List.js is a powerful way to allow users to sort and manipulate lists in your page without server interaction.
With the storm of new tools and developments in web development, keeping up with browser compatibility is important to balance better ways of doing things with the ability of your users being able to experience those tools properly. As a comfortable companion to css3please comes html5please, a way to know what new HTML5 features you can use now, with polyfills or fallbacks, and which are better to ignore altogether.
Remy Sharp continues to crank out some amazing web development. His latest is a mobile development tool, RemoteTilt, is for the desktop and emulates the accelerometer and gyroscope on a mobile device. Implement it with a single line of javascript. You can even connect it remotely to your mobile device to give you real-time feedback from the device to your desktop development environment.
Making presentations (in powerpoint or even a nice online service like sliderocket) can be a headache. You have to deal with compatibility issues, maybe downloading the slideshow and hope the user has the right software to run it, etc. HTML5 standards can solve this issue and allow you to use HTML and CSS coding skills you already have in your arsenal. Deck.js does a great job of making javascript-powered solution that is easy to implement and allows you to make your presentations as nice as your websites. There’s even support for swiping from slide to slide on a mobile device.
losttype.com has some really fonts and a great pay-what-you-want purchasing model to go with it. You can download the fonts for free (with a donation of $0) or help keep the great fonts coming by adding a donation to your download.
Here’s a great set of royalty-free web icons from webalys.com. These are well-designed and can be used to nicely accentuate your sites and apps. The full download version are Illustrator template-ready with Ai, EPS, PDF, PNG and PSD formats. Definitely worth the small amount or money for a great set of icons.
CSS3 has some great features, but they’re not universally supported, yet. Until then, we will have to add multiple lines in our style sheets for the different browsers to support things like gradients and shadows for as many users as possible.
Luckily for us, there are great time-saving tools like css3please.com which automagically (their words) update the code for all supporting browsers. Just edit one line and the rest auto-update!
Optimizing your site is important to help users have the fastest possible experience. As sites become more javascript-dependent, getting rid of unnecessary characters in your code, also known as ‘minifying’, plays an important role in faster sites. minifyjavascript.com has a simple, free tool to minify your javascript. Couldn’t be simpler.
