dawnerd

So what’s happened to ThirdStyle?

dawnerd — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:01:15 +0000

A few months ago, FlashFlashRevolution went offline without a peep from James (Synthlight). As a result, the community at Tasselfoot.com came together and started planning a revival of the game. The decided name of the new site was ThirdStyle. If you don’t know, ThirdStyle is really an inside joke from FlashFlashRevolution; a game that would never be released.

Summerschool, NSane, LD, and myself set out on creating the new site. Summerschool and I used to work together on FFR back when, well, we were actually paid employees. Development went strong, traffic was amazing. Eventually Summerschool took over of ThirdStyle game development, while I handled backend development. We even got our own dedicated server just for it.

About two weeks ago Mike (Tasselfoot) made contact with me in regards to merging ThirdStyle into FFR. Now at first I thought “Why the hell would I do all this work to just hand it over?” But I decided to humor the idea and meet with Mike to see what he said. We met last Tuesday during my lunch break.

So without rambling on, let me get to the point. TS will be no more. It will eventually be merged into FFR. It is unlikely that I will have anything to do with FFR from this point on. I don’t want anything to do with it.

UPDATE: I should have been more clear. TS in its current form will be no more. I am not giving up on it. FFR though, I will have no involvement with.

UPDATE 2: TS is coming back in a different way. It will not be replacing FFR, only complementing it. The game will be hosted on TS, not FFR. If FFR decides they want a new engine, they can talk to Isak or myself and we can setup a deal.

Please stop asking me why FFR is down

dawnerd — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:22:09 +0000

Yes, I know FlashFlashRevolution.com is down. I can only guess why. Just please stop asking me; there’s nothing I can do. Synth probably ran out of money and decided to not put himself into more debt. I really don’t blame him.

Thanks for not bugging me.

Featured On HTML-FIVE.net

dawnerd — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:58:34 +0000

Looks like this new layout isn’t that bad at all. It was at least semi good enough to be placed into this showcase. Lets just say it made my day.

Thanks whoever you are at html-five.net!

Making Internet Explorer HTML 5 Ready

dawnerd — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:49:19 +0000

I’m going to come right out and say that it’s likely to take IE years before we see native HTML 5 support. However, that doesn’t mean we should ignore HTML 5 until IE gets with the program.

If you’ve tried to mess around with HTML 5 in IE, you may have noticed that the new elements do not work correctly with css. Luckily for us, we can use a tiny bit of Javascript to trick IE into rending the HTML 5 elements correctly.

document.createElement('header');
document.createElement('footer');
document.createElement('aside');
document.createElement('nav');
document.createElement('article');
document.createElement('section');

The above snippet of Javascript will enable HTML 5 support for the following elements: header, footer, aside, nav, article, section. Should you need support for another element, just use the createElement function and set the parameter to be the element name.

Remember that you should only include the JS file with the ‘HTML 5 emulation’ code on IE.

Our next task in a later post is to emulate the video and audio elements.

Open Source jQuery Plugin – AjaxPages

dawnerd — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:55:28 +0000

AjaxPages allows you to serve up full pages completely with ajax. This is very useful if you want to build a site that has a music player running across page loads, but don’t want to use frames. This technique can be found at TheSixtyOne.

All internal links should be in hash format. Example: instead of linking to filename.html, you would link to #/filename.html.

If you have clean urls on, the hash is almost not noticeable. Example: domain.com/#/profile/username

To get started with AjaxPages, get the files from the Google Code trunk. Example files are included. That should be enough to get you started. The plugin is very lightweight and fairly simple so it should not give you any problems.

If you need help, please leave a comment and I will personally help you out.