Designers/developers usually know the frequently-used CSS properties by heart. However, it is always handy to have a good documentation for easily remembering the rarely-used or new (CSS3) ones. InstaCSS is a very simplistic website that offers a great documentation of CSS properties without any distractions; a list of the properties, a search engine and user-friendly [...]
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DOM Monster is a bookmarklet, created by Thomas Fuchs of script.aculo.us, for analyzing the DOM and several other features of a page. It works cross-platform/browser, checks the HTML + JavaScript codes and can come with warnings/suggestions like: Reduce the number of tags that use the style attribute (85 elements) Found 16 JavaScript globals. Reducing them [...]
jqPagination is a jQuery plugin for quickly creating a JavaScript-controlled pagination interface and functionality. The plugin is controlled with the special class names and attributes of HTML elements (for defining the prev, next buttons or setting the max pages). It has a pretty unique, simple-yet-functional feature which is the ability to clicking on the pagination [...]
Sometimes, we need to display images that are bigger than the viewport or we have a limited space. PanoJS3 is a JavaScript widget that stitches together a set of tiled images and presents it with panning + zooming support. It is a very useful widget specially for displaying panoramic images, maps or huge documents. Besides [...]
selfoss is an open source and lightweight web application that can fetch content from any number of sources. RSS is the content type supported by default, however, with its plugin system, any new source types (log files, e-mails, etc.) can be implemented by adding a single class. The application has a simple-yet-functional interface which also [...]
The Goldilocks Approach is a boilerplate/starting point for creating responsive websites. It offers a slightly different practice from the most other responsive design frameworks which is: "targeting every resolution/device rather than only the popular ones". The boilerplate uses a combination of ems, max-width, media queries and pattern translations to consider just three states: multi column [...]
Player Framework is an open source video player framework for HTML5, Silverlight, Windows Phone and other platforms. It offers a JavaScript API for controlling the player where the API methods are the same on both the HTML5 and Silverlight versions. Such a consistency is very handy for using any of the versions as a fallback [...]
Many designers/developers were excited to see the launch of the jQuery Mobile ~a year ago and waited for the stable release to start building for mobile. With an announcement yesterday, the project officially reached to its first stable release. jQuery Mobile already supports a huge set of mobile browsers, has the ThemeRoller for mobile and [...]
MimiGlyphs is a beautiful set of free vector icons with 80 slick items in the pack. The set is in .PSD, .CSH (Photoshop custom shape) and transparent PNG formats (16*16px). Items in the set are a good fit to be used in web apps considering there are icons of actions, charts, comments, devices, social networking [...]
IM.js is a JavaScript library that can find the differences between images very quickly. It scans the given images pixel-by-pixel using HTML5 canvas and outputs their similarity ratios. The developer has created IM.js for auto-testing the similarity of URL snapshots taken from different browsers which is a great idea for quickly finding out any rendering [...]
