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![9 Mind-Blowing Canvas Demos]()
9 Mind-Blowing Canvas Demos
The
<canvas>element has been a revelation for the visual experts among our ranks. Canvas provides the means for incredible and efficient animations with the added bonus of no Flash; these developers can flash their awesome JavaScript skills instead. Here are nine unbelievable canvas demos that...![Detect DOM Node Insertions with JavaScript and CSS Animations]()
Detect DOM Node Insertions with JavaScript and CSS Animations
I work with an awesome cast of developers at Mozilla, and one of them in Daniel Buchner. Daniel's shared with me an awesome strategy for detecting when nodes have been injected into a parent node without using the deprecated DOM Events API.
Incredible Demos
![Elegant Overflow with CSS Ellipsis]()
Elegant Overflow with CSS Ellipsis
Overflow with text is always a big issue, especially in a programmatic environment. There's always only so much space but variable content to add into that space. I was recently working on a table for displaying user information and noticed that longer strings were...
![Create a Spinning, Zooming Effect with CSS3]()
Create a Spinning, Zooming Effect with CSS3
In case you weren't aware, CSS animations are awesome. They're smooth, less taxing than JavaScript, and are the future of node animation within browsers. Dojo's mobile solution,
dojox.mobile, uses CSS animations instead of JavaScript to lighten the application's JavaScript footprint. One of my favorite effects...



