Amazon Prime Air

Get packages into customers’ hands in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles Still remove a few years from us. Why announce now? This quote, by Hiten Shah, I can relate to: This is a pre-emptive move to help the world go in the way Amazon wants it to go. Perhaps to help push …

Export Flash Pro CC to HTML5 Canvas

With its latest update, Flash Professional CC empowers the open web ecosystem by providing native support for HTML5. You can now natively author and publish HTML5 Canvas content from within Flash Pro. Powered by CreateJS. Also comes with a AS3 to JS converter. Adobe Flash CC: What’s New → Flash Professional Help: Creating and publishing …

Creating Non-Rectangular Layouts with CSS Shapes

With the introduction of CSS Shapes into the web, wrapping content in custom non-rectangular shapes, and recreating print designs and layouts on the web becomes a piece of cake! In this article we’re going to go over the basics of declaring shapes, and creating some simple layouts using these new CSS technologies. Creating Non-Rectangular Layouts …

Grade components, not browsers

At Filament Group these days, we try to build our sites out of modular, independent components, and we document them for our clients that way as well. In taking a component-driven approach to building websites, we’ve found that the browser features required to offer an A-Grade experience of a particular component become much easier to …

Rendering Performance Case Studies

Once again another rock solid presentation by Addy Osmani on page performance. (RSS Readers: presentation embedded above. Original can be found here) Related: Gone In 60fps – Making A Site Jank-Free and all related posts to that post. Also see Paul Lewis’ talk from Fronteers 2013 on the subject.