Web Components: Why not use web components?
Wilson Page wrote a lengthy article in Mozilla Hacks about the state of web components. What I found most interesting about the piece are the reasons why web components have not reached recommendation...
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Web Components: Why use web components?
I can think of a few reasons why we should build and use web components. ### Clean and DRY Code If you look at the source code of any large web application you'll see that it's a mess of divs and...
Web Components: What are web components?
Web Components are a set of technologies that allow developers to create custom tags for their web projects. The technologies that make up web components are: Custom Elements allows you to create...
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...