by Brian Rinaldi Building a content web site and making it successful is not like “Field of Dreams” wherein “if you build it, they will come.” First of all, just building isn’t easy. Even if choosing a platform proves a simple decision, you’ve only gotten past the easiest part. Generating good content on a consistent […]
Doing More with Sass’ @each Control Directive
By Scott O’Hara I recently wrote an article about the different Sass control directives and how even writing basic directives could be used to code leaner Sass. In this article, I’d like to take a closer look at the @each directive, Sass variable lists and maps. Combining these features can make for some powerful results […]
Creating Modular View Components with React and Grunt
By Simon Smith One of the libraries gaining a lot of interest recently is Facebook’s React JS library. It mainly concerns itself with “the V in MVC” and encourages developers to break their app into resuable, modular components. The Virtual DOM is a great feature on its own, and I encourage you to investigate React […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of March 3, 2014
The big news recently was the release of Sass 3.3. Sorry for the delay in getting this out but I am speaking and attending the Fluent Conference this week. If you are here, please say hello. Sass 3.3 includes maps in SassScript, support for generating source maps and much more. Sass 3.3 is Released Francois […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of March 3, 2014
Some really interesting tutorials this week. On this site, I thought TJ VanToll’s look at whether jQuery is too big for mobile was excellent and Guy Levy’s take on using the Levenshtein distance algorithm to improve the results of the web speech API was very clever and useful. Burke Holland wrote a good look at […]
Is jQuery Too Big For Mobile?
By TJ Van Toll This question gets asked a lot, and I’ve yet to see a data-based exploration of this topic. Terms like “big” and “bloated” are relative terms; they don’t mean anything without numbers to back them up. The real question should be - “Does the size of jQuery adversely affect the users of […]
Improving Speech Recognition in the Browser
By Guy Levy It seems like the future is all about talking to your devices, whether it is a your smart-phone,game console, TV, Google Glass or plain old PC. We even have a Web Speech API in the browser that gives web developers access to speech recognition. Still, there is a small problem: the speech […]
A DOM Manipulation Class in 100 Lines of JavaScript
By Krasimir Tsonev If you build web applications you probably deal with the DOM a lot. Accessing and manipulating DOM elements is a common requiement of nearly every web application. Very often we collect information from different controls, we need to set values, change the content of div or span tags. Of course there are […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of February 24, 2014
This week features multiple task runners/build tools (Bud and Broccoli) and multiple Web Audio libraries (webaudiox.js and jsfx). Capo is a project and Sublime plugin that helps keep track of event triggers/subscriptions in JavaScript projects. Javascript Event-Driven Architecture-Doing it better with Capo Module Nodyn enables the use of Java libraries within Node, but, according to […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of February 24, 2014
This week features lots of CSS, (relatively) new JavaScript API’s and a number of interesting tutorials covering a wide array of libraries and frameworks. Tutorials Tim Severien discusses the history of handling grids in CSS and new features in CSS3 that improve the situation. Grids in CSS3 Thomas Palef continues his tutorial on making a […]