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Understanding 3D Transforms
By Tiffany Brown · Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2
In this article we'll dig in to 3D transforms in detail, looking at the fundamental differences between 3D and 2D transforms, the 3D transforms available, and some demos that show how these work. Read more…
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Creating game-style parallax scrolling: Zombie Edition
By Elli Bishop · Friday, October 18, 2013 2
Ready to enter the world of parallax scrolling websites? Yes, scrolling sites are absolutely everywhere. Sadly, sometimes they do little more than distract and disorient a user in an attempt to show off, but when done correctly, they can make the web a more exceptional place. At its best, parallax scrolling can help users explore content in an immersive and engaging way. Read more…
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Media Capture in mobile browsers
By Francesco Iovine · Thursday, September 26, 2013 6
Media Capture is one of the most interesting features in web applications, especially for mobile devices. Surprisingly capturing media on the spot is quite a new thing for browsers in general, until recently always being delegated to browser plugins such as Flash or Silverlight. In this article we will explore how to use the Media Capture APIs, their compatibility across mobile browsers and the current state of the W3C specifications that define them. Read more…
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Getting to know mutation observers
By Tiffany Brown · Friday, September 6, 2013 2
In this article, Tiffany Brown has a look at mutation observers, how they are different from mutation events, and how you can use them in your web applications. Read more…
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An introduction to CSS regions
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, July 3, 2013 3
CSS regions is a nascent CSS feature that provides a way for us to completely decouple our content from our layout, flowing specified content containers into layout containers to give us a lot of flexible power. This article provides a basic introduction to using regions and serving fallbacks to non-supporting browsers. Read more…
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CSS viewport units: vw, vh, vmin and vmax
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, July 3, 2013 4
CSS viewport units allow us to size lengths on web pages relative to the viewport size, which has some interesting applications for responsive design. In this article we'll explore the fundamentals of this topic. Read more…
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Better performance with requestAnimationFrame
By Luz Caballero · Wednesday, June 12, 2013 20
This article discusses how you can (and should) improve the performance of your animations, using the requestAnimationFrame API instead of the old setInterval/setTimeout methods, and how
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Animating flexboxes: the lowdown
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, April 17, 2013 3
In this article, Chris Mills explores what can be achieved by using animations and transitions — along with a little JavaScript — in conjunction with Flexbox. Read more…