Welcome to my blog. I write about JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, PHP, and more. I tweet too.
I work for Mozilla. I get to dress up the Mozilla Developer Network and Mozilla Marketplace.
Script & Style features the web's best original JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5 blog posts.
I'm a member of the MooTools team. I've written hundreds of MooTools tutorials.
I'm incredibly honored to have Eugene Lazutkin author for David Walsh Blog. Eugene has written much of the vector graphic code for the Dojo Toolkit's dojox/gfx (and subsequent charting and drawing resources) library, a library I consider to be mind-blowingly awesome. Eugene chose to write about dcl, an ultra-flexible, tiny OOP JS library.
CSS is a complete conundrum; we all appreciate CSS because of its simplicity but always yearn for the language to do just a bit more. CSS has evolved to accommodate placeholders, animations, and even click events. One problem we always thought we'd have with CSS, however, was its static nature; i.e. there's really no logic, per se. The CSS calc routine bucks that trend, providing developers an ounce of programming ability within CSS.
Read Post View DemoThis media query has not yet been implemented and is currently only a proposed spec. I've written this post to raise awareness of it and get general thoughts about it.
Read Post View DemoOne of my favorite social APIs was the Open Graph API adopted by Facebook. Adding just a few META tags to each page allowed links to my article to be styled and presented the way I wanted them to, giving me a bit of control over how my content is presented on Facebook. Twitter's new Twitter Cards API allows for the same idea: add META tags to your pages to allow links to your site to be more informational when tweeted. Implementing Twitter Card META tags on your site takes five minutes, applying for approval from Twitter takes another five minutes, and from that point forward, your content is presented much more professionally. Let's get started!
Read PostMany of the new APIs provided to us by browser vendors are more targeted toward the mobile user than the desktop user. One of those simple APIs the Vibration API. The Vibration API allows developers to direct the device, using JavaScript, to vibrate in a pattern for a given duration.
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