Local apps versus hosted tools
Rachel Andrew's It’s more than just the words triggered a reflection that I want to share with you. Does anyone remember when the only way to get a site online was to get your school (if you were so...
Adding AMP to a Wordpress blog
Introduction # I love AMP as a technology. As restrictive as it is I think it's so for a reason. We've let the web grow fat and we need a way to work around that until technologies like Promised...
Revisiting video encoding: DASH
Although DASH is designed for both on-demand and live streaming events, I'll concentrate on on-demand content. Also important to note. Even though EME is part of DASH we will not work with EME...
Revisiting Video Encoding: MP4 and WebM
Introduction # When HTML first introduced the video tag I was pumping my fist in joy. No more plugins to play video content. It was as simple as creating marlup like the one below to play and video in...
Creating printable content from the web
Creating printable content from the web # All the stylesheets are written in SCSS and converted to CSS through the build process. In early 2015 I played with the idea of creating a custom XML...
What does it take to develop a Wordpress site?
I had a very interesting conversation at my coffee shop the other day. It revolved around Wordpress and how easy it is (or isn't) to modify and customize. In the 10+ years I've been using it things...
Looking at animations again… GSAP
Green Sock Animation Platform (GSAP) is an animation powerhouse. It's a Javascript based library designed to animate most CSS and SVG properties. GSAP components are (Taken from Getting Started with...
Looking at animations again... WAAPI
The Web Animation API seeks to unify CSS transitions and animations with SMIL-based SVG animations under one API making it easier to implement on the browser side and easier to learn for designers and...
Looking at animations again... 3 ways to animate content on your page
We've been able to animate content both in 2D and 3D for a while now. The animation effects range from the subtle UX enhancements like material design ripples for buttons and floating action buttons...
Introducing VTT
I originally wrote this post for the Web Platform Documentation Project. Since the project was halted in 2015 I decided to move the text to this blog while the companion code repository remains on...