Building A Real-Time Retrospective Board With Video Chat

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March 8, 2016 — If you’ve ever worked in an agile environment, chances are you’ve had your share of “retrospectives” — meetings where people write what made them “glad,” “mad” or “sad” onto different-colored notes, ... Read More…

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Shawn Jansepar wrote

Building A First-Class App That Leverages Your Website: A Case Study

February 10, 2016 — Mark Zuckerberg once said, “The biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native… because it just wasn’t there. And it’s not that HTML5 is bad. I’m actually, long term, really excited about it.” And who wouldn’t be excited by the … Read More…

Lyza Danger Gardner wrote

Making A Service Worker: A Case Study

February 2, 2016 — There’s no shortage of boosterism or excitement about the fledgling service worker API, now shipping in some popular browsers. There are cookbooks and blog posts, code snippets and tools. But I find that when I want to learn a new web concept thoroughly, rolling up my … Read More…

Nadav Soferman wrote

Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator, A New Open Source Tool

January 26, 2016 — Responsive websites, even the most modern ones, often struggle with selecting image resolutions that best match the various user devices. They compromise on either the image dimensions or the number of images. We can solve these issues and start calculating image breakpoints … Read More…

Drew Minns wrote

PostCSS – A Comprehensive Introduction

December 8, 2015 — The development of CSS, like all languages, is an iterative process. With every major release, we get new features and syntaxes that help us write our styles. CSS Level 3 introduced features that enable us to design interactions that previously were possible only with … Read More…

Ana Tudor wrote

Getting Started With CSS calc ()

December 3, 2015 — I first discovered the calc() function more than four years ago, thanks to CSS3 Click Chart, and I was absolutely delighted to see that basic mathematical computations — addition, subtraction, multiplication and division — had found their way into CSS. A lot of people think … Read More…

Sebastian Metzger wrote

A Responsive Material Design App With Polymer Starter Kit

October 14, 2015 — One upcoming technology that represents a big leap forward in making the web a mature application platform is web components. From a high-level perspective, web components will enable better composability, reusability and interoperability of front-end web application … Read More…

Marco Hengstenberg wrote

Mobile Navigation For Smashing Magazine: A Case Study

September 21, 2015 — Since we started plodding around on this rock in space, human beings have always been dissatisfied with their environment — which is (mostly) a good thing. Otherwise we might still live in caves, fearful of the weather and worshipping the sun. It’s dissatisfaction and … Read More…

Heydon Pickering wrote

Creating Cel Animations With SVG

September 14, 2015 — What if I told you there was an image format like GIF, but it worked with vectors? What if I said it was possible to reverse the direction of its animation? What if you could take one base image and animate different parts of it separately, at different speeds? Well, the … Read More…

Drew Minns wrote

Constructing CSS Quantity Queries On The Fly

July 29, 2015 — Often within a project, the presentation of our content changes based on certain needs. We see this when we use media queries to change our styles based on the user device. CSS quantity queries follow the same concept of changing the styles based on a condition: the … Read More…