Ah, isn’t it cool to see how far we’ve come? While there are still a fair amount of restrictions and browser compatibility, there are some cool things that can be done by combining some CSS with good ol’ jQuery.
Check this jQuery plugin out that allows a simple way to have curved text that’s actual text — and not a graphical representation of text. Love it — as long as it’s used sparingly and appropriately.
How to Curve Your Text Using CSS3 and jQuery – Arctext.js Responsive jQuery Plugin
Friend and co-worker asked me this morning if I knew of a way to make text scale to always fill the width of its parent element. I was pretty sure it couldn’t be done with just CSS, and especially be cross-browser compatible.
Benchmarks are all over the place, but the interesting bit about this one is that this one is really spurred by Google forking the Webkit project, making its own spinoff called “Blink,” which allows it to separate itself from Apple’s Nitro JS processor, which Chrome doesn’t utilize.
Samsung (and others) end up as the odd men out though, as it uses the Apple WebKit Engine, but Chrome’s V8 JS engine. Things could get interesting going forward if these forks… well fork more.
WebKit Releases New SunSpider 1.0 Benchmark to Chart the Future of JavaScript Performance
This is simple, but so nice: they’re animated subtly and inspired by desktop notifications using JavaScript.
Love this, and will be utilized as soon as I have a need for it.
Really nice menu effect that mimics something seen on YouTube. It’s done mainly in HTML and CSS, with a touch of JavaScript.
Love the Mansonry JavaScript plugins out there, but this is cool in that it addresses the biggest issue of Masonry: the gaps than can occur in layouts. Can’t wait to check it out.
This is one of those things I always have to look up whenever I utilize it, and it’s changed slightly in newer jQuery cores. Came across this article this morning that documents all the various ways to test whether a form’s checkbox is checked:
The link below is a nice little primer/refresher on the JavaScript reserved keyword, “this” and its different contexts — illustrating what “this” would represent in each case.
This really seems like a winner. I need to take a few hours in a coming weekend to give it a try, to have enough familiarity with it to have in the back of my mind for a project that it would work with. It really seems too good to be true.
Their web site’s home page does a good job of boiling it down:
Jo was made for apps, not websites.
Your HTML5 app lives in a single page and Jo helps you create a native-like app experience. Sure, there’s some DOM manipulation going on in there, but you don’t have to worry about it unless you want to. Build your app with JavaScript, tweak some CSS and call it a day.
