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  • Case Study: Huffington Post - Reinventing the "Big News" Experience with IE9 Pinned Sites

    The Huffington Post takes broad leaps in creating the perfect site to take advantage of all that IE9, HTML5 and CSS3 has to offer. From Site Pinning to Favicons and everything in between. This article is a case study of how Big News reinvents the news site.

  • Responsive Web Design

    It all started with "Responsive Web Design", an article by Ethan Marcotte on A List Apart. Essentially, the article proposed addressing the ever-changing landscape of devices, browsers, screen sizes and orientations by creating flexible, fluid and adaptive Web sites. Instead of responding to today’s needs for a desktop, Web version adapted to the most common screen resolution, along with a particular mobile version (often specific to a single mobile device), the idea is to approach the issue the other way around: use flexible and fluid layouts that adapt to almost any screen.

  • Browser and Feature Detection: Make Your Website Look Great Everywhere

    When you’re building a web site, you want it to look great in any browser…and ideally, it should look great for a long time, even in future versions of the browsers. I’ve pulled together some hints, tips and best practices that will help your sites look their best.

  • Display Images in Black & White Using the HTML5 Canvas

    The HTML5 canvas is a bitmap element for rendering graphics, drawings, and images on the fly using JavaScript. The canvas 2D API contains an arsenal of functions that give you the ability to draw pretty much anything you like on the canvas and there is a lot to be said about black & white photography. It can capture images in a way that color simply can't. If you want to display images in black and white, but don't want to mess with your original color photos, then this is the ideal way to go about it. Read on!

  • Calling Parent Methods in JavaScript

    One of the big differences between Classical (Object-Oriented) and Prototypal inheritance is that the former has an elegant mechanism for referring to the parent using the super keyword. It's often used in constructors to initialize the parent class with the supplied input parameters. Another common usage is to extend parent functionality in the child class. In today's article we'll establish how to accomplish the same thing in JavaScript.

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  • Case Study: Huffington Post - Reinventing the "Big News" Experience with IE9 Pinned Sites

    The Huffington Post takes broad leaps in creating the perfect site to take advantage of all that IE9, HTML5 and CSS3 has to offer. From Site Pinning to Favicons and everything in between. This article is a case study of how Big News reinvents the news site.

  • How to write a BrikBloc game with HTML5 SVG and Canvas

    The goal of this tutorial is discovering graphics development using SVG and Canvas (which are two majors technologies of HTML5). To do so, we will write together a brick breaker game (à la Arkanoïd or Blockout). It will be composed of an animated background (using Canvas) and will use SVG for bricks, pad and ball.

  • Top 5 Best Practices for Building HTML5 Games...In Action!

    What will you learn in this article? I’ll cover HTML5 game development frameworks, how you can reach more people by supporting smartphones and slate devices, how you should go about managing your in-game state, how to deal with performance issues, and how to make the most of the platform that is your browser.

  • Behind the Scenes of Disney TRON: How to Build a Digital Book Site with HTML5

    Thanks to the amazing teamwork of Disney and Vectorform, it took just about 1 month to build the new Disney TRON: Legacy Digital Book Site, an immersive HTML5 experience built on top of Internet Explorer 9 Hardware Accelerated HTML5. This article will share some of the behind the scenes tricks involved to keep the project moving and completed on-time.

  • Beyond HTML

  • Read Text Files Using the JavaScript FileReader

    Things are definitely looking up for the W3C's File API, a new JavaScript API that provides limited access to the local file system in Web applications, In this article we'll learn how to use the FileReader to retrieve file properties and the contents of text files.

  • How to Build a Native Mobile Application in Dreamweaver CS5.5

    In earlier articles we covered HTML5 Semantics and multiscreen authoring in Dreamweaver. In this article we're going to look at the process of building a native phone application in Dreamweaver CS5.5.

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  • Learn CSS3 From A - Z: 3D Transformations

    3D transforms allow us web developers to render objects on the page that appear to be 3 dimensional. When the human eye sees a scene, objects in the distance appear smaller than those close by - this is known as perspective. In order to represent 3D imagery in 2D, the trick used is to make parallel lines that go away from the user merge towards a point, known as the vanishing point. This article takes a closer look at how we do that using CSS3 and HTML5 programming.

  • Object Reflection in JavaScript

    Using reflection, it's possible for a class to query another class for the names of all its members and display them. JavaScript, Java's little cousin, does provide some - albeit limited - amount of Reflective functionality. In today's article, we're going to see exactly what it can do.

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  • Providing an HTML5 Date Input control with Fallback

    The HTML5 Date Input control has been long awaited and makes inputting dates simple for both the user and the web developer. In this tutorial, we'll be building a Accrued Interest calculator that accepts a start and end date to create the period.

  • An Overview of the W3C HTML5 Document Outliner Algorithm

    HTML4's use of div and header tags to describe a document's structure has many limitations that can be a problem for web developers. This article tackles that issue, and specifically focuses on the Header and Section elements, describing how to effectively use them to define the desired outline for your HTML documents.

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