A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
X-Tag is a powerful sugar library primarily focused on wrapping and enhancing one of the draft-state Web Component specs: Custom Elements With Custom Elements, you could for example just write up <x-map data-key="6c86bb5b30a442c180772d978f3ae000"></x-map> in your HTML and have it rendered as a full blown map. Speed Up App Development with X-Tag and Web Components →X-Tag …
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Run tests using the browser or node.js and seamlessly integrate with SauceLabs or Selenium. Write tests using object, TDD, or BDD styles and get full code coverage reporting with Istanbul. Continuous integration? Intern has you covered with Travis CI support out-of-the-box. Looks promising. Bumping this one onto my todo list The Intern →
Wielding the tools from CSS and browser layout can enable stunning visualizations for web content. Using web features like CSS filters, WebGL, HTML5 video, SVG, canvas and evolving future tech like CSS Regions, CSS Shapes and CSS Custom Filters promises a hugely expanded creative landscape. National Geographic: Forest Giant (Demo) → Next Generation Web Layout: …
Right, we’ve got a new project, we have to calculate and draw 500,000 pixels, and the deadline is in 16.67 milliseconds. When we’re done, we’ll do it again, and again. Web performance has always been about delivering those pixels on time, but the target has shifted. Optimising pure JavaScript (loops, string concatination, arithmetic) is more …
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Liat Negrin, an employee at OrCam who has limited sight, demonstrates the Orcam device, which helps her cross streets, read menus and shop at the supermarket. Impressive. Very impressive. As Tim put it: This is the future of wearables. Meanwhile, Google Glass is trying to figure out how to make the life of rich people …
Give every Twitter user a brush and they will paint you the world — if they geotag their Tweets. Plot all geotagged tweets on a white canvas and you get back a view of the world according to Twitter’s users. Note how on the map above maritime traffic also is shown. The geography of Tweets …
Check out this Pen! Did you know that one of the most powerful tools for fluid and responsive layout has been a native feature for every browser since HTML4? A tad ugly due to those hardcoded placeholders, but sometimes you have to break a few rules to get an easy to work with result. Text-align: …
This Is The One. Simplify your living room with one device that does it all. Fan TV combines live TV, DVR and streaming in one single place. Hardware/Evolved version of the aforementioned Fanhattan (dd. 2011). This is a device I’d buy (given that it would work with the Belgian operators) and something the Belgian distributors …