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  • Animate.css - CSS Animations For Dummies

    On the face of it, Animate.css is a simple CSS library that saves you from writing a few more lines of CSS need to animate elements on your website. Actually that is pretty much it, and that’s exactly what makes it such an awesome library. It takes you not more than fifteen minutes to understand how it works, and another few minutes to have the skill necessary in order to apply it. So read on and lets start mastering those Animate.css skills.

  • Handling JavaScript Errors by Type

    There are four major error types in programming: compile errors, logic errors, input/validation errors, and runtime errors. Error catching in code is usually limited to the latter two types. Today's article will cover three JavaScript runtime error subtypes.

  • Up close and personal with HTML5 IndexedDB

    Over the years, the web has increasingly transformed from being a repository of content to a marketplace of full-fledged functional apps.  The suite of technologies that fall under the “HTML5” banner have, as a fundamental goal, the capabilities to build within this new breed of software.  In this article, I’ll review a technology that solves an important piece of the application puzzle—managing storage and retrieval of user-specific data on the client side—called “IndexedDB.”

  • Guide to the SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript Library

    SyntaxHighlighter is used by all sorts of information technology-oriented sites to display source code or specially formatted text.  In this guide to the SyntaxHighlighter, we'll review some of the key version differences, as well as how to use, configure, and tweak the latest version.

     

  • 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.

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  • Up close and personal with HTML5 IndexedDB

    Over the years, the web has increasingly transformed from being a repository of content to a marketplace of full-fledged functional apps.  The suite of technologies that fall under the “HTML5” banner have, as a fundamental goal, the capabilities to build within this new breed of software.  In this article, I’ll review a technology that solves an important piece of the application puzzle—managing storage and retrieval of user-specific data on the client side—called “IndexedDB.”

  • 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.

  • Featured Goodies

  • Animate.css - CSS Animations For Dummies

    On the face of it, Animate.css is a simple CSS library that saves you from writing a few more lines of CSS need to animate elements on your website. Actually that is pretty much it, and that’s exactly what makes it such an awesome library. It takes you not more than fifteen minutes to understand how it works, and another few minutes to have the skill necessary in order to apply it. So read on and lets start mastering those Animate.css skills.

  • 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.

  • Getting Started with Joomla!

    If you've never heard of Joomla!, it's known as a CMS (content management system), which allows you to build complex web sites and run various applications. In this article we'll look at the many options for setting up Joomla! and how to configure the software.

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    All HTML Tags and Commands

  • 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.

  • Top 10 Web Development Apps for Android Devices

    As an avid Android device user with both an Android tablet and phone, of course I am always looking for apps that would be of use to web developers. After a bit of searching I was able to find apps for just about every aspect of web development, from the web server itself to an FTP client to move the files, to a source code viewer that let's you view the source code on any web page, analytics tools to allow you to analyze your website, to custom apps for the major CMSes WordPress, Drupal and Joomla!.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Primers

  • 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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