Tag Archives: JavaScript

Fire effect using HTML5 canvas element

I have released JavaScript library to create an effect of burning text. There are number of options that you can customize – colors, font and burning speed. You can see the demo and play with all the options at ponticstar.com/projects/burning-words. The script uses canvas element that is a part of HTML5 specification. The element is [...]

Compressed Nifty Corners

Recently I was experimenting with different techniques and libraries that implement rounded corners with no images. Nifty Corners Cube by Alessandro Fulciniti was among them. I liked the fact that the library detected background color and padding of the target element. This allows the technique to degrade gracefully if JavaScript is disabled. As a rule [...]