Web Development and Design Tutorials, Tips and Reviews

Introducing the Maqetta HTML5 Editor

Maqetta is an open source initiative of the Dojo Foundation that provides WYSIWYG web development in the cloud or locally. Moreover, it supports drag & drop assembly of live UI mockups, including HTML5 components. In today's article, Rob Gravelle gives Maqetta a once-over to test its design capabilities. Read More.

Using the done() Method in Your Jasmine-driven Asynchronous JavaScript Tests

Jasmine.Async is an add-on library for Jasmine that provides additional functionality to do asynchronous testing. Modeled after Mocha's async test support, it brings the done() function to the Jasmine unit testing environment. Rob Gravelle shows how the Jasmine.Async library makes your asynchronous process tests easier to write. Read More.

How to diagnose JavaScript Errors Faster with Error.stack

IE10 in Windows 8 Consumer Preview includes support for Error.stack , which enables Web developers to diagnose and correct bugs faster, especially those that are difficult to reproduce. Developers can build amazing apps with the capabilities of Web platforms that power today’s modern browsers. In Windows 8, we expose that power through both Internet Explorer 10 and Metro style apps in JavaScript . Read More.

Review: Sencha Animator for CSS3 Animations

Today we look at Sencha Animator, a program which allows you to create CSS3 animations. These animations are designed to have a similar look and feel as Flash, but with CSS3 and HTML5. Read More.

Create a Cross-browser Touch-based Joystick with Hand.js

This article explores how to use the Hand.js library to create a cross-browser, touch-based joystick. Read More.

Recent Articles

The Dangers of HTML5: WebSockets and Stable Standards

New HTML5 technologies like WebSockets offer some amazing new opportunities for Web developers. But they also show how implementing unstable standards may cause more harm to a site than the benefits of the technology. What is the role of browsers and how should developers plan for when developing with HTML5? Read More.

What Web Developers Have Learned in the Past 10 Years

IE6 shipped more than 10 years ago, but its non-standard implementation of the shifting standards of 2001 still haunts today's developers. As the Web shifts to HTML5, and new versions of IE, Firefox and Chrome debut, have we learned the lessons of IE6? Read More.