6/29/2011
There is a zillion one-page apps focused on making some little aspect of front end development easier. I think they are great. They exemplify the wonderful culture of sharing and ingenuity that our industry is known for. Each of us has slightly different jobs and slightly different skill sets. That means a little helper app that is useful to you might not be to me and vice versa. So of the probably-hundreds of these one-page apps that I’ve seen over…
Read on! →
6/28/2011
One of the shortfalls of using CSS media queries as the only ingredient of a mobile solution is that the same content gets served to both desktop browsers and mobile devices (which theoretically are slower and have less network speed).
Serving the same HTML to both… not as big of a deal. Serving up images that are many times bigger than they need to be on mobile, that’s more of a problem. A number of smart people have tried to…
Read on! →
6/23/2011
In this tutorial we’ll learn the basics of the canvas element. How to draw to it, create loops which redraw it allowing animation, and in the end, wind up with a basic playable “Snake” game.
Read on! →
6/17/2011
The only statistic you get in most web analytics software is screen resolution. But there is a pretty good chance you just read this sentence in a browser that isn’t open to the full size of your monitor. If you are looking at size analytics for you website, browser size is far more relevant. In this article we figure out how to get that data, and then look at some of the results gathered from css-tricks.com.
Read on! →
6/16/2011
I get a little giddy when I come across perfect uses for :nth-child or :nth-of-type (read about the difference). The better you understand them, the more css nerdgasms you get to have!
Read on! →
