It is impossible to hire real JavaScript developers as 90% of applicants come in and only know jQuery. They have no clue what an event handler is, how to navigate the DOM or create a simple XHR call without the library. — Christian Heilmann And that’s exactly why I do teach my students the bare …
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C&A Fashion Like
C&A Brazil: A new initiative called Fashion Like allows people to ‘like’ certain items of clothing on the company’s Facebook page, and these clicks are collated and displayed on the relevant clothes rack in real-time. Customers are thereby able to view the item’s online popularity in the real world to help them make their decision. …
SoundWave – Using the Doppler Effect to sense Gestures
Do Kinect-like things on your computer, but without the Kinect: the technique uses your speakers and microphone to sense what gesture you are making. Called SoundWave, the new technology uses the Doppler effect to detect any movements and gestures in the proximity of a computer. The Doppler effect, if you remember high school physics, is …
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requestAnimationFrame Introduction
VideoSWS – HTML5 Video Player Comparison
Avería – The Average Font
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe finally gets their pricing right and affordable: for $49.99/month you get access to practically all Adobe apps (latest versions) and a few services such as Typekit. That’s a steal at $600/year. If you’re an existing CS3+ customer or a student/teacher it’s only $29.99/mo. Adobe Creative Cloud →
WebSockets: A Guide
Opera Mobile Emulator with support for (some) -webkit vendor prefixes
Opera, along with Mozilla, announced at a CSS Working Group meeting that we would support some -webkit prefixes. This is because through our site compatibility work, we have experienced that many authors of (especially mobile) sites only use -webkit prefixed CSS, thereby ignoring other vendor prefixes and not even including an unprefixed equivalent. This leads …
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