In this episode: David and Todd discuss the best holiday every: National Cheeseburger Day. After the salivation ended, David and Todd welcome Kyle Simpson, aka getify, to the show. Kyle's a well known JavaScript super hero so we jumped on a variety of topics: the JavaScript spec, the good old days of JavaScript frameworks, conferences, teaching JavaScript, blockchain, and a handful of Kyle's new projects. Enjoy!
Feature detection via JavaScript is a client side best practice and for all the right reasons, but unfortunately that same functionality hasn't been available within CSS. What we end up doing is repeating the same properties multiple times with each browser prefix. Yuck. Another thing we...
One major problem with creating UI components with the MooTools JavaScript framework is that there isn't a great way of allowing customization of template and ease of node creation. As of today, there are two ways of creating:
new Element Madness
The first way to create UI-driven...
Displaying a preview image before loading a video is common practice with web media these days; oftentimes that image preview is the video's first frame or an important frame from the video. If you've visited an adult site recently (ahem), you will have noticed that not only do you get a preview image...
Last December I wrote a blog post titled Create Spinning Rays with CSS3 Animations & JavaScript where I explained how easy it was to create a spinning rays animation with a bit of CSS and JavaScript. The post became quite popular so I...