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YouTube player, AS3 and Fullscreen

In the post YouTube JavaScript Player API, I appreciated that the YouTube JavaScript API does not have any method to show the video in full screen mode. Therefore, if we want to create our own HTML controls to play the video and add a button to display it in full screen mode we …

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Cinema 4D R14 help

I have published the help of Cinema 4D, as Maxon does not do it, in a Dropbox account accessible via web. The ideal thing would be that Maxon publishes the help of the program in its web, in a similar way as Adobe does, and users can make comments in the pages. At first, I …

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Illustrator and SVG

Some vector design tools as Inkscape or Illustrator allow using SVG format with different results. My objective is to try Illustrator and analyze if it is the most suitable tool to create and manipulate SVG files. First of all, we have to configure the work space in Illustrator to work with SVG and we also …

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Use of @font-face to make icons with different colors

For some time now, we are seeing the use of @font-face to load fonts which contain icons instead of letters. Although as much the advantages as the disadvantages of this use are quite arguable, the disadvantage which has called most my attention is to not be able to make icons with different colors, which is true …

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Creating basic shapes with SVG

SVG contains the following elements to create basic shapes: RECT, CIRCLE, ELLIPSE, LINE, POLYLINE, POLYGON. We also have the PATH element with which we could create any shape including the previous ones already named. We will see how to create the different basic shapes with SVG and JavaScript. We have to take into account that, …

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