Archive for the ‘CSS3’ Category

node-webkit

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

node-webkit

From the webpage:

node-webkit is an app runtime based on Chromium and node.js. You can write native apps in HTML and Javascript with node-webkit. It also lets you to call Node.js modules directly from DOM and enables a new way of writing native applications with all Web technologies.

Will HTML5 and Javascript, via apps like node-webkit free users from developer based interfaces?

Developer based interfaces are intended to be useful for others, or at least I suspect so, but quite often fall short of the mark.

Apps like node-webkit should encourage rapid prototyping and less reluctance to trash yesterday’s interface code. (I said “should,” whether it will or not remains to be seen.)

Rather than a “full featured” topic map editor, how would you divide the task of authoring a topic map into pieces?

I first saw this in Christophe Lalanne’s A bag of tweets / November 2012.

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WebPlatform.org [Pump Up Web Technology Search Clutter]

Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

WebPlatform.org

From the webpage:

We are an open community of developers building resources for a better web, regardless of brand, browser or platform. Anyone can contribute and each person who does makes us stronger. Together we can continue to drive innovation on the Web to serve the greater good. It starts here, with you.

From Matt Brian:

In an attempt to create the “definitive resource” for all open Web technologies, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera have joined the W3C to launch a new website called ‘Web Platform‘

The new website will serve as a single source of relevant, up-to-date and quality information on the latest HTML5, CSS3, and other Web standards, offering tips on web development and best practises for the technologies.

I first saw this at the Semanticweb.com (Angela Guess).

So, maybe having documentation, navigable and good documentation, isn’t so weird after all. ;-)

Assume I search for guidance on HTML5, CSS3, etc. Now there is a new site to add to web technology search results.

Glad to see the site, but not the addition to search clutter.

I suppose you could boost the site in response to all searches for web technology. Wonder if that will happen?

Doesn’t help your local silo of links.

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Hakim [Graphics, Visualizations]

Monday, September 3rd, 2012

Hakim by Hakim El Hattab.

I was following a link to Reveal.js HTML Presentations Made Easy when I discovered its “parent” site.

A likely source of ideas for visualization for your data sets.

I first saw this at DZone.

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Collection of CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials

Sunday, July 8th, 2012

Collection of CSS3 Techniques and Tutorials

From the post:

For today I have selected few fresh and useful CSS3 tutorials for your next project. CSS3 and HTML5 are the topics that you see and hear everyday and I think it is the right time to start diving into it. While there is no freedom in expressing our ideas in CSS3 prior to weak support in major browsers we want to be the first ones when it is fully supported right? Besides chasing the trends you will gain valuable experience in HTML5 and jQuery which will help you to solve your problems in your projects.

This techniques can be proficiently functioned using markup, HTML, and some improved properties of CSS3. It has many features which are not compatible with the old web browsers and hence it will require some present day internet browsers like Internet Explorer 7 & 8, Chrome, Safari and Firefox to use the CSS3. It can be used in developing the following techniques:

  • It can be used to create multiple backgrounds
  • Developing and drawing border images
  • Handling of opacity
  • Used in text- shadowing and box sizing
  • Used for support of columns of many different web layouts.

If we go back on time we will realize how far we have come from the time of Adobe’s Flash and JavaScript, which were used to create some cool designs. Then came the new version of CSS and it was CSS3 that has transformed the world of animation with its transition features. It is the markup language that has many other applications that can be used for designing web pages that are written in XHTML or HTML. Whereas on the other hand, CSS is made for primary separation of documents that are written in simple markup languages. The content accessibility provides elements which can differ from fonts to layouts and colors.

In this compilation you will find few tutorials on creating amazing transition effects, slideshows, navigation menus and much more.

However clever your models, searching/extraction protocols, etc., there will come a time when results have to be delivered.

Graphs, charts, visualizations, networks, static and interactive will play a role, but so will basic web design/delivery techniques.

You should be aware of what is possible, should you decide to out source the design task.

This collection illustrates the range of modern web presentations. Will also make you wonder about some of the web presentations you encounter.

I first saw this at DZone.

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