By Joseph Wegner In my book, SVG is classified as a mythical unicorn super technology. SVG shares this category with other technologies like RegExp, vim, and OpenGL. The common traits between each of these technologies is that they are incredibly useful when used correctly, but incredibly difficult to use correctly. All three pack some serious […]
Enhancing the HTML abbr Element on Mobile
By Aurelio De Rosa Today’s world move fast - really fast. When writing, a lot of people use abbreviations and acronyms to save time. We can find these used all over the web. They are so frequently used that an HTML tag, <abbr>, was created to identify them and help improve the semantic markup of […]
5 Most Exciting Features of Foundation 5
By Zing Design We’ve eagerly awaited the release of the latest version of Foundation, Zurb’s hugely popular front-end framework. It has finally arrived and I’m sure a lot of designers and front-end developers are eager to put it to the test. We were lucky enough to have a sneak preview of the framework before it […]
Moving to Static and Keeping Your Toys
By Raymond Camden Static web sites, and the tools to create them, are all the rage these days. And if there’s one thing that I’ve learned after a decade in the web business is that anything that is popular must be a good and practical thing that is worth your time. Ok, kidding aside, there […]
Using Bootstrap 3 as a Web Development Workflow Tool
By Zing Design With the release of Bootstrap 3 in mid-August, I was eager to take it out for a test drive. My expectations were pretty high for the latest iteration of the framework. The first thing that struck me when I was reading through the documentation were the many similarities to Foundation 4. At first […]
Creating an Animated Hero Image with Canvas
By Dave DeHaan When we were looking at laying out spark.lamplighter.io, we decided we wanted to add the feel of our graphs to the top of the page. The suggestion came up that it would be cool if our graph actually “cut off” our hero image, so that any part of our hero image under the […]
Building a Blog with Jekyll
By Donovan Hutchinson There are many services that provide you with a blog. However, they get to store and make use of your content. For those of us that prefer to run our own sites and keep the content under our own control, setting up our own is a better option. In this article I’ll […]
Creating a Realistic Rain Effect with Canvas and JavaScript
By Marek Brodziak I recently released a fun project called rainyday.js. I consider it a rather humble piece of code and, in fact, it is more or less my first contact with JavaScript on a level that requires a little more than displaying alert popups. Hopefully, some of you will find it useful and interesting. […]
Getting a Head Start with Front End Generators
By Jonathan Fielding In this post we will talk about the different generators we can use to get started on our projects. There are many different generators/scaffolders available, and we will cover a few of the most popular and look at how we can use them in our projects. Initializr (www.initializr.com) Initializr was one of the […]
Ractive.js Expressions and the New Wave of Reactive Programming
By Rich Harris Dedicated followers of JavaScript fashion will by now have noticed this season’s hot new trend. If you haven’t spotted it yet, here are a few projects sporting this style on the GitHub catwalk - React, Reactive.js, component/reactive and reactive.coffee. That’s right: reactive programming is the new black. At a high level, the […]