SOPA, if passed, will work in conjunction with PIPA. As described by such entities as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, SOPA is nothing more so than the U.S. government and private corporations black list. Here is a breakdown of the power given to the government and private corporations. The U.S. Attorney General can now seek a [...]
Web browsers are probably the most widely used software and so it is often good to know, as a web developer and designer how browsers work. In this article by HML5 Rocks, they explain how they work behind the scenes. It will explain what happens when a URL is entered in the address bar until [...]
The portfolio of Tomas Pojeta is one which we fell in love with. With it’s perfectly illustrated characters and amazing vertically scrolling outdoor scene it looks simply breathtaking on our huge 32″ monitors. Divided into three cartoony illustrated areas; The sky, The land and the bottom of the sea each acting as their own “page”. [...]
The “onclick” of a <select><option> is useful when a drop down option needs to run a specific Javascript function. I found this Internet Explorer bug today whilst building a quote form for a car finance company. With such a complicated form it is essential that input fields are removed and added dynamically as the form is [...]
jQuery.fracs determines the fraction of an object which is in the current viewport (be it a wholy visible, completely invisible or a partially visible object). It is a handy aid in designing one page websites or websites viewed on portable devices with smaller screens where page objects may or may not be in full view. [...]
Find yourself ever needing tooltips that can be positioned anywhere you like? Try grumble.js. Without the standard limitations of north/east/south/west positioning of tooltips grumble allows complete 360 degree control over where the tooltips are positioned. It also comes with FX queues for animating multiple grumbles and a simple sprite image background which can be changed [...]
Over the last week an article has gone viral which stated that users of IE have a lower IQ than users of Chrome, Firefox and Safari, while users of Camino and Opera have the highest. Research by AptiQuant has recently shown that those with a low IQ resist the change to from Internet Explorer to [...]
Modernizr is an open-source Javascript library that helps you build next generation HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites. It takes advantage of what HTML5 and CSS3 has to offer and makes sure those old incompatible browsers are brought up to date. In essence Modernizr is simply a feature detection library which appends classes to the <html> tag [...]
HTML5 is hitting the masses now with many mainstream websites starting to use the new web standards there is a clear need for a template system for us web designers to use. The HTML5 boilerplate (Also known as H5BP) is the place to start. Their website states: “H5BP brings delicious documentation, a site optimizing build [...]
