Taking You Back To The 90′s
No doubt this is great advertising, but can Microsoft really live up it? Even if they can’t this is still a video worth watching.
Brackets. An Open Source Code Editor by Adobe
Open Source and Adobe in the same sentence? I was baffled when I first heard about Brackets and who was behind it. Brackets is an open-source code editor built with the web for the web. It is literally built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. So not only can you code in Brackets, you can also code on the application it self.
Brackets uses a third party project called CodeMirror for laying out text documents, representing code, editing and syntax highlighting. Twitter Bootstrap framework is also part of Brackets as well as the LESS CSS preprocessor. To evaluate the quality of it’s code Brackets uses one of the most popular JavaScript static analysis tools JSLint.
Brackets is still in the works and has a ways to go. The idea behind the whole project and the fact that Adobe is keeping this an open source project is exciting. However, I won’t be leaving Coda anytime soon. Since Panic came through and fixed all of Coda2′s bugs I couldn’t be happier.
More on Brackets:
An Overview of Brackets’ Code Architecture
Brackets wiki
Brackets via GitHub
The Future Is Bright!
This morning I was reading an article on Smashing Magazine that ended with a positive note which stuck with me. Finding Nemo may also have something to do with it since it is my favorite animated movie of all time.
This was taken directly from the article.
When you try to get people excited about the Web, remember to point out the good things about it. We are far too good at complaining openly about things that are broken, while failing to share our excitement. Let’s do that more.
Finding Nemo was never advertised like this:
“A movie in which a wife and all but one child in a family are brutally murdered. The last child gets kidnapped, and the father undertakes a desperate search to find it, his only ally being a mentally challenged woman.”
Teach your forms some manners
Styling form elements can be daunting at times. You get it looking good in one browser only to find it completely different in another. That’s why I’m sharing this recent find. It’s called Formalize (built by Nathan Smith) and it teaches your forms manners. It’s super easy to implement and won’t bog down your bandwidth at 1.9 bytes. Just include formalize.css, your JS library of choice, and the *.formalize.js file in the <head>. That’s it. From here on out your forms will look seamless across all browsers and operating systems.
Here is an example from the Formalize website which shows a few form elements with out Formalize and then with Formalize.
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