gradients and rounded corners. Based upon feedback from a friendly reader, I tweaked the HTC script to work when gradients are applied on hover or mouseover states – the sort of styling you might want to use on a big, friendly, rounded [...]
Tags: css, ie9
Posted in Design, Development at December 19th, 2011 by MB
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Poe’s law states: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing. This article “Typekit: Remaking the Matrix” was linked around yesterday by people I respect. A lot of dumb things are published on the internet, and [...]
Posted in Design at October 29th, 2011 by MB
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Mr. Stephen Fry helps out around the office by announcing to my colleagues which development environment is about to be updated.
Posted in Development at October 28th, 2011 by MB
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My work ordered a keyboard for me. It arrived in a box. Nice.
Posted in Things at October 7th, 2011 by MB
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Update to the update: I’ve made a slight modification to the HTC script to handle mouse-over / hover events better. By “better” I mean “it handles them now.” Thanks to the reader who suggested it. Some time ago I wrote up a hacky way to work around an annoying IE9 bug. The full write-up has [...]
Posted in Development at October 4th, 2011 by MB
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I found this wackiness on the metafilter: How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo. It totally, mostly, works. (I had a few cloves left unpeeled. They were the strongest. The deserve to live.)
Posted in Food and drink at September 29th, 2011 by MB
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Facebook is starting a Political Action Committee. (Facebook, and most major tech companies employ lobbyists – Facebook has been ramping up their presence in DC) Facebook is scaring Dave Winer – Dave Winer writes about ‘frictionless sharing’ – a feature of where sites who partner with Facebook can automatically post to your news feed (and [...]
Posted in Development at September 27th, 2011 by MB
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Shawn Blanc saw the same study I did and found this great looking Mac app for scheduling those breaks.
Posted in Work at September 16th, 2011 by MB
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