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- Jan 16 2014
Building HTML5 Games with GSN Games
HTML5 is ready for mobile Open Web games. Flash is absent or disappearing on mobile devices. Meanwhile, in the US and the UK, 20% of Internet users are mobile-only, and in some markets more than half of Internet users are mobile-only. It is widely held that the next two billion people coming online in the […]
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Building HTML5 Games with GSN Games - Jun 07 2012
Communicating Between Views in Client-Side Apps
I got to hear some great presentations and have some great conversations at last week’s inaugural Backbone Conf, and one thing that came up over and over again was how to effectively communicate between views in client-side applications. There are lots of patterns for doing this — and we love talking patterns at Bocoup — […]
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- performance,
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- Jun 05 2012
Third-Party JavaScript Development: The Future!
I’ve just returned from the future, and I have a lot to share with you. World news, sports scores, market changes, all that stuff can wait. First, we need to talk about third-party JavaScript. There’s a great deal of browser technology on the way that will affect the way you write code. Here, I’ll focus […]
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- May 11 2012
Introducing boxbox
Bocoup loves HTML5 games, so Darius Kazemi and I have been running a training called Intro to HTML5 Game Development. We cover lots of fun stuff, including canvas animation and audio. When designing the training, we wanted trainees to make a simple game using a JavaScript physics engine. Box2dWeb came up as a good one […]
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JavaScript: WebRTC in Opera Mobile 12
Yesterday, Opera announced and released the latest version of its mobile browser, Opera Mobile 12. Today, while running the browser against the Ringmark suite, I noticed that it was now passing the WebRTC detection tests. Very exciting, indeed! To test drive the first ever mobile browser implementation of WebRTC, I decided to use dmv — […]
Continue ReadingJavaScript: WebRTC in Opera Mobile 12 - Jan 10 2012
Introducing The Backbone Boilerplate
Over the past year Bocoup has worked on several production applications that utilize the MVC library Backbone.js. We’ve worked hard to give back to the community through informative blog posts, core contributions, support & evangelism through various mediums such as meetups, IRC and Twitter. Over the course of the past year, we created small boilerplates […]
Continue ReadingIntroducing The Backbone Boilerplate - Sep 02 2011
HTML5 Video: Synchronizing Playback of Two Videos
Upon first thought, you might think that synchronized playback of two video elements would be simple – however – because the timeupdate event of the video element is indeterminate beyond its specification description of “Every 15 to 250ms, or whenever the MediaController’s media controller position changes”, this is actually non-trivial. Today, on the Web Made […]
Continue ReadingHTML5 Video: Synchronizing Playback of Two Videos - Aug 19 2011
Spoofing User-Agent with Chrome’s WebRequest API
Whenever you ask for a page on the web, your request has a lot of data attached to it. One part of your request (the “user-agent” string) describes your software environment—usually your operating system and your browser’s name and version number. Like many things on the web, this data is a convention, not a law. […]
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- tutorial,
- web applications
- Jul 15 2011
Benchmarking WebGL Particle Effects
Bocoup is excited to announce that we are working with Gradient Studios to port the hit mobile game Fieldrunners, by Subatomic Studios, to HTML5. This is the first in a series of weekly development blog posts. One of the earliest tasks in porting an existing game to a new platform is to assess feasibility. This […]
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- Jun 23 2011
Synchronizing HTML5 Slides with Node.js
I gave a talk in February on Advanced jQuery Templates that had an interesting and unique twist. Instead of changing slides using traditional presentation delivery methods such as a clicker or a laptop keyboard, I used my smartphone which made asynchronous calls to a Node.js server. The server then propagated events to all connected viewers, regardless of […]
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