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Using the YUI 3 Calendar Date Selector from Alloy
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The Alloy components (contributed by Nate Cavanaugh and Eduardo Lundgren from Liferay) in the YUI 3 Gallery are simple to use. This example illustrates the use of the Alloy calendar to progressively enhance a set of select elements for date selection.
Let’s start with the markup — the HTML that will be on the page [...]
Everything you wanted to know about web fonts but were afraid to ask. Richard Fink summarizes the latest news in web fonts, examining formats, rules, licenses, and tools. He creates a checklist for evaluating font hosting and obfuscation services like Typekit; looks at what’s coming down the road (from problems of advanced typography being pursued [...]
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Introducing Sencha Touch: HTML5 Framework for Mobile
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We’re excited to introduce Sencha Touch, the first HTML5 framework for mobile devices. We think it’s the first cross-platform framework that builds web apps that make sense for mobile devices.
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The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 27 – Remy Sharp, Part 2
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We again sit down with Remy Sharp in this second of a three part interview. This week we talk with Remy about HTML5 and the future of the spec and how to work with HTML5 today with JavaScript shims.
You can subscribe to the show in iTunes or via the raw RSS feed or you [...]
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Scaling UI controls appropriately on the mobile Web
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Using the mobile Web with modern devices that give you the “full Web” and allow you to zoom in and out on the page (if zooming hasn’t been turned off of course).
Sam Stephenson (of Prototype and 37Signals fame) has taken on the problem of the sizing of controls. If you zoom out, normally, controls are [...]
We may be in the midst of the NBA finals, but In the Wild leads off this week with an item that gets us thinking about August. And football, in turn, gets us thinking about marriage, and in particular about the first known use of YUI in a marriage proposal. Let us know in the [...]
Thomas has a great post today on how he took the lovely Every Time Zone HTML5 app for the iPad and went deep to make it perform smoothly to match its beauty.
He has documented what he did:
Canvas optimizations over images: Thomas found out that using -webkit-gradient produces images which slow down the rendering on the [...]
Many of the benefits people associate with “HTML5” is actually CSS3 and Javascript. The cutting-edge modules of CSS3 build on the widely supported CSS2.1 spec and allow for truly stunning interfaces.
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The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 25 – Menno Van Slooten
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This week Rey and I sat down with Menno Van Slooten at the Bay Area jQuery Conference 2010. Menno gave a presentation about automated UI testing and focused on a framework he has developed at eBuddy to do UI testing on our their web messenger.
Rey is travelling to TXJS this week so I [...]
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An Introduction to Using YUI 3 in Offline Applications
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About the author: Alex Kessinger works as a front-end engineer at Yahoo! Past working as a front-end, he enjoys working on the entire stack. He also spends a lot of time reading, curating, and writing about the internet, social media, and building websites. You can find all of it at his website alexkessinger.net. [...]