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Replicating Some Of Google Hangouts Chat Design -
I've been using Google Hangouts a bunch. It's really pretty great. One on one or group text chat, audio, or video.
Speaker Notes -
Rebecca Murphey with tips on speaking. While posted on “Ladies in Tech,” the advice is good for anyone.
Intro to Web Workers -
Brian Cooksey goes from "I don't really know what Web Workers are" to "OK I totally get Web Workers.
New Poll: Light on Dark or Dark on Light? -
New poll! Just for funzies. Do you prefer...
Light Code on Dark Background
Like this:
or.
A Couple of Best Practices for Tablet-Friendly Design -
Ben Terrill shares some things you can do to improve the experience for your visitors using tablet devices.
Making Infield Form Labels Suck Less -
Jackson Fox presents some of the options: slide them out of the input, slide them to the right, or move them to tooltips.
Poll Results: Mobile Web Design Responsibility -
Between 2008 and 2013, people's opinion on where the majority of responsibility in mobile design lies has shifted.
JSbooks -
A big collection of books on JavaScript that are published free on the web.
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The JavaScript Behind Touch-Friendly Sliders -
Kevin Foley explains how to build a swipeable gallery on touch devices.
The JavaScript Behind Touch-Friendly Sliders is a post from CSS-Tricks
IE 10 Specific Styles -
Conditional comments are gone in IE 10. That's good. IE 10 is a very good browser. Feature detection is a better way to go in nearly all cases.
Hitch -
It's kinda like a preprocessor (variables, prefixing...) but it can do much more because it's JavaScript that executes on your page.
Crop Top -
Sometimes you want an image to resize responsively but restrict its height — cropping it then as it widens.
Pizza Time Hovers -
Hover Maester Jenn Lukas sent me a link to PizzaTime.com. We agreed that 1) those are some pretty neat hovers! and 2) it's pretty cool that there is a quality website at all at a domain like PizzaTime.
Picnicc -
A new tool by Alex Duloz to help create custom builds of popular libraries and frameworks. Alex made builders for Twitter Bootstrap, underscore.
Request Quest -
Jake Archibald put together an interesting and informative quiz about when browsers actually make requests.
The “When Can I Use” Web Widget -
A script from Andi Smith that injects a chart of browser support with live data from Can I Use.
Build a motion activated security camera, with WebRTC, canvas and Device Orientation -
John Allsop uses an old iMac and the browser to snap a picture through a web cam and then email it when it detects movement.
Using requestAnimationFrame -
There used to be just one way to do a timed loop in JavaScript: setInterval(). If you needed to repeat something pretty fast (but not as-fast-as-absolutely-possible like a for loop), you'd use that.
A Couple of Use Cases for Calc() -
calc() is a native CSS way to do simple math right in CSS as a replacement for any length value (or pretty much any number value).
Grids with text-align: justify -
Patrick Kunka demos how fluid grids can be created with percentage widths and justified text.
