Lots of interesting new projects this week! Avow-CI is a continuous integration server specifically designed for JavaScript projects built on Node.js and MongoDB. Avow-CI Shower is an HTML presentation engine with a simple, clean look and feel that can be easily exported to PDF. shower Mochi is a new touch-focused UI library for the Enyo […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of March 31, 2014
There were a lot of great articles and tutorials this week. Some of my personal favorites are Ryan Morr discussing why browser detection is a bad idea but also unavoidable, Adam Schwartz’s free CSS book called The Magic of CSS and the JavaScript OCR demo. Tutorials Ryan Morr discusses the history of browser detection, why […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of March 24, 2014
The big news this week both came from Microsoft with the open sourcing of WinJS and TypeScript reaching 1.0. WinJS is a set of open-source JavaScript toolkits from Microsoft containing sets of UI controls and components. WinJS TypeScript 1.0 is available as part of Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Web Express 2013 Spring Update, […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of March 24, 2014
This was a busy week. My post about being paralyzed by choice in front-end development seems to really have struck a nerve. One of the suggestions was to use round ups like this one to help filter out the noise. The goal of these posts is to, hopefully, make it easy to scan and find […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of March 17, 2014
Some interesting new projects this week including a web component for GIF playback and a new tool for project scaffolding with Gulp (essentially what Yeoman is to Grunt this is to Gulp). Obelisk.js is a JavaScript Engine for building isometric pixel objects like bricks, cubes or pyramids. obelisk.js Lithium Labs Visualization is a set of […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of March 17, 2014
Today’s list is both shorter than normal but, in many ways, more packed with useful, bookmark worthy resources. First, Rich Harris’ take on string templates has been hugely controversial and is a must read. Some of the resources you should consider bookmarking are The Zen Approach style guide, Addy Osmani’s list of ES6 tools, Jake […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of March 10, 2014
The major release this week was obviously ExpressJS 4.0. Crosswalk also seems potentially interesting as a hybrid development platform, though it currently is for Android only. Enjoy! ExpressJS 4.0 was recently released and removes all bundled middleware, overhauled routing and more. ExpressJS 4.0: New Features and Upgrading from 3.0 Crosswalk is a project by Intel […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of March 10, 2014
This was a busy week - both for new articles and tutorials and for me personally. Sorry this is a late but I have been traveling two weeks in a row back and forth to the bay area. Many f the highlights for me this week were in the “Etc.” section including a look at […]
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 […]