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Pure CSS Slide Up and Slide Down 26 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
If I can avoid using JavaScript for element animations, I’m incredibly happy and driven to do so. They’re more efficient, don’t require a JavaScript framework to manage steps, and they’re more elegan...
Generate a CSS Grid with Stylus 21 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
I’ve jumped into Stylus over the past few moths and I love it. I wouldn’t say it’s better or worse than SASS, it’s just something a bit different. One task I’ve recently completed is building the st...
Chris Coyier’s Favorite CodePen Demos 14 Aug 2013 | 07:55 am
Chris Coyer’s incredible CodePen is much more than your typical code’n'share site. CodePen features the end result more than the code, provides loads of collaboration tools, and seems to be pushing ne...
Font Awesome Text-Decoration and Link Underline 13 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
If I were to describe Font Awesome in a word, I think it would be…awesome. The icon font library is massively helpful in using quality vector glyphs instead of separate images. I tend to use a lot ...
Creating the Treehouse Frog Animation 9 Aug 2013 | 05:47 am
The following post has been written by Brazilian developer Jones Dias. His English is much better than my Portuguese but since it isn’t his native language, I’ve sprinkled in some extra detail to the ...
Python html5lib Skipped Elements 8 Aug 2013 | 06:19 pm
I’ve been working on some interesting python stuff at Mozilla and one task recently called for called for rending a page and then finding elements with a URL attribute value (like img[src] or a[href])...
:valid, :invalid, and :required CSS Pseudo Classes 7 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
Let’s be honest, form validation with JavaScript can be a real bitch. On a real basic level, however, it’s not that bad. HTML5 has jumped in to some extent, providing a few attributes to allow us to...
Resize an Image Using Canvas, Drag and Drop and the File API 6 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
It’s a massive honor to have Tom “Trenkavision” Trenka write a guest post for this blog. Tom was one of the original contributors of the Dojo Toolkit and my mentor at SitePen. I’ve seen his genius fir...
CSS Triangles 5 Aug 2013 | 04:58 pm
This post has been updated to include CSS triangles without markup via :before and :after pseudo-elements. I was recently redesigning my website and wanted to create tooltips. Making that was easy b...
Mighty Deals: Responsive Bootstrap Templates 1 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
I recently saw a tweet saying that 1% of the web is now powered by the Bootstrap framework. That’s an incredible number for a project that doesn’t seem that old. When you look at what Bootstrap enco...