Getting to Know Custom CSS Properties

Lawrence Chabela Articles, CSS & HTML, Development Technologies & Tools 1 Comment

CSS custom properties are very powerful way for you to spice up your style sheets. They are a way to separate JavaScript behavior and styling, as shown in the ability to set information in the JavaScript for the CSS to use for its styling.

Even if you’re using a preprocessor for your CSS, there is still a place for CSS custom properties to be directly embedded in your CSS.

In this blog: we introduce custom CSS properties, show why you want to use them, how to define them, and how to change them with and without JavaScript.

data sanitization

Sanitize: Good for Beer, Good for Data

Jeremy Gard Articles, Databases, Design, JavaScript, Programming Leave a Comment

When it comes to brewing, one of the most critical considerations is sanitization. The same fact can be said for development. In brewing you can introduce unintended flavors, create a lesser end product, or completely ruin your hard work. With development, you can introduce inaccuracies or bad data, errors can be caused or exposed to attack, and security holes can be created.

With best practices in sanitization, we can all enjoy better applications and better beer. In this blog, I discuss the importance of data sanitization in development (with tips for success), with parallels to sanitization in brewing.

Keyhole Releases UI Design Tool MockOla For Free, Public Use

Lauren Fournier Bogner Articles, Company News, Design, Keyhole Creations Leave a Comment

Attention: This article was published over 10 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.The Keyhole Software team is excited to announce the standalone release of MockOla for free, public use. MockOla is a rapid designย tool to easily …

Fabric.JS

Reinforcing The HTML5 Canvas With Fabric.js

Lou Mauget Articles, CSS & HTML, Design, Development Technologies & Tools Leave a Comment

Attention: This article was published over 10 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.This world is but a canvas to our imagination. -Henry David Thoreau Dynamic Web Graphics The past… Applets In the previous millennium, HTML markup …

Sass

Structuring CSS Selectors With Sass Mixins

Lawrence Chabela Articles, CSS & HTML, Development Technologies & Tools, Single-Page Application 2 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 10 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.CSS naming can be one of the most challenging things in creating large-scale style systems in an application. There have been a lot of …