Everything you always wanted to know about touch icons
8 weeks ago
Exhaustive rundown on the various touch icons for mobile devices you should supply with your website
html
touch-icons
8 weeks ago
Move The Web Forward
december 2011
Guide to getting involved with standards and browser development
webstandards
december 2011
Fiddler In Action - Part 2
august 2011
In the second half of his Fiddler tutorial, Mehdi Khalili looks at some of the more advanced features it offers. He covers using the QuickExec feature to run any of a set of simple commands for filtering sessions based on a set of criteria, setting breakpoints on individual or groups of requests, and changing items sent to the requesting browser on the fly from both request and response breakpoints. He also covers the AutoResponder, RequestBuilder, Filters tab and FiddlerCap tool for capturing traffic and sending the logs to someone else.
debugging
august 2011
Fiddler In Action - Part 1
august 2011
Mehdi Khalili starts his look at the free Web Debugging Proxy tool fiddle. He begins by explaining how it works, and then presents an overview of its four basic features, monitoring and comparing web sessions, inspecting individual requests and responses, and decrypting https traffic
debugging
august 2011
Swapping out JQuery with Fiddler
august 2011
Eric Lawrence presents a great debugging case study where he uses Fiddler to pass in an alternative version of jQuery than the one specified in the page to the browser.
debugging
august 2011
Sizing with CSS3's vw and vh units
august 2011
Jonathan Snook explains the new vw and vh viewport-relative sizing units in CSS3
css3
august 2011
Bootstrap, from Twitter
august 2011
Twitter have released an open source webdev toolkit called Bootstrap. It contains a baseline css and html framework for your sites that looks not dissimilar to Twitter and full documentation as well.
css
design
framework
august 2011
Real World CSS Practices
august 2011
Matt Ward lists out and explains eight rules he has developed over several years for working with CSS, from code format to conventions to simple typography rules
css
august 2011
CSS Selectors: Just the Tricky Bits
august 2011
Joshua Johnson walks through the various CSS selectors we can use and how they can be combined. He explains parents, children, siblings, descendants and ancestors, the child and sibling selectors, selector chaining, the universal selector, attribute and pseudo-class selectors
css
august 2011
KnockoutJS Needs a Better Set of Tutorials
august 2011
Rob Conery calls out for better tutorials and clean code from Knockout.js writers
javascript
knockout.js
august 2011
Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: You Don't Know JavaScript
august 2011
Michael Woloszynowicz on things to know in Javascript
javascript
august 2011
How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
august 2011
Tali Garsiel takes an indepth look at the internal operations of Webkit and Gecko. She covers, the rendering engine, parsing, DOM trees, render trees, layout, window painting, the thread model and the CSS2 visual model
tutorial
browsers
august 2011
When Visitors Print — About That Print Stylesheet
august 2011
Tim Connell looks at print stylesheets, covering tips for removing items that don't need to be printed, using better fonts for printed matter, adding branding to the printout, dealing with links and other interactive elements, and using the jQuery Print Preview plugin
tutorial
css
print
jquery
august 2011
Understanding “Prototypes” in JavaScript
august 2011
Yehuda Katz looks at Prototypes - objects using syntax defined in ECMAScript 5.1
javascript
prototypes
august 2011
Find the jQuery Bug #1: Chicken or the Egg
august 2011
In the first of a new series, Elijah Manor looks at a typical case of treating asynchronous code as synchronous and the side effects it can have
jquery
debugging
august 2011
Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design
august 2011
Nick Pettit takes a completely fresh look at what responsive Web Design is and how to implement a responsive web site for beginners.
css
responsivewebdesign
tutorial
august 2011
How to : Create Pendulum Clock Using Pure CSS
august 2011
Steve at WebDeveloperJuice demos a CSS3 animated clock along with full CSS code
css3
august 2011
jQuery delete / disappear
august 2011
Cliff Boit demonstrates how to use "jQuery’s animate function to animate the deleting of content on a web page by highlighting the div with a different background color and eventually sliding it up and thus hiding it from view."
jquery
august 2011
Writing your own cross-browser polyfills
august 2011
Addy Osmani investigates why, when and how to write your own cross-browser polyfill script to add browser support for a new feature in newer browsers to their older predecessors.
javascript
polyfill
august 2011
Techniques For Gracefully Degrading Media Queries
august 2011
Lewis Nyman looks at five techniques that deal with browsers which do not support the media queries you’ll be adding to your responsive web designs of the future: doing nothing, conditional IE stylesheets, circumventing media query conditions, respond.js and css3-mediaqueries-js.
css
responsivewebdesign
progressive
respond.js
css3-mediaqueries-js
august 2011
10 of the Best CSS3 Code Generators
august 2011
Criag Buckler looks at ten of the best online tools to generate your CSS3 code for you.
