Cosy Orbs – Web App Games in HTML5 for the iPhone
[Concrete/Interesting] In this article I’m going to talk about HTML5 Canvas and graphics programming for web apps. I’ll be focusing on my experience and as way of example, I will be talking about ‘Cosy Orbs’ – a very simple, interactive graphics web application. Installing Cosy Orbs You can install Cosy Orbs onto your iPhone by following the link below in Safari: http://www.lowrieweb.com/iphone/cosyorbs Once the page has loaded, ‘Add to Home Screen’ by selecting the ‘+’ icon on the navigation bar at the bottom of the Safari page. Cosy Orbs will now be placed on your home screen and can be run by clicking the application icon. About Cosy Orbs In 1999, the moon was knocked out of its orbit by a nuclear waste explosion, sending all 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha into outer space. Also, like a lot of other people, I was looking at Java and Java Applets. Working my way through the SDK and samples, I came across a sample called ‘Graph Layout’ . I was quite impresse...