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HTML attributes vs DOM properties

By Chris Coyier on

Speaking of Jake, his recent article HTML attributes vs DOM properties is a good one for all y’all on that journey to senior developer. I could imagine asking this in an interview. I’d say you should straight up know this is the case and learn over time the more nuanced stuff like which properties reflect […]

Faces.js and Playing with Densely Packed Grids

By Chris Coyier on

I only just recently saw Faces.js, a library for producing controllable cartoony avatars. It was launched in 2012, so I’m a little late to the party. It produces faces (busts, really) randomly, or with certain parameters locked to what you want. I think that’s a really cool idea, and if you needed this kind of […]

Proposal for Signals

By Chris Coyier on

The JavaScript architectural pattern of “signals” has really had a moment in the last year. There are lots of frameworks that have adopted it as the predominant way to declare and respond to variables that change across componentry. Web standards bodies, at their best, notice things like this and step in to help bring them […]

DOM to PNG Directly in the Browser

By Chris Coyier on

You could design something on the web then take a screenshot of it. That is, in a basic sense, converting DOM to PNG. But a screenshot is rather manual and finicky. If you had to do this over and over, or you needed a very exact size (like a social media card), you can actually […]

Eloquent JavaScript (4th edition)

By Chris Coyier on

An awful lot of JavaScript developers I know speak of Eloquent JavaScript as a very formative book for them in their path toward becoming the developer they are today. It’s certainly on my bookshelf. Eloquent JavaScript is now in it’s 4th edition, and available free online. Pretty sweet complementary learning resource right there, goes nicely […]