css3
august 2011
Indeterminate Checkboxes
august 2011
Chris Coyier looks briefly at how to implement a third state for a checkbox in addition to (un)checked - indeterminate - and gives a use case for it.
jquery
javascript
august 2011
Introducing the Knockout.Unobtrusive Plugin
august 2011
Brandon Satrom announces the first release of Knockout.Unobtrusive which enables script-based bindings in the knockout.js MVVM framework in addition to the default data-bind syntax
knockout.js
javascript
mvvm
august 2011
Working with HTML Fragments in jQuery
august 2011
Mike at MoreTechTips presents a couple of quick jQuery functions to help deal with HTML fragments returned in an AJAX query. The first creates a wrapper <div> around the fragment and the second prevents the contents of iframes and images in the fragment being loaded automatically by the browser before you've processed them
html
ajax
jquery
august 2011
ES6 Lives!
august 2011
Brendan Eich's latest podcast takes a first look at what may morph into ECMAScript v6
ecmascript
august 2011
Intro to JavaScript and jQuery
august 2011
Girl Develop It Austin still have three places left on their Intro to Javascript and jQuery course.
courses
august 2011
Using JavaScript’s Strict Variant
august 2011
Clark Sell looks at the "Use Strict" command in ECMAScript v5 which prevents a dev from setting undefined a value and demonstrates the errors if you do so when in strict mode
javascript
august 2011
Ask an HTML5 Dev: How do you profile your code?
august 2011
HTML5 Grind start their "Ask an HTML5 Dev" series by asking ten 'forward-thinking' devs how their profile their code.
profiler
august 2011
Bing Maps add support for HTML5 Geolocation
august 2011
Giorgio Sardo announces Bing Maps newly released support for the Geolocation API and demonstrates how it works and how the user will perceive it by default.
geolocation
bingmaps
august 2011
Fastersite: Finding memory leaks
august 2011
"Tony" looks at the problem of memory leaks in Javascript, the problems they will cause and then walks us through a real-world example of using the heap profiler in Chrome to diagnose the issue.
javascript
profiler
august 2011
Review Of Cross-Browser Testing Tools
august 2011
Cameron Chapman runs down a mighty comparison of the current options for comparing your HTML and CSS creations in various browsers without installing them all yourself. He compares Adobe BrowserLab, Browsershots, Expression SuperPreview, Lunascape 6, IETester, IE Netrenderer, Spoon, Browsera, Browserling, Mogotest, Cloud Testing, BrowserCam, Multi-Browser Viewer, and CrossBrowserTesting. Phew!
tools
august 2011
How To: Fix Element Position After Some Scroll Using jQuery
august 2011
Web Developer Juice presents a quick jQuery function that will change an elements CSS position to fixed only after a certain amount of scrolling and revert back to its original value once the page is scrolled back up beyond that point.
jquery
august 2011
Rendering 3D with CSS and javascript with dom3d (guest post)
august 2011
The Mozilla Hacks blog welcomes guest James Long who writes about using the dom3d library which uses CSS to render basic 3d objects. He looks at the pros and cons of this over canvas-based approaches and presents some demos.
dom3d
javascript
august 2011
Sprite3D.js, a javascript library for 3D positionning in WebKit
august 2011
Sprite3D uses CSS3 transforms to let you position Sprite objects in a 3D space on your page. It is independent of other js libraries and of the <canvas> object.
javascript
library
august 2011
Building Mobile JavaScript WebApps With Backbone.js & jQuery - Part 1
august 2011
Addy Osmani starts this series by introducing, looking at the pros and cons of, and then looking in depth at backbone.js, an MVC-like javscript framework.
javascript
backbone.js
jquerymobile
labjs
august 2011
Javascript Show Episode 9
august 2011
Peter Cooper and Jason Seifer present episode 9 of this podcast. It looks at Firebug 1.8, Rubberband scrolling, JavaScript screenshots, and more. Full show notes at the link
javascript
august 2011
Perfectly Rotate and Mask Thumbnails With CSS3
august 2011
Jim Neilsen demonstrates how to use CSS transforms to take a standard image thumbnail and mask \ rotate it to produce a stylish look to your page. Warning! Contains a fair amount of maths!
css
august 2011
The first www page
august 2011
20 years after Tim Berners-Lee made this page public, we're still at it.
html
history
august 2011
12 Interactive Javascript Lessons
august 2011
Nathan Whitehead presents a dozen interactive lessons on javascript programming looking at closures, variables and values, functions, side effects, scope, private data, asynchronous callbacks and continuation passing.
javascript
tutorial
august 2011
CSSOM View Module Draft Published
august 2011
Anne van Kesteren has released a Working Draft of the CSSOM View Module. This is the API to be used to inspect and alter the view of a document (a la Responsive Web Design).
w3c
cssom
august 2011
jQuery Mobile Beta 2 Released!
august 2011
The jQuery mobile team announce their beta2 release detailing current phone compatibility and new features
jquery
august 2011
MIX Online: 10K Apart: The Responsive Edition
august 2011
Nishant Kothary announce the launch of this year's 10K Apart competition. The challenge? The best Responsive HTML5 app you can build in 10k zipped by Sep 12. Good luck!!
