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April 3, 2014 — The way we access the Web has changed a lot in the last couple of years. We no longer rely solely on our desktop computers to navigate the Web. Rather, we use a wide and quickly growing array of devices to get our daily dose of information. With the device landscape going all fuzzy, the time of building fixed width desktop sites has definitely come to an end. ConditionerJS will help you combine all of this contextual information to pinpoint the right moment to load the functionality you need. It tells your JavaScript when to act up and when to tune down a bit, and it will help you combine all of this contextual information to pinpoint the right moment to load the functionality you need. Read more…

March 5, 2014 — Responsive SVG icons can be used in a lot of ways. In this article, Ilya Pukhalski digs deeper into Joe Harrison’s responsive icons technique and explores what can be done with SVGs. Read more…

March 4, 2014 — Web Components are a suite of connected technologies aimed at making elements reusable across the Web. The lion’s share of the conversation has been around Shadow DOM, but probably the most transformative technology of the suite is Custom Elements, a method of defining your own elements, with their own behavior and properties. Read more…

February 13, 2014 — In this series of articles, Gabriele Romanato will cover in depth a practical implementation of session storage by creating a complete e-commerce shopping cart with the sessionStorage object and jQuery. Remember that, in these articles, you won’t find a new technique to replace existing server-side techniques, but rather just a proof of concept of session storage. Read more…

February 12, 2014 — In this article, Mark McDonnell will go over the techniques required to build a command line tool using Node.js and PhantomJS (this is just one example of the sort of command line tools you can develop with Node.js’ many features). Always consider automating the process with a CLI tool the next time you find yourself performing a repetitive task. Read more…

February 5, 2014 — After writing his latest article, “Writing A Better JavaScript Library For The DOM”, Maksim Chemerisuk realized that it’s important to understand what exactly live extensions are and how they work since the topic is extremely complex. In today’s article, he will answer most questions that were asked regarding “live extensions”. Read more…

January 23, 2014 — Function binding is probably your least concern when beginning with JavaScript, but when you realize that you need a solution to the problem of how to keep the context of “this” within another function, then you might not realize that what you actually need is Function.prototype.bind(). Read more…

January 13, 2014 — Lately, Maksim Chemerisuk has started to see more and more problems with jQuery’s core and can’t be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility. He, like many others, continued using the library for a while, navigating all of the pesky quirks every day. Then, Daniel Buchner created SelectorListener, and he started to think about creating a set of functions that would enable the possibility of building unobtrusive DOM components using a better approach. Read more…

November 21, 2013 — You want to be lean and you want to be agile by using technologies that will help you succeed in the short and long term. And those technologies are not always easy to pick out. Full-stack JavaScript hits all the marks. You’ve probably seen it around. With JavaScript, you can create scalable, maintainable applications, unified under a single language. There’s no doubt, it’s a force to be reckoned with. In this article, Alejandro Hernandez will introduce these components piece by piece. Read more…

November 18, 2013 — Video on the Web has improved quite a bit since 7th grade. But for the most part, videos are still separate from the Web, cordoned off by iframes and Flash and bottled up in little windows in the center of the page. They’re a missed opportunity for Web designers everywhere. But how do you integrate video into an app or a marketing page? In this article, Sean Fioritto will find inspiration, how-tos and a few technical goodies to get you started with modern video on the Web. Read more…