Dmitri Lau

Dmitri Lau

Dmitri Lau is a freelance Ajax developer and a proud proponent of HTML5 standards. With a background in Machine Learning and Content Management, when not spending time with his family, Dmitri walks the streets of Mongkok offering advice to independent entrepreneurs.

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Dmitri Lau

HTML5, Older Browsers and the Shiv

By | April 22, 2013 | Browsers | HTML5 | JavaScript | Programming

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Dmitri Lau looks at how to use the HTML5Shiv tool to address the inability of certain older browsers to correctly interpret some HTML5 elements.Read More
 

Simple Animations Using requestAnimationFrame

By | March 14, 2013 | JavaScript | Programming

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Dmitri Lau explores how the helper function requestAnimationFrame can make animations silky smooth, yet not too demanding on your CPU.Read More
 

Building a Low Memory Web Application

By | February 20, 2013 | Intermediate | JavaScript | Raw Javascript

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With the rise in mobile devices and tablets, web applications are frequently being loaded in slow and low memory environments. When building a web application, one may consider making design choices... Read More
 
 

Building a Twitter Widget using Distal

By | April 6, 2012 | HTML5 | Programming

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I’ll show you how to build a Twitter widget for your website that downloads the latest tweets from your twitter account using Twitter’s search API, and displays them in a table. To download the... Read More