21. May 2016

Extract dominant image color and apply it to its parent with Adaptive Backgrounds

A simple jQuery plugin to extract the dominant color of an image and apply it to the background of its parent element.

Github / Demo

21. May 2016

Flexbox Patterns … components build to flex

And another website dealing with Flexbox patterns.

“Flexbox is awesome, but it introduces many new concepts that can make it difficult to use. These interactive examples will show you practical ways to use it to build UI components. They start out simple and get more complex near the end. You can start using these patterns in your own code right away, though I recommend you apply accessibility best practices to the markup (like using semantic HTML5 elements).”

Check it out / Github

21. May 2016

Solving problems with Flexbox … its not dealing with world hunger or peace

Solved by Flexbox is not framework, but a website that showcases how Flexbox makes many CSS hacks obsolete.

“This site is not another CSS framework. Instead, its purpose is to showcase problems once hard or impossible to solve with CSS alone, now made trivially easy with Flexbox. And with the recent release of Internet Explorer 11 and Safari 6.1, the latest Flexbox spec is now supported in every modern browser.”

Check it out

21. May 2016

Time to start flexing with … BULMA

Flexbox is here to stay and its time to start using it. Flexbox has more than 95% support globally, which matches support for calc and viewport units. Bootstrap 4 will be supporting it and my new website will be Flexbox based as well :)

Oh and if you need older browser support … use Flexibility.

Bulma is a modern CSS framework based on Flexbox. It provides a nice set of core functionality and almost every kind component you might need to build a quick skeleton for your project.

Bulma

19. May 2016

More than 10 Material Design Resources

I am starting a small list of Material Design resources. If you have anything to share, let me know in the comments.

ICONS

Material Design icons by Google – google.github.io/material-design-icons
Material Design Icons – materialdesignicons.com

FRAMEWORK

PURE CSS

UI

Material UI Colors

JAVASCRIPT

Enjoy coding …

14. May 2016

Fine UI inspiration at Code My UI

Code My UI provides handpicked code snippets, you can use in your own web projects. You can find website design inspiration, plus some code samples.

Code My UI

14. May 2016

Searching for a Navigation Solution … check NavNav

NavNav provides a ton of CSS, jQuery, and JavaScript responsive navigation examples, demos, and tutorials from all over the web.

NavNav

14. May 2016

metisMenu … a jQuery menu plugin

metisMenu offers a lot of options to tweak layout and usage. The plugin provides options for

Vertical menus
Folder Views
Hover Menus

GitHub / WordPress Version

14. May 2016

Options to detect when a @font-face has been loaded

OPTION 1

Use the CSS font loading API. Not supported in all browsers yet (MDN, W3C). You can call document.fonts to get a FontFaceSet object.

check(fontSpec) – returns whether all fonts in the given font list have been loaded and are available. The fontSpec uses the CSS shorthand syntax for fonts.
Example: document.fonts.check('bold 16px Roboto'); // true or false
document.fonts.ready – returns a Promise indicating that font loading and layout operations are done.

alert('Roboto loaded? ' + document.fonts.check('1em Roboto'));  // false

document.fonts.ready.then(function () {
  alert('All fonts in use by visible text have loaded.');
   alert('Roboto loaded? ' + document.fonts.check('1em Roboto'));  // true
});

document.fonts.onloadingdone = function (fontFaceSetEvent) {
   alert('onloadingdone we have ' + fontFaceSetEvent.fontfaces.length + ' font faces loaded');
};

alert('Roboto loaded? ' + document.fonts.check('1em Roboto')); // false

document.fonts.ready.then(function () {

alert('All fonts in use by visible text have loaded.');

alert('Roboto loaded? ' + document.fonts.check('1em Roboto')); // true

});

document.fonts.onloadingdone = function (fontFaceSetEvent) {

alert('onloadingdone we have ' + fontFaceSetEvent.fontfaces.length + ' font faces loaded');

};

OPTION 2

Use Font Face Observer – its a small @font-face loader and monitor compatible with any web font service. It will monitor when a web font is applied to the page and notify you. It does not limit you in any way in where, when, or how you load your web fonts. Unlike the Web Font Loader Font Face Observer uses scroll events to detect font loads efficiently and with minimum overhead.

var font = new FontFaceObserver('My Family', {
  weight: 400
});

font.load().then(function () {
  console.log('Font is available');
}, function () {
  console.log('Font is not available');
});

var font = new FontFaceObserver('My Family', {

weight: 400

});

font.load().then(function () {

console.log('Font is available');

}, function () {

console.log('Font is not available');

});

GitHub

OPTION 3

Use jQuery-FontSpy.js, works by checking the change in width of a string.

fontSpy('My Icons', {
  glyphs: '\ue81a\ue82d\ue823',
  success: function() {
    //alert("My Icons loaded successfully");
  },
  failure: function() {
    //alert("My Icons failed to load");
  }
});

fontSpy('My Icons', {

glyphs: '\ue81a\ue82d\ue823',

success: function() {

//alert("My Icons loaded successfully");

failure: function() {

//alert("My Icons failed to load");

}

});

GitHub

OPTION 4

Use Webfont Loader, if loading fonts from Typekit , Fonts.com, Google, Fontdeck or custom location.

This introduces the following events:

loading – This event is triggered when all fonts have been requested.
active – This event is triggered when the fonts have rendered.
inactive – This event is triggered when the browser does not support linked fonts or if none of the fonts could be loaded.
fontloading – This event is triggered once for each font that’s loaded.
fontactive – This event is triggered once for each font that renders.
fontinactive – This event is triggered if the font can’t be loaded.

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1.6.16/webfont.js"></script>
<script>
  WebFont.load({
    google: {
      families: ['Droid Sans', 'Droid Serif']
    }
  });
</script>

WebFont.load({

google: {

families: ['Droid Sans', 'Droid Serif']

}

});

</script>

GitHub

Enjoy coding …

5. May 2016

BackgroundCheck – Automatically switch to a darker or a lighter version of an element

BackgroundCheck automatically switches to a darker or a lighter version of an element depending on the brightness of images behind it.

Pretty amazing and useful, when doing long one-pagers with switching section backgrounds and navigation elements hovering above them.

p.background--light {
  color: black;
}

p.background--dark {
  color: white;
}

p.background--complex {
  color: gray;
}

p.background--light {

color: black;

}

p.background--dark {

color: white;

}

p.background--complex {

color: gray;

}

// Check all elements with a .target class against all images on a page
BackgroundCheck.init({
  targets: '.target'
});

// Specific images
BackgroundCheck.init({
  targets: '.target',
  images: '.thumbnails'
});

// Check all elements with a .target class against all images on a page

BackgroundCheck.init({

targets: '.target'

});

// Specific images

BackgroundCheck.init({

targets: '.target',

images: '.thumbnails'

});

BackgroundCheck