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• By Kate DagliSeptember 30, 2014

  Top Prototyping and App Creation Tools and Resources

  When you're crafting websites, web apps, and mobile apps at a professional level, it makes sense to recruit the best tools on the market, those that are certain to help you achieve your purpose and do a great job, time and time again. Below is a...

• By David WalshSeptember 29, 2014

  The Truth About CSS

  Whether you call yourself a "full stack engineer" or not, most of us fashion ourselves able to dabble on each side of a website infrastructure.  Of course the same people who fancy themselves as capable would probably also tell you they're much stronger on client or server sides.

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• By Nick JanssenSeptember 25, 2014

  Declarative Build Configurations

  Some time ago I posted an article how you can build apps faster using a build tool called Angus. In the meantime the tool has gotten a whole lot better, embracing the concept of declarative build configurations. In this article I would like to show...

• By David WalshSeptember 24, 2014

  iOS Mobile Safari Hover Menu Fix

  One component I'm quite proud of creating is the Mozilla Developer Network's dropdown menu component.  It's elegant, flexible, accessible via keyboard, and relatively compact (though it does require jQuery).  One problem I did notice, however, was that tapping once opened the menu (good) but you'd have...

• By David WalshSeptember 23, 2014

  Node.contains: Check if a Node is a Child of Another Node

  There are loads of basic, native JavaScript methods that many developers don't know about.  Many people don't know about the Element.classList API, for example, so className management becomes another case for needing a JavaScript toolkit for even the most basic tasks.  Another case is checking for node...

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• By Kyle SimpsonSeptember 22, 2014

  Unwrapping JSON-P

  This is a quickie simple post on JavaScript techniques. We're going to look at how to unwrap the "P" function-call padding from a JSON-P string to get the JSON from it. Note: Obviously, the recent push toward ubiquity of CORS is making JSON-P less important...

• By Geoffrey CraigSeptember 18, 2014

  How to Make Email a Powerful Part of Your Web Application

  Giving your customers a way to access your application from their email account is a major way to boost their activity and engagement on your website. One of my favorite popular productivity tools, iDoneThis, gives me a simple way to record and share the...

• By Garris ShiponSeptember 17, 2014

  Responsive and Infinitely Scalable JS Animations

  Back in late 2012 it was not easy to find open source projects using requestAnimationFrame() - this is the hook that allows Javascript code to synchronize with a web browser's native paint loop. Animations using this method can run at 60 fps and deliver fantastic...

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• By David WalshSeptember 16, 2014

  CSS Custom Cursors

  Remember the Web 1.0 days where you had to customize your site in every way possible?  You abused the scrollbars in Internet Explorer, of course, but the most popular external service I can remember was CometCursor.  CometCursor let you create and use loads of custom cursors for...

• By Kyle SimpsonSeptember 14, 2014

  Using String Replace in JavaScript

  This is a quickie simple post on JavaScript techniques. We're going to cover how to use the regular expression driven replace(..) with JavaScript string values. All string values have a replace(..) method available to them. This method allows you to pass a regular expression (or a string...