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, […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of May 5, 2014
This week’s new and updated projects are heavily CSS focused, including Pleeease, CSS Shapes Polyfill, AniJS and DoCSSa. Enjoy! Pleeease is a CSS postprocessor that adds prefixes, variables, pseudo-element and rem unit support, minifies and more.Pleeease · Postprocess CSS with ease The CSS Shapes Polyfill tests for browser support and, if not, it approximates the […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of May 5, 2014
Lots of goodies this week including more Gulp, a great look at creating client-side diff tooling for CSS and a great look at a bunch of sites you can use to get your coding skills stronger through code exercise. Tutorials Can we do DOM traversal without jQuery using vanilla JavaScript? Are newer libraries doing it […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of April 28, 2014
This week’s significant update is that GitHub has open sourced it’s editor Atom. Between Brackets, Atom and (as featured below) Hyro, we’re getting a lot of choices for free, lightweight open-source code editors. GitHub has open sourced their Atom code editor and the related Atom shell that it runs in under the MIT license. A […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of April 28, 2014
This week features some great tutorials and articles. My personal highlights include TJ VanToll’s look at the state of hybrid mobile development (really, a must read if you do PhoneGap), Ana Tudor’s panorama in CSS and Joakim Bengtson discussing his Slush scaffolding tool. Enjoy! Tutorials Rodney Rehm looks at how to identify the DOM context […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of April 21, 2014
Some significant updates and releases this week including Kendo UI Core, Famo.us, Edge.js and much more. As I was away on vacation last week, so this update covers the past two weeks. The CSS Shapes Editor extension for Brackets lets you edit, scale and transform shape values in LivePreview mode. CSS Shapes Editor for Brackets […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of April 21, 2014
So much good stuff to cover this week! I was away on vacation without Internet access (can you believe it!?!), so this post covers the past two weeks. This week features a ton of CSS, SVG and ES6. Anyway, lots to cover, so I won’t waste any more of your time on intros. Tutorials An […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of April 7, 2014
Several recent announcements and big releases this week including Kendo UI Core - a new, free open source version of Kendo UI and Kendo UI Mobile, Ember 1.5.0, Enyo 2.4 and more. Telerik open-sourced under Apache 2 the core of their Kendo UI framework including most of the widgets and all of Kendo UI Mobile. […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of April 7, 2014
Lots of great articles this week, though no real themes stand out. We’ve got lots of CSS and Sass, Pebble watch development, ES6 and ES7, PhoneGap and more. Basically, this week runs the gamut. Tutorials A look at a number of strategies for organizing your CSS code in modular manner for preprocessors by Tim Severien. […]