10kapart
august 2011
Testing Your JavaScript with Jasmine
august 2011
Andrew Burgess runs through the Jasmine BDD testing framework. He establishes the BDD vs TDD difference, looks at Jasmine syntax and its built-in matcher functions, how to set up a standalone Jasmine project (it can be integrated with Rails), how to write the tests and read the test report
javascript
bdd
jasmine
august 2011
d3.js
august 2011
D3 is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating HTML documents based on data. D3 can help you quickly visualize your data as HTML or SVG, handle interactivity, and incorporate smooth transitions and staged animations into your pages. You can use D3 as a visualization framework (like Protovis), or you can use it to build dynamic pages (like jQuery).
framework
javascript
august 2011
Full Awesome with dojo.partial and MooTools' Function.partial
august 2011
David Travers looks at the Dojo Toolkit's dojo.partial helper method which allows you to call a method with additional arguments tacked on to the call. He looks at the syntax and scenarios where you'd use it.
javascript
dojotoolkit
august 2011
Cross-Browser CSS in Seconds with Prefixr
august 2011
Jeffrey Way introduces Prefixr, an online utility that will add in all the vendor-prefixed css attributes to your stylesheet on your behalf. There is a video to demo Prefixr, an alpha online site to paste in your CSS and instructions on the Prefixr API so you can use it locally.
css3
august 2011
HTML5 and IE workshop by the water at Microsoft Webcafe, August 25th in Brussels
august 2011
Bart Vande Ghinste announce registration is now open for a free afternoon workshop Aug 25 before the Microsoft Webcafe event at the same venue in the evening. The two topics covered will be creating HTML5 Canvas animations and implementing Internet Explorer 9 Site Pinning in a few clicks
events
august 2011
Why You Should Use XMLHttpRequest Asynchronously
august 2011
Dom R reports that 8.4% of all hangs in IE9 in the past month are caused by XMLHttpRequest objects blocking the UI thread with a synchronous request. He demonstrates how to highlight the error and how to fix it.
javascript
ajax
august 2011
CSS3 Transitions Without Using :hover
august 2011
Louis Lazaris looks at other ways to use CSS3 transitions beyond the mouseover style colour-changes with the :hover pseudo-class. He looks at combining them with :active, :focus, :checked, :disabled, and media queries and how they might be used.
css3
august 2011
Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Prototype Pattern - Dan Wahlin's WebLog
august 2011
In part 4 of his series on Javascript patterns, Dan Wahlin looks at the revealing prototype pattern, which offers the benefits of the Revealing Module Pattern but also provides a way to share function implementations across object instances through prototyping
javascript
august 2011
Sandboxing JavaScript
august 2011
Dustin Diaz looks at using the JS with() statement with the context design pattern as a way to sandbox and work with a development version of a library while also using the production version
javascript
designpatterns
august 2011
One JavaScript Design Pattern I Can’t Live Without
august 2011
James Edwards details how to implement a self-executing singleton — " a single-use object that’s easy to refer-to and integrate, and straightforward to use!"
javascript
august 2011
The future of CSS layouts
august 2011
Peter Gasston looks at what CSS3 has to offer for content layout beyond floats and relative positioning. He looks at the multi-columns module, the flexible box layout module, the grid layout module, the template layout module, positioned floats, CSS exclusions and CSS regions
css3
august 2011
jQuery CSS3 3D Animation
august 2011
Richard Leggett documents the sticking points he encountered while building a jQuery extension which adds support for modifying and animating CSS tranformations in 2D and 3D. He covers browser support, filters, blend modes, performance, animation and transitions. A demo of his extension is also available.
jquery
css3
csstranformations
august 2011
Techniques, Strategies and Patterns for Structuring JavaScript Code–Revealing Module Pattern - Dan Wahlin's WebLog
august 2011
In part 3 of his series on writing neat javascript, Dan Wahlin looks at the Revealing Module Pattern, a cleaner alternative to the Prototype pattern.
javascript
designpatterns
august 2011
Text templating using Razor the easy way
august 2011
Quick runthrough of using the RazorGenerator addin to generate docs
razor
asp.net
documentation
vs2010
addins
august 2011
Columnal
august 2011
A new CSS grid framework supporting up to 12 columns using media queries to promote responsive web design in its users. Columnal is a cross between cssgrid.net and 960.gs
css
framework
responsivewebdesign
august 2011
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