If you are developing mobile web applications, you already experienced the difficulty of debugging them. iWebInspector is a free tool for debugging, profiling and inspecting web applications that run on iOS Simulator (iPhone or iPad). The tool simply attaches the Web Inspector to any tab opened in Safari for iOS, to a chrome-less web app [...]
Category Archive: Website Design Blog
The march toward 3.3 continues! With all our major tickets closed, we are very close to a release candidate. In Beta 4 we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs, cleaned up the UI, added real text in some of the screens that still had placeholder text in Beta 3 (post-update screen, the Dashboard welcome area, new [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We need your opinion! One of the features we’re adding to WordPress 3.3 (currently in beta 3) is intended to reduce widget pain. Say you’re using Theme A and you have a handful of widgets set up. You switch to Theme B, and it has different widget areas, so you add/remove/edit your widgets. Then you [...]
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 [...]
