Web Developers Articles
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The Web Developer Toolbox: Raphaël
This is the first of a series of articles dedicated to the useful libraries that all web developers should have in their toolbox. My intent is to show you what those libraries can do and help you to use them at their best. This first article is dedicated to the Raphaël library. Introduction Raphaël is […]
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Ask your HTML5 Browser Tools Questions for SXSW Panel.
At this years “South by Southwest” (SXSW) Interactive event I’m joining Paul Irish from Google, Mike Taylor from Opera, Brandon Satron from Telerik and Javascript Developer and author Garann Means in a panel on “The State of Browser Developer Tools” The group has a Google Moderator page where you can ask your questions in advance. […]
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Q & A With Michal Biniek: HTML5 Hacker and Frequent Dev Derby Winner
Editor’s Note: Michal Biniek is a frontend developer on the Innogames Lagoonia team, and an enthusiast of JavaScript and new web technologies like HTML5/CSS3, WebSockets, and WebRTC. Back in November, michal.b took 2nd place in the
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Mozilla's Boot to Gecko – The Web is the Platform
Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko (B2G) is about building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web. It aims at making web technologies the number one choice for applications on desktop and mobile, and we believe it can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development. And we have made some exciting progress that we want […]
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Saving images and files in localStorage
As you might know, localStorage is quite powerful when it comes to quickly storing information in the user’s web browser, and it has also been around in all web browsers a long time. But how do we store files in it? Please also make sure to read Storing images and files in IndexedDB.
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Old tricks for new browsers – a talk at jQuery UK 2012
Last Friday around 300 developers went to Oxford, England to attend jQuery UK and learn about all that is hot and new about their favourite JavaScript library. Imagine their surprise when I went on stage to tell them that a lot of what jQuery is used for these days doesn’t need it. If you want […]
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Using the Fullscreen API in web browsers
One thing which has been very important when it comes to creating special end user experiences have been the ability to show something fullscreen, effectively hiding all the other content etc.
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Hidden Gems of HTML5: classList
If you are a web developer, you surely must know how handy it is to dynamically change the class attribute on an element. The benefits this technique are quite a few: You leave any changes in the look and feel to the CSS You avoid having to loop lots of elements as you can allow […]
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Writing forward-compatible websites
As web developers we want to ensure what we build is accessible by as many people as possible, with as many web browsers, operating systems and devices as we can support. It is also hard to know what the future holds, and for that we have put together Writing forward-compatible websites
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Firefox – tons of tools for web developers!
One of the goals of Firefox have always been to make the lives of web developers as easy and productive as possible, by providing tools and a very extensible web browser to enable people to create amazing things. The idea here is to list a lot of the tools and options available to you as […]
