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Remotely debugging Opera for Android
By Bruce Lawson · Tuesday, May 21, 2013 0
Now that Opera for Android is out, you'll sometimes need to debug it, as there are differences in Standards support between Opera and Chrome for Android and Chrome on Android 4+. Because current and future Opera for Android releases are based on Chromium, we can't use the current Opera desktop releases to connect to them (wait for Chromium-based Opera desktop releases for that). So here's how to connect Opera for Android to another Chromium-based desktop browser for remote debugging. Read more…
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Animating flexboxes: the lowdown
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, April 17, 2013 0
In this article, Chris Mills explores what can be achieved by using animations and transitions — along with a little JavaScript — in conjunction with Flexbox. Read more…
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Advanced cross-browser flexbox
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, April 10, 2013 0
The CSS Flexible box module level 3 brings with it a lot of power and some very exciting possibilities for web development, allowing us to put together complex site layouts easily and rapidly, and dispensing with some of the illogical hacks and kludges that we've traditionally used. In this article Chris Mills goes beyond the basics, showing some more interesting uses of flexbox, and how Modernizr can be employed to serve different styles to browsers with differing levels of flexbox support to provide the best level of cross browser support available. Read more…
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Adding Geolocation metadata, with microformats, datasets, microdata and RDFa Lite
By Karl Dubost · Wednesday, January 16, 2013 48
In September 2011, I needed to mark up location data in an HTML document and it became more complicated than I initially thought it would be. I started to think about this topic again recently and explored some possibilities. In this article I will share my findings, looking at how I used microformats, datasets, microdata and RDFa Lite to mark up this data, and discussing what the best option might be. Read more…
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Opera's year in Dev Rel 2012
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, December 19, 2012 62
Opera's dev rel team have done a lot this year. To tie things up for 2012, we would like to present our highlights and best publications of 2012; some golden moments for you to read when the vacation gets boring! Read more…
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Raw WebGL 101 — Part 4: Textures
By Erik Möller · Wednesday, December 5, 2012 36
Greetings, WebGL ninjas. in this fourth part of Erik's raw WebGL tutorial series, we will turn our attention to importing textures from an image file into the canvas. Read more…
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RoboHydra: advanced techniques
By Esteban Manchado Velázquez · Wednesday, December 5, 2012 34
This article looks at some advanced RoboHydra techniques, based around uses of the low-level RoboHydra heads (RoboHydraHead objects). Read more…
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Native CSS feature detection via the @supports rule
By Chris Mills · Wednesday, November 21, 2012 24
We have practised feature detection to allow us to provide appropriate code to browsers with differing levels of standards support for a while now, but we've always needed 3rd party libraries to handle it. But not for much longer: The CSS3 Conditional Rules Module Level 3 provides the @supports at-rule and associated JavaScript API, providing a native mechanism for doing CSS feature detection. In this article we'll give you the lowdown on how this rule works, looking at a real example in the process. Read more…