Category: JavaScript
Add Gesture Support to Your Web Application via Hammer.js
Posted on Apr 03, 2012
As anyone who has viewed their web application on a mobile device, or developed one specifically for mobile, knows, by default your site does not understand gestures. Sure, tapping on a link acts the same as clicking with a mouse, but even that limited default gesture support doesn’t always behave the way we’d hoped. Thankfully, if you would like to add more advanced gesture support to your web application, there are JavaScript libraries out there to support this. In this post, we’ll take a look at one of them, Hammer.js, that was released recently and allows you to easily add support for tap, double-tap, hold, drag and transform gestures.
Continue Reading →Best of JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 - Week of March 26, 2012
Posted on Apr 02, 2012
It's a good week: Spring is in the air; Game of Thrones is back on television; and, most importantly, there are tons of new libraries and tutorials about JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS to enjoy. A hot topic this week, both from Adobe and from numerous external sources, was the CSS Regions and exclusions proposals from Adobe. Backbone.js also seems to dominate discussions and tutorials about JavaScript frameworks at the moment. There's plenty more of course, including a number of new micro-libraries. Enjoy!
Continue Reading →Best of JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3 - Week of March 19, 2012
Posted on Mar 26, 2012
This was a really impressive week of posts. There were a number of posts on experimental standards in HTML5 and CSS3 such as getUserMedia, shadow DOM, accelerometer and gyroscope API's, JavaScript source maps and CSS regions. Many of these demos require Chrome Canary or other browser nightly builds but do help show some of the powerful possibilities that are coming in the near future. There were also a good number of demos showing things like a JavaScript voice synthesizer, clouds rendered using CSS 3D transforms and more. Enjoy!
Continue Reading →JavaScript Frameworks List - Now a Community Project
Posted on Mar 23, 2012
As I mentioned in my prior post with the list I have been compiling, organizing all the JavaScript frameworks I have come across, my goal was to make this a community project. The first step was to convert the list to JSON, which I did do. Next I created a project on GitHub for it. Right now this currently only houses the latest version of the JSON file but I plan to broaden the scope as I find time. Lastly, I created a page on my site that uses the JSON data to populate the same list. I've managed to make a few fixes/updates to the data for the list along the way though I still have quite a few sitting in my inbox which I plan to get to shortly. Right now, it is mostly the same list you can find on the blog post, but from here on out, I will only update this one and no longer update the post.
I hope, with your help, to make this a really useful tool for the community going forward. My goal, once I get the waiting updates in, is to begin to add resources for each framework including blog posts, tutorials and such, to the JSON data that I can use to turn this list not only into a way to find frameworks, but also to get to resources to learn about them as well. As always, I am open to feedback. Thanks.
Continue Reading →Best of JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3 - Week of March 12, 2012
Posted on Mar 19, 2012
This week includes a lot of solid tutorials covering general HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript features, including a number that are great for a beginner audience. This includes looks at HTML5's new form validation features, the new mouse pointer lock API, a dicussion of JavaScript debugging in the console, a detailed overview of em units in CSS and more. There were also a number of library/framework tutorials on Backbone, Rhino, Minion, DataJS, Ember and others. Enjoy.
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