Ignition, inspired by HTML5 Boilerplate and Twitter’s Bootstrap is one attempt to apply the sensibility of those projects (implementing baseline templates for HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript) towards Responsive Design. Having a template to base your development and design on, which will allow for a fluid screen layout on desktop/laptop, tablet and mobile, is a welcome [...]
Google Codesearch will be shutdown effective January 15, 2012 but there are a number of alternatives for searching the source of publicly available codebases. Alternatives mentioned (but not explicitly endorsed) by the Codesearch team include http://koders.com, http://opensearch.krugle.org, http://grepcode.com and http://www.antepedia.com. Of these four, Krugle seems to be the most helpful for Front End development code [...]
Mozilla Developer Central has long been a go to source for for technical documentation of web-standards based development. Now this excellent resource for info on HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the DOM has been organized with a nice clean UI. dochub.io is a welcome take on this exhaustive information, made more suitable for browsing and quick [...]
Google has announced that they will be discontinuing their Knol project. Knol was a web publishing platform that was used by members of academia to make their research available in what was considered a more credible context than traditional blogs. While Knol will be ending, researchers still have a migration option. The prescribed migration path [...]
normalize.css is a project available on github that seeks to do for CSS what libraries like jQuery did for JavaScript a few cycles ago. That is, rather than wipe the slate clean like CSS solutions such as Eric Meyer’s Reset, the library, well, “normalizes” rendering of elements across browsers. It does so for IE6+, FF3+, [...]
An insider from the W3C Working Group responsible for maintaining and extending the CSS spec has taken to offering his viewpoint on the process, and detailing how the group operates “in reality”. He discusses the roles people play within the group, how communication is managed, how decisions are finally made, how modules of the spec [...]
A camera positioned at an unknown location in New York City documents the change in color of the skyline every five minutes. The average color is computed, and is represented on a grid of hex colors on a website. Presumably this installation art of sorts, accessed through the humble web browser, has been running since [...]