A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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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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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Some interesting quotes by Richard Davey from his talk HTML5 Gaming on the Mobile Web is now live on Adobe TV: Things you’re told not possible today might be by the end of the project and Be prepared to un-learn what you know every 6 months Think of new features that appear in a canary/beta …
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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 →