Best of JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3 - Week of April 16, 2012

Best of JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3 - Week of April 16, 2012:
By usual standards, this was kind of a light week. There were tons of posts but many people seemed focused on the great semicolon debate of 2012. At this point the number of time and words devoted to a single punctuation mark is rather astonishing. Nonetheless, there were still some great posts this week such as Mike Robinson's HTML5 semantics discussion and Tom Giannattasio showing how the Beercamp pop-up book site was built using CSS.

Tutorials

A thorough guide to how numbers are encoded in JavaScript from Dr. Axel Rauschmayer.

How numbers are encoded in JavaScript

A good discussion on HTML5 semantics by Mike Robinson

Let’s Talk about Semantics

Tom Giannattasio discusses techniques used to create the experimental Beercamp site 3D pop-up book using CSS 3D

Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D

Another really nice tutorial from Mary Lou on exchanging and animating words using CSS Animations

Rotating Words with CSS Animations

Terrence Ryan shows how to use CSS Regions but have them degrade gracefully on unsupported browsers

Using CSS Regions as an Enhancement

Frameworks and Libraries

A nice demo of and introduction to Handlebars and why you should consider a templating engine from Raymond Camden

Demo of Handlebars, and why you should consider a templating engine

Decouple Backbone modules to communicate with each other without referencing one another by Eric Feminella

Decoupling Backbone Modules

I share a fun demo on how to determine the language of text with JavaScript & cld.js

Determining the Language of Text Using JavaScript and cld.js

James Brown shows how to use Mockjax in testing for simulating ajax responses

Adventures in Mockjax

New and Updated Libraries and Frameworks

n8iv is an object-oriented & functional programming library which extends JavaScript Natives and provides other useful Classes.

n8iv

Etc.

Want to know what Adobe is up to in HTML? Check out the new site.

Adobe & HTML

Adobe's Christian Cantrell built the virtual keyboard from TRON Legacy using web technologies and two iPads.

Building the Keyboard from TRON Legacy with Web Technologies

My interview with Denise Jacobs on CSS3, RWD and her upcoming session at FITC Toronto.

Interview with Denise Jacobs on CSS3, RWD and more.

You have to see these impressive 2D & 3D CSS scroll effects by Hakim El Hattab.

CSS Scroll Effects