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It’s not difficult to learn, but it’s quite difficult to master. There are just too many things that need to be considered; too many tweaks that might be necessary here and there; too many details to make everything just right. Luckily, developers and designers out there keep releasing useful tools and resources for all of us to learn, improve our skills and just get better at what we do. Such tools are valuable and helpful because they save our time, automate mundane tasks and hence help us focus on more important things.
Here at Smashing Magazine, we’re continuously searching for time-saving, useful HTML-, CSS- and JavaScript-resources for our readers, to make the search of these ever-growing tools easier. HTML and CSS Tools InitializrThis tool creates a customizable template based on HTML5 Boilerplate. Layer StylesA nice simple tool for creating CSS in an intuitive way — very much like you would do with a graphics editor. Grids. 50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques. Advertisement CSS3 is coming.
Although the browser support of CSS 3 is still very limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and using the new possibilites of CSS3 for users with modern browsers. That’s a reasonable solution — after all it doesn’t make sense to avoid learning CSS3 (that will be heavily used in the future) only because these features are not supported yet. The point of this article is to give you a glimpse of what will be possible soon and what you will be using soon and provide you with an opportunity to learn about new CSS3 techniques and features.
In this post we present 50 useful and powerful CSS3/jQuery-techniques that can strongly improve user experience, improve designer’s workflow and replace dirty old workarounds that we used in Internet Explorer 6 & Co. 45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques. Advertisement CSS and JavaScript are extremely powerful tools for designers and developers.
However, sometimes it’s difficult to come up with the one excellent idea that would solve a problem that you are facing right now. Good news: almost every day designers and developers come up with fresh and clever CSS tricks and techniques and share them with other developers online. We regularly collect all these tricks, filter them, sort them, revise them and prepare them for Smashing Magazine readers. In this post we present 45 useful CSS/JavaScript-techniques that may help you find clever solutions to some of your problems or just get inspired by what is possible with CSS. Please notice that this is the first part of our large round-up of fresh CSS/JavaScript-techniques. Interesting CSS Techniques Building the New Visual AnnotationsThese note overlays are composed of two main elements, an overlay with the shine and a border with the transparency.
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At once bizarre and yet beautiful, it is surely the programming language that Pablo Picasso would have invented. Null is apparently an object, an empty array is apparently equal to false, and functions are bandied around as though they were tennis balls. This article is aimed at intermediate developers who are curious about more advanced JavaScript. It is a collection of JavaScript’s oddities and well-kept secrets. Some sections will hopefully give you insight into how these curiosities can be useful to your code, while other sections are pure WTF material. Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link. Seven JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career. Advertisement I’ve been writing JavaScript code for much longer than I care to remember.
I am very excited about the language’s recent success; it’s good to be a part of that success story. I’ve written dozens of articles, book chapters and one full book on the matter, and yet I keep finding new things. Here are some of the “aha!” Moments I’ve had in the past, which you can try out rather than waiting for them to come to you by chance. Shortcut Notations One of the things I love most about JavaScript now is shortcut notations to generate objects and arrays. Var car = new Object(); car.colour = 'red'; car.wheels = 4; car.hubcaps = 'spinning'; car.age = 4; The same can be achieved with: Much shorter, and you don’t need to repeat the name of the object. The other handy shortcut notation is for arrays. Var moviesThatNeedBetterWriters = new Array( 'Transformers','Transformers2','Avatar','Indiana Jones 4' ); The shorter version of this is: var direction = x < 200 ?
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