Tag Archives: JavaScript

Fire effect using HTML5 canvas element

By Michael Ryvkin on Saturday, April 17, 2010

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 [...]

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Compressed Nifty Corners

By Michael Ryvkin on Friday, January 16, 2009

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 [...]

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