melonJS is an amazing free standalone javascript engine for creating your own HTML5 games. MelonJS is a work in progress, but it is amazingly easy to use, lightweight and the opportunities to create great games is amazing. Creating levels is very simple with a tiled map editor that anyone can use. melonJS is compatible with the various existing browsers.
If you want to create your own HTML5 games then melonJS is for you!
Fancy a new free jQuery plugin for displaying modal boxes? Well we have come across a great new tool called leanModal. LeanModal is very lightweight and doesnt use any images.
The width and height of the modal box is flexible and adjusts itself according to the content.
So if you are looking for a plugin to display anything but images the leanModal is for you.
Most people dont know that you can develop native iOS applications for the iPhone and iPad by using Javascript. Here is a great tutorial on how to create a native looking iOS application from HTML, CSS and Javascript.
The tutorial includes how to strip away the browser; prevent viewport scrolling and scaling; respond to multi-touch and gesture events; use webkit CSS to get the iPhone OS look and feel; cache the app so it runs without internet access; get a custom icon on the home screen; and have a splash screen load at the start.
Click here to read the full tutorial.
jStat is a free stats library that allows anyone to perform advanced statistical operations without the need of a dedicated statistical language. jStat was designed with simplicity in mind, so anyone can use jStat with ease. Using an object-oriented design provides a clean API that can produce results in a few lines of code. jStat should work in all major browsers.
Have you been looking for a great HTML5 video framework? Then Popcorn.js is the framework for you. Popcorn.js provides an easy-to-use API for synchronizing interactive content. Popcorn.js uses the native HTML video properties and puts them into a simplistic API.
There are many functions provided for controlling the video like getting the duration, setting the playback rate or changing the volume.
LimeJS is a great new Javascript game framework that helps any developer to create HTML5 based games in no time. Games created with LimeJS framework do not require any browser plug-ins or any additional software installation to run – just a modern web browser is needed.
The Current version of LimeJS supports almost all HTML5 capable browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox and even Opera. And of course this also covers two main mobile platforms, namely the iOS (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch) and Android.
AwesomeChartJS ios a brand new open source Javascript library for creating beautiful HTML5 charts. AwesomeChartJS is a standalone library and is very easy to use.
Chart types:
AwesomeChartJS is all about simplicity and this means it doesnt have many customisation options.
For those geeky ones always looking for new ways to improve their websites and web apps, here’s a cool plugin which you can use with JavaScript. AeroWindow is a new jQuery plugin which you can use to create pop-ups with a very neat Aero Glass style.
Access the demo site here.
jQuery is a JavaScript framework which allows programmers to interact with HTML objects, design interfaces and add some interaction with other technologies like AJAX. The scalability you can achieve using this is tremendous, and this plugin is a fine example of that.
You can see on the demo, that the similarity with common Aero windows on Windows Vista or Windows 7 is incredible. Plus, working with the plugin you can use a lot of configurations to customize it anyway you want to.
The following browsers are compatible:
Smokescreen is a new product from RevShock new mobile ad startup based in Austin and San Francisco, which can lead to a revolutionary concept: Convert Flash into HTML5 directly without using any plugin or having to re tool any code.
The software in charge of getting this done has not been released, but here are some of the facts:
Can you imagine the impact this can make into the iPad’s fresh market?
“Many people still want to use their existing Adobe tools for developing ads, and retooling to support a single platform seems silly. As an ad network, we believe that dynamic, interactive ads are much more fun than boring static ads and thus, we were faced with two options: live in a dark, desolate world of boring mobile ads or do something about it”, the guys say about their new vision.
Here’s a very interesting demo:
