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A brief history of graphics on the web and WebGPU
Graphics technologies have changed a lot over the years, including on the web, and the web is on the cusp of its next big change w... Read more
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Performance isolation for HTML5 games with Web Workers
I mentioned on Twitter it might be nice to get back in to blogging while the world's in lockdown. So here we go, the first in hope... Read more
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published on 27 Mar, 2020
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Construct's effect compositor: part 2
This is the second blog in a series about the code in Construct that renders effects, called the effect compositor . In case you m... Read more
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published on 10 Aug, 2018
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Construct's effect compositor: part 1
One of the cool things you can do in Construct is add multiple effects to an object. For example you can add a Warp effect to dist... Read more
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published on 9 Aug, 2018
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Optimising events with function binding
Shortly after finishing the expression-to-JavaScript compiler , I realised a couple of the performance tricks we used there could... Read more
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published on 30 May, 2018
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How browsers should handle autoplay restrictions
It's annoying when web pages unexpectedly blare out audio, so I can understand why Chrome 66 changes when web pages can autoplay a... Read more
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published on 8 May, 2018
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Edge 17 supports open media codecs
We've long blogged about media codecs (the formats that audio and video are stored in) on the web. Two of our first five ever blog... Read more
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published on 1 May, 2018
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Software development is hard: a collision bug post-mortem
Recently we received a bug report of a mysterious collision issue that only happened at certain positions. It turned out to be a s... Read more
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published on 23 Apr, 2018
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Blame in technology, and the aardvark case
When something goes wrong in technology, knowing who to blame is a surprisingly difficult problem. Despite having dealt with thous... Read more
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published on 29 Mar, 2018
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Why JavaScript needs cross-heap collection
Web Workers allow a page to create multiple Javascript contexts which run in parallel to each other. This is great for performance... Read more
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published on 21 Jan, 2018