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Captivate HTML Javascript

Reverse engineering Captivate for HTML5 widgets

Adobe Captivate is pretty horrible, especially the HTML5 output. I feel like I’m banging my head against a wall every time I use it. The HTML5 output is riddled with bugs and most of the features simply don’t work. If there is one upside to the HTML5 publishing though (and there aren’t many), it’s the […]

November 28, 2013

Inspiration Interactive Mobile UI Video

Inspiring Inspiration #13

A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…

November 11, 2013

Multitouch

Setting up BSQSimulator with CCV

I decided to compile the links and instructions for setting up BSQSimulator for my own future reference and to hopefully help others out. The directions are buried in the NUIGroup forums somewhere and can sometimes be difficult to find, with different versions requiring various MS Surface files. The files you’ll need: BSQSimulator2 (beta) direct download […]

November 10, 2013

CSS Experiments HTML

Melbourne train map in CSS

About three weeks ago I was showing my team at work the london CSS tube map and I jokingly put forward the challenge for the first person to make the Melbourne map in CSS gets a dollar. But after looking at the map properly I realised that it actually wouldn’t be that hard – far […]

October 29, 2013

After Effects Inspiration UI Video Web Development

Inspiring Inspiration #12

A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…

September 20, 2013

Web Development

A new blog design

PurpleSquirrels has gone responsive. I have just flicked the switch on the new PurpleSquirrels design. The new design – which I have been working on over the last few weeks – is now responsive which will make it much easier to read content on mobile devices as it adapts to smaller screens. I had been […]

September 2, 2013

Experiments HTML iOS Javascript Web Development

Webcam to canvas or data URI with HTML5 and Javascript

This post has been sitting around unfinished since April so I thought I should finish it and get it out there. In this post I am going to show how you can capture an image from a webcam via JavaScript and convert it to a Data URI which can then be saved in a database […]

August 28, 2013

Captivate HTML Javascript

Creating HTML5 widgets for Adobe Captivate 6/7

I decided to write this post due to the frustration and lack of information out there on how to make HTML5 widgets for Adobe Captivate. There is almost no documentation on this and the only useful article I could find was riddled with mistakes. My approach may not be the best but this should get […]

August 27, 2013

After Effects Inspiration Motion Video

Inspiring Inspiration #11

A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…

July 16, 2013

ActionScript Adobe AIR Flash

Windows ANE for native dialogs

My post on creating native alerts with Adobe AIR has proven to be quite popuplar so I decided to follow it up with something even better (at least for Windows apps). Recently I have been dabbling in a bit of C# for creating Windows Store apps as well as some C/C++ to try and figure […]

May 24, 2013

CSS Web Development

Hover shine effect with pure CSS

This is a simple example of a mouse-over shine effect I created using purely CSS. It uses a CSS generated element and CSS3 transitions to animate the effect. See the comments in the markup below for further explanation of how it works. Live demo Click Me The code Simple HTML markup: And the CSS:

April 24, 2013

CSS HTML Javascript

Windows 8 start screen in HTML, CSS and Javascript

About 7 or 8 months ago I built a tile based launch page at work to launch learning modules which looked similar to the Windows 8 start screen. When I had spare time I kept building on and adding 3D animations to match it even closer to Windows 8. Then I kind of forgot about […]

April 21, 2013