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- Impetus.js
Long story short: I made a simple JavaScript utility for adding momentum to anything — Impetus.js. Long story: I used to play around with creating panoramas (you know, before smartphones made it easy to make bad ones), and I was wondering if you could display a spherical panorama using CSS 3D transforms. Turns out you can. I wasn’t the first…
- I Still Love Firefox
I switched to Chrome as my primary browser almost right after it was released. The UI was minimal and fast, and I loved it. And the developer tools matured at lightning speed, so it wasn’t long before I dropped Firefox for development too. And Firefox was relegated to the status of “testing only,” right alongside IE. But here’s the thing:…
- Stats for 2013
Well I don’t think I’ll do this again, but, to continue last year’s tradition… In 2013, I added a paltry 6 posts to cbateman.com. Page views increased to about 26,500, in large part thanks to my Chrome experiment. International traffic also increased – the top countries were: USA (27%), UK (7%), India (6%), and Germany (5%). San Antonio lost its…
- High-DPI Media Queries and Standards
If you’re doing “retina” media queries on your site and they look something like this: @media (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5) { you might not be coding with standards. And maybe you thought you’d add some more versions, just to be safe: @media (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5), (-moz-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5), (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5) { The bad news for you is that neither -moz-min-device-pixel-ratio nor min-device-pixel-ratio have been…
- Hill Country JS
I’m really excited to help launch the San Antonio JavaScript user group: Hill Country JS. If you live in the San Antonio area and have any interest in JavaScript or front-end development, this will be a fantastic opportunity to network with like-minded folks and learn from industry experts. Our first meeting is 7pm on Wednesday, Sep. 18 at Geekdom. We’re…