WebZap is a web developer panel extension for Adobe Photoshop that is designed to help streamline the design processes undertaken by website user interface designers during the mock up and wire framing phases of web site development. Whilst I like this from a technical point of view (straight in Photoshop, huh?!) I think you’re better …
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How the Tesla Model S is Made – Behind The Scenes
Why mobile web apps are slow
It may prove to be a very stupid idea, but this article is my attempt to talk reasonably about a topic that has so far spawned 100% unreasonable flamewar-filled bikeshed discussions. A lengthy, yet highly informative, and very in-depth article on why exactly JS-heavy web apps run slow on mobiles. Goes into depth on garbage …
Kit FUI
Fantasy User Interfaces, Fictional User Interfaces, Fake User Interfaces, Futuristic User Interfaces. Regardless of what the F stands for, they all represent the same thing, the user interfaces and heads up displays found in many popular movies and television shows. Kit FUI is an IMDb-like database that makes it easy to find screenshots, videos and …
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console.snapshot
Output snapshots and screenshots of canvas elements directly in the console of the Chrome Dev Tools var canvas = document.createElement(“canvas”), ctx = canvas.getContext(“2d”); // … //draw // … console.screenshot(canvas, 0.8); //Snapshot it and scale the output to 80% of the original size Resulting output is the image picture above. Also supports creating a snapshot which …
Sizing (Web) components by adding a Trojan horse into your CSS
So when it comes to changing the size of a component [of a framework], for example making a Slider bigger for touch input, it might get tedious fiddling with all the widths/heights, border-radi.. etc. So how can we make it easier? Well, by sneaking a Trojan horse into your components and use it to control …
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Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 —The Future of Color Fonts?
With Windows 8.1, Microsoft’s operating system now also supports color emoji. But they did it in a very different way than Apple and Google. Instead of using PNG images, they introduced a support for layered vector glyphs! Reminds of that neat trick where one would layer webfonts/icofonts on top of eachother, all in a different …
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