How to get hidden, autoplaying audio in html5 on iOS

How to get hidden, autoplaying HTML5 audio on iOS (now with added hackiness!)

Let me start this article the same way I started my previous article about this topic: don’t autoplay audio. Autoplaying audio is the worst thing on the web and nobody will visit your site if you play audio without permission. It’s a bad, bad thing and people will hate you for it. Your dog will run away and your best friend will kick you in the face.

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How to get hidden, autoplaying audio in html5 on iOS

How to get hidden, autoplaying audio in html5 on iOS

Let me start this with a warning: If you’re making a website and you think autoplaying audio in the background is a great idea, you’re wrong. Very, very wrong.

Autoplaying audio, especially hidden autoplaying audio, is a terrible idea. Continue reading ‘How to get hidden, autoplaying audio in html5 on iOS’

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How to install/Update Eclipse on Windows, Linux and Mac

Here at Flax.ie we really like the eclipse IDE and use it for all out development whether it be Google web toolkit, Android, Java, HTML5, etc. So naturally we will have quite a few tutorials on working with eclipse so we don’t want to have to describe how to install eclipse every time even though it’s extremely simple, so here it is. Continue reading ‘How to install/Update Eclipse on Windows, Linux and Mac’

How to play PC Steam games on Mac OS X

How to play PC Steam games on Mac OS X

So, Steam (a well-known game-to-computer content delivery system) recently released for Mac OS X, and as of today, only one hundred of the games available on Steam are cross-platform. It’s a start, but it’s not yet the revolution every Mac gamer would like it to be. To this end, I’ve made a short how-to so that you can play some of Steam’s PC-only games on Mac OS X.

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