September 2010
8 posts
Watcha quick video showing DuckPad in action - with bonus eye tracking footage!
Going Native
As accredited Apple Developers, we have the option to build and make our application available as a native app. Apple currently recommends you create iOS games and apps using their Objective C language, however frameworks such as Phonegap allow us to essentially ‘package’ an app built in web technologies such as HTML5 into a native app.
But why?
Innate benefits include ridding...
CSS3, HTML5's sidekick
Often when people talk about HTML5 (ourselves included), what we really mean is CSS3. HTML5 and CSS3 are bedfellows through and through, and what CSS3 gives us is greater visual sophistication without resorting to graphics, and the opportunity to create front-end animation and effects usually the reserve of JavaScript.
Common visual elements in Web/UI design such as rounded corners, gradients...
DuckPad is featured in Mobile Industry Review →
Fonts on the iPad
Unlike conventional computers, the iPad doesn’t have user installed fonts, nor can it make use of TrueType fonts. This includes our own brand font - Century Gothic.
We solved this using the excellent - http://www.fontsquirrel.com, which allows you to create the custom SVG fonts that the iPad supports. Being able to use custom fonts on websites easily is a fantastic boon to web designers -...
Redirecting non-iPad users
Once the DuckPad project is completed, we’ll be making it publicly accessible online however as it is designed strictly with the iPad in mind it might not work so well on a desktop.
Clement and Khal set about creating a Javascript snippet to redirect non-iPad traffic back to our main website. By using the platform element in the navigator object in the DOM, rather than the UserAgent we...