Matteo Spinelli's Cubiq.org

Add to Homescreen v2.0.5

Matteo Spinelli — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:18:58 +0000

Add to Home Screen received some lovin' today. I finally managed to fix some small but nasty bugs. As always true for +0.0.1 versions, you should update asap.

InfiniWall

Matteo Spinelli — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:19:57 +0000

InfiniWall is a script for desktop and mobile that lets you pan/scroll a potentially infinite number of elements on screen. It is obsessively optimized for mobile devices that notoriously have troubles handling a large number of tags at the same time (especially images).

It’s update Saturday!

Matteo Spinelli — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:13:34 +0000

Finally I found a couple of hours to fix some bugs for SwipeView and iScroll. If you use either you should update asap.

Device orientation augmented UI the CSS way

Matteo Spinelli — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:26:40 +0000

Someone recently discovered a nice GUI touch in the upcoming iPhone operating system (iOS6), metallic button reflections change as you tilt the device (video on youtube). Can it be done on the browser with just CSS? Of course it can, with a pinch of JS.

Project Underpants explained

Matteo Spinelli — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:00:19 +0000

This weekend my good friend Mark Boas and I released the Underpants Project, a proof of concept aimed to raise awareness over the lack of privacy on the internet. The 1-day-project received quite a few of attention and it's time to give you an insider look on how it works.

Weird webkit box-shadow bug

Matteo Spinelli — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:21:02 +0000

Today I finally received my new iPad and to my surprise some CSS intensive applications seemed to run smoother on an iPad 1 than on the new shiny Apple tablet.

Hexagame, the making of an HTML5 game

Matteo Spinelli — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:25:02 +0000

I was disappointed by canvas performance on mobile devices but CSS animations seemed good enough even for CPU intensive applications. I wanted to find out if I could build a video game out of pure HTML5 and CSS so I started working on Hexagame.

Important “Add to Home Screen” updates

Matteo Spinelli — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:25:42 +0000

Since the beginning the Add to Home Screen script raised some usability concerns. Version 2.0 tries to dissipate these concerns giving the user (and the developer) more control. Where is the limit between a cool feature and an annoying practice? At the end this is just a tool, use it with discretion.

Build and publish an HTML5 game for iPad – Part 3

Matteo Spinelli — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:24:46 +0000

A bit late on the roadmap due to an hard disk failure, here comes the third episode of the saga. This time I'm going to show you a quick screencast and you'll finally discover what the game will be about.

Build and publish an HTML5 game for iPad – Part 2

Matteo Spinelli — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:12:40 +0000

The HTML5 game development holds steady, last week I was experimenting with web sql, localStorage and the PhoneGap APIs. I admit that it is slightly more complicated than I initially estimated, but it wouldn't be fun if it weren't challenging.