Recent Blog Posts
Blogs » JavaScript & CSS
Stylish Scripting
: JavaScript & CSS BlogStar Wars Makes CSS3 Animations and Transformations Make Sense
Anthony Calzadilla had made an impressive AT-AT walker animation using only CSS3. Find out how he did it.
Introducing Gordon: the Flash Player Written in JavaScript
That’s right – it’s a Flash player written in JavaScript. So why emulate a browser plugin within a browser? Craig discusses Gordon and its potential impact on Apple’s iPhone and iPad.
How to Fix Randomly Disappearing Absolutely-Positioned Elements in IE
IE may have some strange bugs but this one is stranger than most. Craig describes the nasty problem and provides a solution for disappearing absolutely-positioned elements which are time-dependent!
jQuery 1.4 Released
jQuery 1.4 has been released. Craig looks at the new version of the web’s most popular JavaScript framework.
Google Releases its JavaScript Closure Tools
Do we need more JavaScript libraries and tools? Perhaps not, but since these power Google Search, GMail, Docs and Maps, they’re worth another look.
Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript
What if Google released a JavaScript library that sucked, and no one noticed? JavaScript expert Dmitry Baranovskiy has peeked under the hood of Google’s new Closure Library, and he doesn’t like what he sees. Follow along as he points out a few of the library’s many failings, and why the Web deserves better from Google.
Video: CSS Frameworks – Make the Right Choice
Choose the right framework and you’ll save yourself a lot of work. Choose the wrong one, and you’ll find your projects weighed down by restrictive assumptions and masses of code that you don’t understand. When it comes to CSS frameworks, making the right choice is everything.
Fixing Object Instances in JavaScript
Even experienced coders can get caught out by object handling in JavaScript, and handing your code to other developers can intensify problems. Craig looks at the problem of creating object instances and provides a quick solution.
CSS Frameworks and Semantic Class Names
CSS frameworks often contain crufty, non-semantic code. Does it have to be that way? Kevin shows us how semantic markup and CSS frameworks can coexist happily.
Interesting CSS Quirks: Border-spacing
I came across a CSS peculiarity recently that had me scratching my head, so I thought it was worth popping in a little post here for future Googling head-scratchers.