Web Components: Why? How? What? When? Where?
Now that Polymer has reached 1.0 and that browser vendors are talking about web components, it is time to revisit web components with a more critical eye and ask the following questions: What are web...
One Final Thing
One final thing # For those of us who have been playing in/with 'the web' for 10 years or longer remember pages like the ones in the figures below. There was no Javascript and, I believe, the original...
Test the hell out of everything
Testing on web applications is usually a pain and testing for our typographical work is no exception. We'll discuss how to build a cross-platform arsenal with a single laptop, Open box and 2 virtual...
Explorations and Experiments
Jen makes a great point on her presentation. Where are the awesome layouts that we see in print reflected on the web? We are not tied into the "rectangular boxes" wisdom of the web anymore....
Getting Fancy: Blend Modes
Compositing and Blending Level 1 candidate recommendation provides a way to composite elements in HTML and SVG using CSS. Think of the way you can create non destructive clips and masks in Photoshop;...
Getting fancy: Shapes and masks
CSS Shapes allow designers and content creators to match some magazines layouts where the text wraps around images and other polygonal and irregular shapes. Why do I include shapes in an essay about...
Getting Fancy: Animating text
Depending on the context and the type of text you're using animations can be useful. CSS Animation Level 1 provides a way to animate CSS properties over time. It uses key frames to create the...
Getting fancy: CSS Transformations
One of the most intriguing things we can do with text is change its position and the way it looks on the screen with nothing but CSS in browsers that support it. The good news is that all browsers...
Using SASS maps in media queries
Version 3 of SASS introduced the map data type. If you've done work in any other programming type you'll problbly be familiar with maps as associate arrays or hashes; SASS uses the same principle:...
Multicolumn layouts
CSS 3 allows you to create multi column layouts without cheating. According to caniuse.com the feature is supported to some degree by all browser vendors. We'll explore some of the things you can do...