Tag Archives: html

Fullscreen HTML5 Video in Safari via JavaScript

01/07/2010 – 10:58 pm

In Safari 5 HTML5 videos played in the <video> tag can now be made full­screen, if you’re using the default con­trols then a but­ton is avail­able, but if you’re over­rid­ing them with a cus­tom con­trol you can use: web­kit­En­ter­Full­Screen(); This needs to be called on the video tag ele­ment, for example, to full­screen the first video tag on […]

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Site Seeing — Week Three

19/05/2010 – 10:25 am

Css Desk — An Online CSS Sandbox http://cssdesk.com/ A great web app for play­ing around with HTML and CSS in the browser, would be inter­est­ing to see if it works on the iPad. Pictaculous — A Colour Palette Generator http://www.pictaculous.com/ Pictaculous (from MailChimp) lets you upload or email a photo and then gen­er­ates a col­our palette from it. You […]

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Site Seeing — Week Two

24/04/2010 – 12:51 am

Sikuli — Screenshot Based Computer Automation http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/demo.shtml Sikuli is a visual tech­no­logy to search and auto­mate graph­ical user inter­faces (GUI) using images (screen­shots). Probably not the most effi­cient way to auto­mate tasks, but an inter­est­ing one non­ethe­less, hard to explain what it does, but if you’re inter­ested in com­puter auto­ma­tion, watch the demos. Hilite — Source […]

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Disabling ‘hold to copy’ on Mobile Safari

06/04/2010 – 10:20 pm

If you want to dis­able the ‘Cut / Copy / Paste’ invoked by hold­ing down on an ele­ment in Safari on the iPhone or iPad use the css: –webkit-user-select: none; However, as stressed by Apple, this should only be dis­abled on a per ele­ment basis, and never applied to the whole doc­u­ment. Apple’s Technical Note TN2262: Preparing Your […]

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