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February 07 2014
Responsive Images: Still Waiting for a Standard? Try Rwd.Images.Js Instead!
Responsive Images is a topic far from resolved. Will it be the picture element as proposed by the W3C or will it be the srcset attribute as proposed by WHATWG in the end? No matter what time will bring, responsive images are a problem that needs to be solved today and not sometime in the future. No wonder that JavaScript is the remedy of choice. There are quite a few scripts targeting responsive imaging, quality varies though. A brand-new script by Matt Stow from Australia shows the potential to become the best available client-side interim solution…
January 30 2014
Perfect Match: Adaptive Backgrounds for jQuery Colors Your Website Automagically
This plugin for jQuery is gas. Adaptive Backgrounds by Brian Gonzalez analyzes the colors of the images in your website, determines which ones are dominant and colors the background of the element containing the image accordingly. As Adaptive Backgrounds works with the nearest parent by default, you can have multiple different backgrounds on the same page. The effect is impressive.
January 27 2014
Slip.js: Small Script Touch-Optimizes Lists in Web Apps
Slip.js is not exactly new to me. I stumbled upon it a few weeks ago, yet didn’t get impressed at first sight. These days I had a real life usecase and faintly remembered Slip.js. Now, having worked through a real project with the help of that small script, I have to admit that Slip.js really is a clever tool for the creation of touch-sortable or – more general – editable lists in web apps.
January 23 2014
Styling SVG with CSS: Capabilities and Limitations
SVG is the new standard for vector images in the browser. Vector editors such as Adobe Illustrator allow to directly save to that format and modern browsers have no problems to properly display SVG. As SVG graphics consist of markup, they can be created and maintained using your favorite text editor, just as you do with your HTML. It is even possible to style SVG with CSS, though you’ll need to know about quite a few differences in doing so, compared to styling HTML.
January 22 2014
SVG and JavaScript: What Is Possible, What To Consider?
SVG has been around for quite some time now, waiting. Waiting for proper browser support. The wait is now over as all modern browsers support the format today. With Flash being on the decline, SVG has grown even more popular. Just like the proprietary Flash format, SVG is vector-based and can even contain animations. You need not even miss out on scripting, as SVG supports JavaScript right inside its own format. Think of an open ActionScript, only more commonly known.
January 15 2014
HTML 5 and SVG: Providing a PNG Fallback with PHP and ImageMagick
Using SVG in web design has many advantages. Being a vector format is the biggest and has it standing out from the crowd of other image formats. You could have guessed, though, that while modern browsers do already support SVG, the good ole Internet Exploder doesn’t, at least not below version 9. As older versions of Internet Explorer are still out there in the wild, you should always consider implementing a fallback solution. Using PHP and ImageMagick makes it a snap to provide a fallback to PNG..
January 08 2014
DevDocs: The Ultimate Work of Reference for Web Developers
Thibault Courouble is back. The philosopher and front-end developer from France created yet another useful web service for developers. His new project DevDocs has the potential to become the ultimate work of reference for anybody building web apps. DevDocs integrates a plethora of different documentations and equips them with a spanned search function. This is a very good idea…
January 06 2014
Summernote: Powerful WYSIWYG-Editor for Bootstrap 3
Today I stumbled upon a fresh JavaScript, which I think you will like, too. This little tool helps you integrate a feature-rich WYSIWYG editor into your next Bootstrap project. And it is entirely free. Summernote – say hi – is under ambitious development and bound to reach version 1 in the course of the next few weeks. You need not wait, though, as Summernote is perfectly ready for prime time just yet.
December 19 2013
HTML5: FileSystem API – Create Files and Store Them Locally Using JavaScript and Webkit
The FileSystem-API allows the creation of files and folders as well as their local storage using JavaScript. Files can be simple text files, but even more complex files such as images are possible. Modern Webkit browsers with HTML5 support are already able to handle the FileSystem-API. We show you how you can benefit from the new possibilities.
December 13 2013
From Scratch: Writing a 3D Soft Engine 3/6
In the previous tutorial, we learned how to draw lines and triangles. We really started to see the 3D side of our meshes, thanks to this wireframe rendering. But we’ve only displayed a cube… And even a simple cube already has 12 faces! Are we going to be forced to handle ourselves all the faces for more complex objects this way? Hopefully not.
