Monthly Archives: January 2012

CSS & SVG

Posted on January 31, 2012 by bear

With the addition of CSS transitions and transforms, web developers can create interactive content with relatively simple markup. Understanding how to use these features with SVG, which has its own transform and animation systems, can be a little difficult. For … Continue reading →

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Displaying XHR Downloaded Images Using the File API

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Max Vujovic

Last time, we proposed adding progress events on the image element to avoid the complexity of using XHR to monitor image download progress. In order to display the image in the XHR approach, we used base 64 encoding to convert … Continue reading →

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HTML5 Image Progress Events

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Max Vujovic

Suppose you want to display the download progress of high-resolution images in a medical imaging application or an HTML5 game. Currently, this is a little harder than it should be in HTML5/JavaScript. A common approach goes like this: Download the … Continue reading →

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