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 [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of May 19, 2014
This was a extremely busy week and, despite the length of this list, I honestly had to make a lot of tough decisions on what to include to keep it even this long. This week also featured a bunch of mobile-focused posts - and in case you haven’t heard, Holly Schinsky and I are collaborating [...]
Building Your First Grunt Plugin
By Mykyta Semenistyi Client-side build systems have gained huge popularity due to the growth in complexity of frontend development. This growth in complexity is due to two main reasons: the migration of functional responsibilities to client-side and presentation enhancements. The oldest and probably most well-known of these build systems is Grunt. Its popularity has helped [...]
Dynamic CSS with DynCSS
By Vittorio Zaccaria DynCSS is a small Javascript add-on for your web pages. It parses your CSS and converts all the rules with prefix -dyn-* into dynamic Javascript that is executed on browser’s events like scroll and resize. For example, the following CSS will center vertically .header, dynamically changing margin-top as the window is resized: [...]
Introduction to the Ambient Light API
By Aurelio De Rosa Until few years ago when developing a website, we had to rely on several third-party plugins to achieve a lot of tasks. To remember those times, we don’t have to look too far back. Just recall what you used to do when you needed to embed a video or audio in [...]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of May 12, 2014
Some interesting services in this week’s update including Finch for testing sites and Fenix for ad-hoc web servers. There was also a new version of MooTools, which, I must admit, I didn’t even realize was still around - but apparently it is not only still around, but still actively being developed. Finch is a service [...]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of May 12, 2014
Lots of goodness this week and some “badness,” sort of, in the form of posts warning us of the dangers of stopping event propagation and using async scripts. Still, important even if not awesome. Fans of this site may notice that I also stopped the Monday article dump. From a planning standpoint, this was easier, [...]