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The web platform in 2017
It seems to be becoming a kind of tradition that at the end of the year I write up a brief summary of the developments in web tech... Read more
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Construct 3 on the Asus Tinker Board
I had heard that Construct 3 works on an Asus Tinker Board - a single-board computer like a Raspberry Pi, but with better hardware... Read more
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Layout is the next frontier of web app performance
In a real web app like Construct 3 , Javascript performance (and DOM calls) are a solved problem. We've been developing a high-per... Read more
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HTML imports are the best web component
We recently launched Construct 3 , an incredibly ambitious port of an entire game development IDE to the browser. This involved po... Read more
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Everyone blames bloated web pages on the browser
Recently I read this critique of Slack's desktop app , which is built with Electron (basically a Chromium-based wrapper like NW.Js... Read more
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HTC 10 cheats battery life benchmarks
The HTC 10 with Nougat (Android 7.0) update appears to be specifically designed to cheat battery life benchmarks. Here's what I've... Read more
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2016 in web technology
I wrote summaries at the end of 2015 and 2014 , and I feel vaguely obliged to keep it up. So - 2016 was a tumultuous year for many... Read more
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publié le 31 Dec, 2016
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You can ignore power-of-two image sizes now
WebGL brings native-grade rendering to the web which Construct 2 games have long taken advantage of, but it always had two minor a... Read more
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WebGL on Raspberry Pi: easier than ever
I've blogged twice before about WebGL on the Raspberry Pi. I think it's awesome that you can get such a cheap and hackable system... Read more
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The case against native engines
One of the most enduring requests from users is for native exporters. We have always strongly believed this Is'nt necessary, and n... Read more
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