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Re:Google’s look, evolved on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @02:56PM (#10154833)
I find those posts more like Ads within the site. They all seem to be Y Combinator sponsored jobs. It's in no way different than how twitter, facebook and instagram post ads in between content.
Re:Ask HN: Front-end “design patterns”? on Saturday March 07, 2015 @02:59PM (#9162904)
For CSS architecture I thought SMACSS [https://smacss.com/] by Jonathan Snook has really good design patterns that have been proven to be good throughout his many projects.
Re:UX Check on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:37PM (#8881658)
I'm curious to know how the author managed to take a screenshot of the site? I know there were methods to actually recreate the DOM via some 3rd party library. Not sure if things have changed with HTML5 or others means of doing it.
Re:Ycombinatoe.com on Monday January 12, 2015 @10:37AM (#8874406)
I know certain websites like google buy domain names which can easily be misspelled and redirect them back to google.com. For typos like gogle.com, or adding extra 'o' gooogle.com
I agree this does look sweet, however this is not a replacement for alert. window.alert() is a blocking function, it prevents further code to be interpreted while the alert or prompt is open.
Re:Ask HN: SCSS/Sass vs. LESS on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @10:45AM (#8173116)
I think the big reason people prefer SASS is because of Compass - http://compass-style.org/
Re:How to learn new things using side projects on Friday June 13, 2014 @03:36PM (#7890461)
Well, it's also not a simple as you describe. You might have objects within the canvas that might also need to be resized, images, text, bg images, bounding borders, etc. All these things will need to be taken into consideration when being scaled or resized.
Re:How to learn new things using side projects on Friday June 13, 2014 @11:12AM (#7889200)
I was eager to learn about HTML5 Canvas, so I created a small project and learned a great deal while developing a lightweight canvas library, which hopefully others will also find helpful. https://github.com/vladakilov/imagine
I've been working on something similar, it's a lightweight HTML5 Canvas library, easily add/remove objects on the canvas. It also has event handling for the objects. http://vladakilov.github.io/imagine/
Re:Sprite Cow – Generate CSS for sprite sheets on Monday December 02, 2013 @02:16PM (#6835780)
For those of you who want a more developer friendly way of working with sprites, I would like to introduce you to Compass (http://compass-style.org/help/tutorials/spriting/) Spriting. Along with using SASS, it will make creating and maintaining sprites a lot easier.
Re:Sergey Brin, Please Pick up your Paychecks on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @04:06PM (#5247045)
New York state has $12 Billion in unclaimed money! None of it belongs to me though. http://www.osc.state.ny.us/ouf/index.htm
Re:Lorem Pixel on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @05:11PM (#4907179)
Re:Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide on Monday November 05, 2012 @03:20PM (#4745573)
I'll agree with many of the guidelines, but some are just personal taste. For instance, I like to indent my JS with 4 spaces and so does Douglas Crockford (http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html)
Re:How 37 Popular Sites Used to Look on Monday September 10, 2012 @04:39PM (#4502120)
Sony looked pretty good for 1996 compared to the other big name sites.
Re:HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @12:59PM (#4261647)
I was looking for something like this a while back and found a useful firefox plugin called Poster (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/poster/). It's useful for testing a RESTful api without creating any front-end code to handle the requests. Or anything you can do with cURL just simpler.
Re:Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:44PM (#2901241)
Seems like a good app to get beginners started with learning to code. What stack is this built on? What language are you teaching with, is it javascript?
Re:Google Please Hire Me on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @12:20PM (#2841730)
He reminds me of Stephen Colbert.
Re:Book Review-- HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim on Friday December 10, 2010 @12:19AM (#1990731)
There is also a free online book http://diveintohtml5.org - Dive Into HTML5 also by Mark Pilgrim.
Re:New York Times - Chrome version on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @12:35PM (#1983765)
It's not just for the chrome browser because it's built on HTML5 and JavaScript and can be used on any modern browser. I'm currently using firefox to view this "app" which is just a regular site, well it's actually a very clean & impressive design and great UI features. Some of the so-called apps in the chrome store are merely bookmarked links that go directly to the page, for instance the gmail "app". I'm having a really hard time to accept these as "apps"
This is a great deal! I'm buying this for the included WooThemes wordpress themes. I've used them before, their themes are well coded and are constantly being updated.