Una’s [Instagram filters in CSS}(https://github.com/una/CSSgram) are great, but the browser support for CSS filters isn’t as good as, say, the browser support for canvas. Here’s a clever bit of scripting to polyfill filters using canvas.
A clever performance trick for images:
- Reduce image contrast using a linear transform function (Photoshop can do this)
- Apply a contrast filter in CSS to the image to make up for the contrast removal
A step-by-step guide to wrapping up a self-contained bit of functionality (a camera, in this case) into a web component.
Mind you, it would be nice if there were some thought given to fallbacks, like say:
<simple-camera>
<input type="file" accept="image/*">
</simple-camera>
Browser implementations of Sol LeWitt’s conceptual and minimal art, many of which only exist as instructions like this:
Vertical lines, not straight, not touching, covering the wall evenly.
A social network for snippets of JavaScript effects in canvas, written in 140 characters or fewer. Impressive!
Refresh to get a new randomly generated constellation.
A lovely bit of creative JS from Emily
Web browsers provide you with great features for free. Why would you choose to use tools that stop you taking advantage of that?
In which I find a tagline for Web Day Out and a tagline for React.
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HTML’s new `command` attribute on the `button` element could be a game-changer.