The Results of my Essential Tools, Libs and Frameworks for Front-End Development Survey

Two days ago, I put up a simple survey that asked what essential tools, libs and frameworks you were using for front-end development. I closed out the survey last night a little before 9pm EST and after getting 1000+ responses.… Continue Reading

Essential Tools, Libs and Frameworks for Front-End Development. What are you Using?

UPDATE: The poll is now closed. You can see the results in this blog post. I want to compile a list of the most common tools, frameworks & libs web developers are using today. Things seem to change daily with… Continue Reading

iOS to IE10 Metro: Building Cross-Browser Plugin-Free Experiences

I’ve had the good fortune of working with my friend Jonathan Sampson recently on figuring out how to help developers build plugin-free experiences. With IE10 Metro going plugin-free, it’s incredibly important to document steps to help developers provide their users… Continue Reading

How Polyfills “fill in the gaps” to make HTML5 and CSS3 Usable Today

There’s been a lot of commotion over the last week since the W3C announced that HTML5 is not ready yet for deployment to websites. Some really smart people have weighed in on this topic and I agree with their thoughts.… Continue Reading

Using @font-face and Font Squirrel to Enhance Your Site with Fonts

I’ve been dying to check out @font-face and so I popped over to Font Squirrel to see what they offered. Originally, I thought it was going to be a paid service but the cool thing is that they offer 100%… Continue Reading

Start Using CSS3 Pseudo-Classes in Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 using the Selectivizr JavaScript Library

Now that everyone is all giddy about CSS3 and all of the coolness it offers, lets get back down to earth. We still have older browsers to support so while using some of the new nifty features is definitely cool,… Continue Reading