December 06 2013
From Scratch: Writing a 3D Soft Engine 2/6
Now that we have built the core of our 3D engine along the lines of our previous tutorial #1, we will now work on enhancing the rendering. The next step is then to connect the dots to draw some lines in order to render what you probably know as a “wireframe” rendering. In today’s tutorial, you will learn how to draw lines, what a face is and how cool is the Bresenham algorithm to draw some triangles.
November 20 2013
From Scratch: Writing a 3D Soft Engine 1/6
I’d to like to share with you how I’ve learned to build what’s known as a “3D soft engine” through a series of tutorials. “Software engine” means that we will use only the CPU to build a 3D engine in an old school way (remember Doom on your 80386 ?).
November 15 2013
HTML5: Using IndexedDB with WebGL and Babylon.JS
In this article, I’d like to share everything I’ve been learning while developing the support for IndexedDB inside our 3D WebGL Babylon.JS game engine. Indeed, since 1.4.x, we’re now supporting storing & loading the JSON scenes containing our 3d meshes and their .PNG or .JPG textures as blobs from IndexedDB.
October 23 2013
Babylon.GameFX: This Framework Helps You Build HTML5 WebGL Games Faster than Fast
David Catuhe has recently released a simple & powerfull WebGL 3D engine named Babylon.JS. Which is a complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML 5 and WebGL. As this was great in itself, we decided to carry the concept even further and built a framework on top of that. This is our story…
October 22 2013
Bento: One-Stop Shop for Online-Courses on Web Development
It’s merely a few weeks ago, that we brought you a comprehensive overview of 22 of the online learning resources the planet has to offer. Just today we stumbled upon another effort for web designers, developers and programmers. An offering by the name of Bento curates the best learning resources in its field. The collection is community-based and as such more helpful than any Google search result could ever be ;-)
October 16 2013
Colors of Fall 2013: 21 Fresh and Free Design Resources
Hello designers, developers, web enthusiasts of the globe. We are back with another edition of our monthly collection of the freshest design resources the month of September had to offer. If you know our series already, you know you can expect the best HTML, CSS and PSD templates, as well as UI-kits for your next great web or native app. All of the resources showcased here are fresh, free and easy to download, suitable for experienced and amateur web designers, so be sure to download the ones you love and share them with everyone you know!
October 09 2013
HTML5 Gaming: Benchmarking Sprites to Target All Browsers
When I meet with game studios, I often have the same question put to me over and over: if I’m writing/porting my game in HTML5, will it run well on the various targeted devices? Will it be playable or will the gameplay suffer too much? To answer that question, I often use my own experience based on what I know and what worked well during my own tests. But I also had the feeling it wasn’t enough to just provide some good advice. In the meantime, there were some obvious facts. For instance, we all know that mobile devices can’t animate as many sprites as a desktop PC and preserve 60 FPS (frames per second).
September 24 2013
Plug-in Free #3: Building an Interactive Map
Hello developers! I am back for part 3 in our series on plug-in free web development. While the first article was all about theory, the second showed you how to implement bar graphs with HTML5. Today we’ll focus on something even more common. Interactive maps aren’t particularly new; they’ve been around for years. What’s different about the map, we will be developing during the course of the following article is, that it will be plug-in free. No Flash, no Silverlight, no Java, nothing.
September 20 2013
Plug-in Free #2: Building Interactive Bar Graphs with HTML5
Good morning, developers! I am back for part 2 in our series on plug-in free web development. While the first article was all about theory, we can now get rolling. In the following article, we’ll be developing plug-in free by creating bar graphs and similar graphics, using aaNASDAQ’s current web site as an example. But we won’t be creating merely a picture of a bar graph, but a real, interactive bar graph. We will go from Flash to HTML5.
August 29 2013
Building an Interactive Navigation Bar with HTML/CSS
A straightforward navigation structure can increase the usability of your site, and make information easy to find. By using basic HTML and CSS, you can build a horizontal nav bar that provides interaction when a user hovers over a navigation link.
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