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Cross-Browser SVG Text-Paths Without JavaScript — Even In Older IE. 21 May 2013 | 07:52 am
Designers have been using textpaths for years in print, but doing this on the web is a little tricky. SVG, which supports textpaths in modern browsers, is not supported by IE
How To Create SVG Paths Easily Using The GIMP 26 Apr 2013 | 10:18 am
When writing my blog post about Clicking Through Clipped Images Using CSS Pointer Events, SVG Paths and VML, I needed to create SVG paths. The problem is that they look so complicated and are not intu...
Clicking Through Clipped Images Using CSS Pointer Events, SVG Paths and VML 26 Apr 2013 | 10:07 am
In HTML documents, setting a DOM object's pointer-event property to none will result in any mouse event to pass through that node to the nodes positioned underneath. This, along with SVG Paths and som...
Animating Circular Paths Using CSS3 Animations. 4 Mar 2013 | 08:41 am
For the longest time I assumed that one couldn’t use CSS Transitions or animations to move DOM objects in anything but a straight path. Sure, a developer could use multiple keyframes to create a list ...
Cross-Browser Animated Image Masking (Even in IE) Using polyClip.js 14 Jan 2013 | 10:56 am
I first created polyClip.js so I could combine the lossy compression algorithm of JPEGs with the ability to have a transparent area that PNGs allow. The result works well in all browsers, but can poly...
CSS3 Pseudo-Classes and HTML5 Forms: Their Limitations and a Possible Solution 6 Nov 2012 | 06:07 am
I have been playing around with HTML5 Forms for a while now, and one of my favorite parts of the HTML5 Forms spec is the use of CSS3 pseudo-classes to show the validation state of the form fields to t...
Cross Browser GPU Acceleration and requestAnimationFrame in Depth 24 Sep 2012 | 07:10 am
Animations made with requestAnimationFrame appear less jumpy and stuttery than those using setTimeout or jQuery.animate by ensuring that animation frames are generated at the most optimal times accord...
A Developer I Admire — Walter Zorn 27 Aug 2012 | 05:34 am
In his recent blog post Developers We Admire, Paul Irish called out to the web development community to blog about the developers they found important and inspirational. My contribution to that list i...
Cross Browser Styling of HTML5 Forms — Even In Older Browsers. 18 May 2012 | 02:45 pm
Note: For an introduction to HTML5 Forms, you may want to also read my original post, Creating Cross Browser HTML5 Forms Now, Using modernizr, webforms2 and html5Forms which has been updated to reflec...
Help Free Saeed Malekpour: Sentenced To Death For Writing Code. 23 Jan 2012 | 07:02 pm
Saeed Malekpour’s wife, Fatima Eftekhari, discussing the current situation. If you are a web developer, or any kind of code wrangler, please take a minute out of your day to read what follows. I don’...
