Draggable controls raise an interesting challenge when Backbone.Views share a common model. Such controls include colorpickers, slides, and positionable elements. When users move around a color wheel or acutely adjust the position of an element, change events should trigger to let other …
blogger Viget | Extend
Terry White writes, Lightroom 4.4 is now available as a Release Candidate on Adobe Labs. The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all of our customers. The final release of …
blogger John Nack
It’s refreshing to see an artist trade slickness for candor, and that’s just what Julieanne does in showing off the trial, error, and production techniques that went into creating her still life piece “Cyclical”:
blogger John Nack
Around this time every year, companies start doing their annual reviews. Coincidentally, software engineers start wondering what their peers and managers will be saying about them. Throughout my career I’ve always watched as colleagues worried about the results of their annual review. Will …
blogger Nicholas C. Zakas
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jQuery.IO jQuery.IO (GitHub: sporto / jquery_io.js , License: MIT ) by Sebastian Porto can be used to convert between form data, query strings, and JSON strings. It uses JSON.parse , and comes with tests and …
blogger Alex Young
Camera Raw 7.4 and DNG Converter 7.4 Release Candidates are now available on Adobe Labs. (Remember, release candidates are versions that we think should be ready for use, but which still need a bit more testing & are being offered as public previews.) This release includes bug fixes, new …
blogger John Nack
Brad and Dave and I were sitting around after InControl talking about design patterns that hadn’t been explored as much. Dave mentioned “Search with Filters” as an example. There can be quite a lot of UI involved in a search filter, so you have the challenge of displaying that …
blogger Brad Frost
In November, 2012, I attended Devoxx in Antwerp for the first time to present
some recent developments in client-side security. Content Security
Policy of course was at the top of my list. I think the presentation
does a nice job walking through the rationale behind some practices I’d like …
blogger Mike West
This is pretty much the coolest thing ever. Illustrator Nozzman took my Death to Bullshit talk and illustrated it. It’s beautiful!
blogger Brad Frost
Some design patterns have been explored fairly thoroughly as we've moved into an era of responsive design. Others not so much. There are plenty of complex patterns that are still worth exploring, like this one. Search with Filters Responsive Design Pattern is a post from CSS-Tricks
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“The Adobe Creative Cloud, Zombies and Beer – It doesn’t get better than that,” says Russell Brown. He points out that his ADIM13 show (April 7-10 in Boulder, CO), features some great speakers, including Julieanne Kost Chris Converse Mordy Golding Sandee Cohen Katrin Eismann James White According …
blogger John Nack
Theresa Neil posted some slides rounding up some navigation patterns for retail mobile sites. Theresa made the amazing Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, which is a fantastic resource and was insanely helpful for me when I started making the responsive pattern library. But I was a bit bummed when I …
blogger Brad Frost
The Pixel. Last week I was invited to a “secret workshop” at one of the Google campuses in London. Knowing that Addy Osmani works there I expected something to do with Yeoman or AngularJS, but it turned out to be a small launch event for the Chromebook Pixel. I ended up walking out …
blogger Alex Young
Just now I published the desktop and mobile tables for the CSS Text module and related ones — think italics, underline, and letter-spacing, but also hyphenation and text-shadow. This is a series of tests in which Firefox excels. It is the only browser to implement new declarations such as …
blogger Peter-Paul Koch
Check out Matteo Civaschi’s set of clever pictogram movie posters that encapsulate this year’s nominees in pictogram form. For example, there’s the Life of Pi:
blogger John Nack
I’m really really really excited for Artifact Conf. I’m as excited as I was for the first BDConf. Here’s why. Before the first Breaking Conference, a lot of ridiculously smart people thinking about a lot of important things regarding the mobile web, but the ideas were scattered …
blogger Brad Frost
Did you ever wonder? Well, me neither, but it still makes for a kinda entertaining little film: [Via]
blogger John Nack
Two days ago I've submitted a JavaScript loader to 140byt.es since this loader, once minified, fits into 136 bytes . The reason the entry is 140 in the site is that I've left on purpose /**/ to easily spot where you should put JS files to load. And That's Not It Once we have an Array, we have …
blogger Andrea Giammarchi
I really enjoyed hearing master storyteller Ken Burns discuss how his personal history helped give rise to his life’s work, and more: You can read much more detail in this interview on The Atlantic. Just as interesting to me, from a geeky perspective, is the way the famous & simple Ken …
blogger John Nack
Eric Meyer ( @meyerweb ) is a CSS champion, author , and co-founder of the An Event Apart conferences. He talked about the end of an era of layout (and the beginning of a new one). These are my notes from his presentation at W3Conf in San Francisco as part of this live blog series . In the …
blogger CSS Tricks
Nicolas Gallagher ( @necolas ) is a front end developer at Twitter and has worked on big projects like HTML5 Boilerplate and Normalize.css . Nicolas talked about question old assumptions about front end web development. These are my notes from his presentation at W3Conf in San Francisco as part …
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Tomomi Imura ( @girlie_mac ) works on the Open Web at Nokia and talked about real life use cases for HTML5 on mobile devices. These are my notes from her presentation at W3Conf in San Francisco as part of this live blog series . The changes in mobile devices over the last 10 years has been …
blogger CSS Tricks
How animating ListView items can lead to problems as views are recycled, and how to perform these types of animations correctly with new API added in Jellybean. Code: http://developer.android.com/shareables/devbytes/ListViewAnimations.zip YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MIfSxgsHIs
blogger Chet Haase
Léonie Watson ( @leoniewatson ) is a digital accessibility consultant from Bristol, UK. She believes in the importance of accessibility and also that it's not a hinderance to creativity. These are my notes from his presentation at W3Conf in San Francisco as part of this live blog series . What …
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Joshua Davis is an artist who sees the web as a creative canvas. He uses computers to make art, but isn't limited to that as a tool. These are my notes from his presentation at W3Conf in San Francisco as part of this live blog series . Notable projects include: Designing the face of "Watson" who …
blogger CSS Tricks
Assume for a second that TJ Holowaychuk’s Component project isn’t the future. And then let’s say that, due to support from Twitter and Google (through Yeoman ), Bower becomes the de facto tool for managing and installing client-side dependencies. Whether you’re using …
blogger Alex Young
Photoshop CS6 subscribers can download a new panel for applying cool paper texture effects. If you don’t yet have it, download the Adobe Exchange panel for Photoshop CS6 (note the Download button up top). Double click the package to install it. Restart Photoshop & then open the panel by …
blogger John Nack