Posts Tagged ‘JavaScript’
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Auto-Save User’s Input In Your Forms With HTML5 and Sisyphus.js
- December 5th, 2011
- 27 Comments
Editor’s note: This article is the third in our new series that introduces new, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework that helps you build prototypes and ...
Read more...How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js
- November 21st, 2011
- 58 Comments
The Web is just starting to use animation well. For years, animated GIFs and Flash ruled. Text moved and flashed, but it was never seamless. Animations had boxes around them like YouTube videos. HTML5 canvas changes everything about Web animation. The canvas element makes it possible to integrate drawings and animations ...
Read more...Analyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 1
- November 14th, 2011
- 27 Comments
As Web developers, we have an affinity for developing with JavaScript. Whatever the language used in the back end, JavaScript and the browser are the primary language-platform combination available at the user’s end. It has many uses, ranging from silly to experience-enhancing. In this article, we’ll look at some methods of ...
Read more...Lessons From A Review Of JavaScript Code
- October 27th, 2011
- 32 Comments
Before we start, I’d like to pose a question: when was the last time you asked someone to review your code? Reviewing code is possibly the single best technique to improve the overall quality of your solutions, and if you’re not actively taking advantage of it, then you’re missing out ...
Read more...Optimizing Long Lists Of Yes/No Values With JavaScript
- October 19th, 2011
- 64 Comments
Very frequently in Web development (and programming in general), you need to store a long list of boolean values (yes/no, true/false, checked/unchecked… you get the idea) into something that accepts only strings. Maybe it’s because you want to store them in localStorage or in a cookie, or send them through ...
Read more...A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript
- October 4th, 2011
- 46 Comments
In school, I hated math. It was a dire, dry and boring thing with stuffy old books and very theoretical problems. Even worse, a lot of the tasks were repetitive, with a simple logical change in every iteration (dividing numbers by hand, differentials, etc.). It was exactly the reason why ...
Read more...Searchable Dynamic Content With AJAX Crawling
- September 27th, 2011
- 23 Comments
Google Search likes simple, easy-to-crawl websites. You like dynamic websites that show off your work and that really pop. But search engines can’t run your JavaScript. That cool AJAX routine that loads your content is hurting your SEO. Google’s robots parse HTML with ease; they can pull apart Word documents, ...
Read more...Useful Node.js Tools, Tutorials And Resources
- September 16th, 2011
- 25 Comments
Created by Ryan Dahl in 2009, Node.js is a relatively new technology which has gained a lot of popularity among Web developers recently. However, not everyone knows what it really is. Node.js is essentially a server-side JavaScript environment that uses an asynchronous event-driven model. What this means is simple: it’s ...
Read more...Help The Community: Report Browser Bugs
- September 7th, 2011
- 32 Comments
You’re developing a new website and have decided to use some CSS3 and HTML5, now that many of the new specifications are gaining widespread support. As you’re coding the theme and thinking of how much easier these new technologies are making your job, you decide to stop for a while ...
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