Category: Web Technology
This is the second part of the post on the City Pages header images . If you want to read more about background-size:cover , start there.
Now you have your large, dynamically scaling image, it's time to make it better. You might have noticed that when you scale an image up, it can...
One of the most fulfilling aspects of web development is being able to add nice little touches that most people wouldn't even notice. These are the kind of things that web devs put in for professional pride and knowledge of a job well done.
One of my favourite minor additions that...
Web developers hardly have to deal with network-related issues. Most of the time the resources they have to deal with are completely under their control: images are served from a directory in the web server where the web site is hosted and perhaps cached by a content delivery network; CSS...
Nowadays, whatever effect or component a developer may need for a website or web application is available in the form of a jQuery plugin. Every other day I see a blog post with a title like "The best 25 jQuery carousels" or "The best 50 photo gallery plugins for jQuery"....
Often, when hacking around with various APIs, you'll find yourself needing to load in some data via AJAX or load a script from another domain. Depending on which technique or library you're using at the time, this can cause a security error. This error is due to the fact that the file you're...