Making HTML5 audio actually work on mobile
This story starts when we had to provide audio to an HTML5 game we were building.
The game is for mobile browsers, actually a limited and updated range of mobile browsers: Safari for iOS 6+, and the stock browser (i.e. the default browser) for Android 4+. With the well known scaling trick (CSS “transform: scale(…)”) which we built in our mobile app, we got it to run quite nicely in all resolutions, so also on desktop browsers. Hence we would want our audio solution to work also on desktops.
WordPress mb.miniAudioPlayer, a short tutorial
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Dr4aUNGgo] I just published a major update of the miniAudioPlayer plugin for WordPress. This video shows how it works and how you can customize each instance of the player on your WordPress posts. You can get this plug in from…
jQuery.mb.bgndGallery 1.6 & CSS3 transform
[youtube_sc url=http://youtu.be/A2sc9Xvr0sc] I just made a major update for the mb.bgndGallery component. The most consistent improve is that the gallery now supports transitions between images using the transform propery. That means you can make custom transitions using the scale, rotate…
Just updated the jquery.mb.gallery to v. 2.1
I just published a new update of the jquery.mb.gallery with an Ajax demo usage and many other stuff. Once for all two demos for the thumbnail gallery forgotten in the past release. Give it a chance 🙂
The WordPress mb.YTPlayer plugin has been updated to v. 0.5
Background video made easy. I’ve just update the WordPress background video component at version 0.5 adding a feature to the TinyMCE editor that makes really easy the inclusion of the background video in your WordPress page via the post editor….
Play any YouTube video as background of your WordPress blog
[youtube_sc url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCK_iBU82k8] Any WordPress user can now set a video as blog background – it can be really beautiful! WordPress has just approved the porting of jQuery.mb.YTPlayer component for their platform: mb.YTPlayer background videos. From today you can easily…
ContainerPlus has been rewritten
jQuery.mb.containerPlus is going to have a new life. jQuery.mb.containerPlus is one of the most appreciated jquery plug-in of mine (more than 25.000 downloads till now) and I decided it was time to radically update the code. There are many improvements…
jQuery.mb.YTPlayer has a new update (1.3.7)
A new important update for mb.YTPlayer component! Adding a simple parameter the player will fit the window size according to its aspect ratio. This way you can remove the ugly black strips from the screen :-). Implemented additional parameters for…
mb.YTPlayer updated to version 1.3
This is a great update for this component. You can now control the player also when it’s set as background! Give it a try!