By Joni Trythall In using the <svg> element, we are establishing a fragment consisting of nested details in our document. This fragment has its own viewport and coordinate system which can seem very complex and intimidating when you are first getting started. Understanding the workspace of SVG is helpful in properly rendering your artwork, but […]
Ordering CSS for Everyone
By Scott O’Hara I often find myself getting into discussions, or arguments disguised as discussions, about the preferred ordering methods for CSS properties. Yeah. That’s how I party. Anyway, it basically boils down to three different methods that you could follow: Random Ordering (because you hate yourself and others) Ordering via Property Groupings Alphabetically - […]
Convention-based, Modular MVC with Shared Rendering in Node.js
By Nicolas Bevacqua Taunus is a new framework for Node.js that aims to simplify the state of MVC and shared rendering. You may already be rolling your eyes saying, “Another framework?” However, in this article I hope to explain some of the motivation for creating Taunus (its inspiration and my initial goals), what makes it […]
Chrome Killed the Terminal Star
By Krasimir Tsonev I’m not using the terminal anymore. It used to be open all the time, especially when working with Node.js. Nowadays, instead I’m just using Chrome. Yes, Google’s browser. How? There is an extension called Yez! that connects to a Node.js module via web socket. It executes shell commands and returns the result. […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of May 26, 2014
A lot of releases this week including the latest version of the commercial Ext JS framework. Some new tools that seem particularly interesting include Pho Devstack, MotorCortex and Browser-perf. Ext JS 5 includes touch support, responsive layouts, architectural improvements and component upgrades. Announcing Sencha Ext JS 5 flare.js is a small JavaScript library that works […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of May 26, 2014
A good mix or topics in this week’s articles and tutorials covering CORS, SVG, Node, new browser API’s, Sass, Polymer and more - enough that there’s bound to be something in here that helps you with your everyday work. Enjoy. Tutorials Edaqa Mortoray shares specific strategies and settings to open access to your REST API […]
Creating Custom Widgets with JavaScript in Wakanda
By Saad Mousliki 4D, a company known for launching the first graphical relational database for the Macintosh 30 years ago, unveiled a full-stack JavaScript platform for developing business web applications in 2010 named “Wakanda”. Wakanda is an open-source platform allows you to develop Web and mobile business applications using web standards: HTML, CSS, HTTP/REST, JSON-RPC, […]
Unlimited Access with CORS
By Edaqa Mortoray Opening a REST service for browser use requires CORS. Browsers have a very strict cross-domain policy that will either block the request, or just block access to the returned content. If you intend on having an open service, these restrictions will just get in the way. CORS is the answer, but it […]
Animating Inline SVG Icons
By Joni Trythall I recently did some experimenting with animating inline SVG icons. In this article I will quickly review my process and discuss the joys and frustrations I ran into. The demo discussed in the article is below and works on Chrome only for the moment. Scroll down to view all the icons and […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of May 19, 2014
There were a lot of new libraries this week including the App.js UI library for mobile (which shares a name with an older library to build desktop apps with Node, but is unrelated). Also significant is a new version of Google’s Polymer library. Polymer 0.3.0 has new core icons, dependency ranges for all elements in […]