A well designed site by the folks who brought us HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr and CSS3 Please shows how to implement specific HTML5 features: with confidence, with a fallback or with polyfills. The site also breaks it all down with a searchable interface and the ability to filter by html, css, js or browser-native API. Check [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]