Let’s face it, the parts of CSS3 that first caught our attention were the animations and transitions. They’re something we never had before without the inclusion of JavaScript. And just because it’s CSS, doesn't mean there aren’t libraries out there to help you. One of them being Animate.css. What is Animate.css? ... Animate.css is a library that comes with dozens of cross-browser fun animations built-in that you can use in your project very easily. It’s the same idea as some of the JavaScript...
At the WWDC 2014 Apple introduced a brand new programming language called Swift,. It's a language that has been created by Apple from the ground up to be both very efficient and very beautiful. Swift uses the same API's as C but in my opinion is easier to learn and get a grasp if you come from a web development background like me. If you are just as exited about this language as I am, then this is the article for you. Variables and constants ... Declaring variables in Swift, if you come from a Javascript background,...
You have to love the developer network. Whilst HTML5 remains a relatively new standard, there are plenty of open source and paid for resources available to help you work with HTML5 using JavaScript. JavaScript is necessary for many HTML5 elements such as <canvas>, <audio> and WebGL. However, as I said, there are tools, libraries and framework resources to help you, so let’s get started looking at some of them. 1) HTML5 Boilerplate ... It’s likely that if you’re already working...
All the websites we build should be responsive; not just to browser speed, but to network condition. In this article I'll introduce the Network Information API, that helps us detect a device’s current bandwidth and allows us to modify our site if the speed is slower than we need. Browser support ... We usually can’t expect support for experimental APIs and in this case, the only two browsers that support it are Firefox and Chrome. In both cases, you need browser prefixes. How to use the Network Information...
currentColor is a CSS variable-like feature that's been around for quite awhile now and has reasonably good browser support (it's supported by all modern browsers and their mobile counterparts, and even IE9+, though bugs have been reported in mobile Safari). While most variables are still being used with preprocessors until support becomes more widely established, currentColor can be used as-is. currentColor is super useful under some specific circumstances, and well worth learning (especially...
It's not trivial to set up PayPal IPN (Instant Payment Notification). It requires a free Business (Premium) PayPal account, a web hosting account with PHP support, configured to allow creating HTTP socket connections using "fsockopen" function, a MySQL database set up on your web server, a mailing mechanism (for sending the product to the buyer) and a free Gmail account. It may seem like a lot, but everything except the web hosting server (which you probably already have) is free, and once it is fully...
Today we have mobile devices that come equipped with everything from cameras to geolocation, and we have little computers in our hands that can do pretty much anything we do with our desktop. One of the key APIs that functions with mobile devices is the Device Orientation API. The Device Orientation API helps us as developers detect the orientation of the user's screen and make the necessary changes to our layout. For example, on YouTube, if you are watching a video and you tilt your phone, the video goes...
Mac OSX is able to display message notifications — still referred to as Growl messages, despite the fact that the big cat moniker is no longer applied to versions. Many applications send Growl messages to the OS to let the user know that an action has just occurred. Wouldn’t it be nice to use messages like this on our websites? I think so. In this tutorial we’ll construct a notification like this with HTML, CSS3 and a little jQuery. Growl message functionality ... When more than one message is displayed,...