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...
Theming the web with CSS Custom Properties
When I first heard about CSS Custom Properties (CSS Variables) one of the things I found most intriguing was the possibility of creating themes and have multiple themes available for use. In this post...
Literate CSS
here's an idea... take a markdown file containing both documentation and the SCSS/CSS code it references as fenced markdown blocks and use that to generate your production code. Granted, it is not a...