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  • The Star Wars Intro in Pure CSS3 Thanks to 3D Transform & Animations

    Learn how to build and pure CSS3 Star Wars like text scroller and 100% JavaScript free including all the bells and whistles, enough to make George Lucas proud.

  • Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5

    When you consider making multiplayer games, there are many methods available for creating a game that friends can play online. The article will present a playable demo with parameters to play with, showcasing the concepts discussed.

  • Scripting Made Easier with the Eclipse JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT)

    The JavaScript Development Tools (JSDT) plug-in supports the development of JavaScript-powered applications as well as JavaScript within traditional web applications. In today's article, Rob Gravelle demonstrates how use the JSDT plugin to enhance the development of a static web project.

  • The !DOCTYPE Tag and Its Effect on Page Rendering

    In today's article, Rob Gravelle explains how the DOCTYPE tag affects HTML page rendering.

  • Review: Rapid SEO Tool

    In this article we look at the Rapid SEO Tool, which is designed to help you improve your search engine rankings. Properly applied, you'll see the rankings of your page and site over-all climb over time. And assuming you eventually arrive on page one for one or more pages, this could have a significant impact on your business.

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  • The Star Wars Intro in Pure CSS3 Thanks to 3D Transform & Animations

    Learn how to build and pure CSS3 Star Wars like text scroller and 100% JavaScript free including all the bells and whistles, enough to make George Lucas proud.

  • Quickstart: Adding WinJS controls and styles to a Windows Store app using JavaScript and HTML

    The Windows Library for JavaScript provides a set of new controls designed for Windows Store apps using JavaScript. It also includes two style sheets (one with a dark color scheme and one with a light) that give your app the look and feel of Windows 8. This Quickstart article will review the details and best practices behind leveraging these controls and styles.

  • CSS Architectures, Part 1: Principles of Code Cleanup and the New Best Practices

    All too often, the CSS for major (and minor) websites is a textbook case of code bloat and redundancy. We can all institute several basic, solid CSS writing practices to vastly improve the maintainability of any organization’s stylesheets making our approach two-fold. First, writing clean and efficient CSS. Second, CSS architectures. This article will explore both of these topics as well as several tips and tricks.

  • Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse with HTML5 and SVG Part 1: SVG Element, Text, Images and Basic Shapes

    With widespread adoption of HTML5 standards, browsers are taking SVG in new directions, such as emphasizing the <svg> tag for inline SVG, using CSS for styling, and opening up the DOM so that SVG images can be created or manipulated on the client side with JavaScript. Part-1 of this two part article will discuss these methods in detail.

  • JavaScript Physics Engines Comparison

    In this article we will take a look at three popular Javascript physics libraries and one that is currently in development: box2dweb, Ammo.js, JigLibJS, and Cannon.js. For each one, a quick introduction will be given and then the library will be rated based on ease of use, performance, and feature set.

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  • The !DOCTYPE Tag and Its Effect on Page Rendering

    In today's article, Rob Gravelle explains how the DOCTYPE tag affects HTML page rendering.

  • 7 Things to Avoid When Creating HTML5 Layouts

    In this article we're going to look at seven common HTML5 mistakes that people make when creating layouts. Since HTML5 is a new standard, many of these issues will cover obsolete syntax, which is discussed at length, here.

  • Ten Tips To Increase The Popularity of Your Blog

    Blogging is an activity that many undertake, some for the fun of it and others to build a presence online. In this article we cover ten tips to get your blog noticed and ranking highly in the search engines.

  • Testing Ajax Event Handlers using Jasmine Spies

    JavaScript has several methods that execute asynchronously, such as setTimeout(), Ajax calls, as well as event-driven processes. These examples all have to wait until the current execution thread comes to an end and surrenders to the next event, making asynchronous processes hard to test. Fortunately, the Jasmine JS testing library comes equipped with a couple of tools for handling callbacks.

  • Building Atari with CreateJS

  • Beyond HTML

  • Object.create(): the New Way to Create Objects in JavaScript

    Just when you thought that you've seen every possible way there was to create JavaScript objects, Rob Gravelle brings you yet another: the new Object create() method.  There are some pretty good reasons to use it. In today's article, Rob shows how to use it.

  • Variable Naming Conventions in JavaScript

    Have you ever noticed that every programming language seems to have its own set of naming conventions? While some languages have a lot in common, others just seem to exist in a world of their own. I'd like to share with you some naming conventions for JavaScript. Along the way, I'm going to interject some info on where various standards originate from and why they are important.

  • HTML and Graphics Tutorials

  • 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.

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