31. May 2016

Plyr.io – A simple, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player

A simple, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player.

Accessible – full support for VTT captions and screen readers
Lightweight – under 10KB minified and gzipped
Customisable – make the player look how you want with the markup you want
Semantic – uses the right elements. <input type="range"> for volume and <progress> for progress and well,<button>s for buttons. There’s no <span> or <a href="#"> button hacks
Responsive – as you’d expect these days
HTML Video & Audio – support for both formats
Embedded Video – support for YouTube and Vimeo video playback
API – toggle playback, volume, seeking, and more
Universal events – no messing around with Vimeo and YouTube APIs, all events are universal across formats
Fullscreen – supports native fullscreen with fallback to “full window” modes
i18n support – support for internationalization of controls
No dependencies – written in “vanilla” JavaScript, no jQuery required
SASS and LESS provided – If you like these over plain CSS

GitHub

25. May 2016

Responsive Emails with MJML

MJML is a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email. Its semantic syntax makes it easy and straightforward and its rich standard components library speeds up your development time and lightens your email codebase. MJML’s open-source engine generates high quality responsive HTML compliant with best practices.

<mjml>
  <mj-body>
    <mj-container>
      <mj-section>
        <mj-column>

          <mj-image width="100" src="/assets/img/logo-small.png"></mj-image>

          <mj-divider border-color="#F45E43"></mj-divider>

          <mj-text font-size="20px" color="#F45E43" font-family="helvetica">Hello World</mj-text>

        </mj-column>
      </mj-section>
    </mj-container>
  </mj-body>
</mjml>

<mjml>

<mj-body>

<mj-container>

<mj-section>

<mj-column>

<mj-image width="100" src="/assets/img/logo-small.png"></mj-image>

<mj-divider border-color="#F45E43"></mj-divider>

<mj-text font-size="20px" color="#F45E43" font-family="helvetica">Hello World</mj-text>

</mj-column>

</mj-section>

</mj-container>

</mj-body>

</mjml>

mjml

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

Tweene the animation proxy

It is an animation proxy: used as a wrapper of your chosen library, it may allow you to do more and better and it makes easy to switch from one library to another any time you want. Currently it can work together with GSAP, Velocity.js, Transit (CSS transitions) or jQuery.

One to rule them all
Timeline support for all
Support for play(), pause(), resume(), reverse() and restart()
To, From and FromTo tweens, loops and infinite loops, yoyo effect, delay and loops delay, callbacks and directional callbacks, full set of events

As a big velocity fan, Tweene provides some nice unique additional options and the timeline feature pushes things to new levels ;)

Tweene

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

4. May 2016

Splitter / Split Pane / Docker options

SPLIT PANES / DOCKER allow you to display multiple areas, either side by side or one on top of each other. Nested layouts are often part of it. By dragging a divider that appears between the areas, the user can specify how much of the total width / height goes to each area.

I have been building a backend interface in the past weeks, that forced me to look into ways to organize the workspace more efficiently . I could code my own splitter, but is not a priority right now and makes no sense to always reinvent the wheel :)

Here some of the options out there…

Pure jQuery UI

This uses the jQuery UI draggable component and provides limited options :)

 $('.splitter').draggable({
    axis: 'x',
    containment: '#content',
    distance: 0,
    drag: function(event, ui) {
      var width = $('#content').width();
      $('#content .leftpane').css({ width: ui.position.left + 'px' });
      $('#content .rightpane').css({
        left: ui.position.left + 1 + 'px',
        width: (width - ui.position.left + 1) + 'px'
      });
    },
    refreshPositions: true,
    scroll: false
  });

$('.splitter').draggable({

axis: 'x',

containment: '#content',

distance: 0,

drag: function(event, ui) {

var width = $('#content').width();

$('#content .leftpane').css({ width: ui.position.left + 'px' });

$('#content .rightpane').css({

left: ui.position.left + 1 + 'px',

width: (width - ui.position.left + 1) + 'px'

});

refreshPositions: true,

scroll: false

});

jQuery UI

Layout, has not been updated for a long time, but still provides a huge amount of options and methods to handle almost anything. Version 2.0 was announced, but never showed up. Google Groups / GitHub / Documentation
ProPanelLayout (Commercial)

jQuery Plugins

Pure Jasvascript

Split.js (Split Pane)
Golden Layout (Docker)
Dock Spawn (Docker)

CSS only

CSS3 Splitview

Enjoy coding …

3. May 2016

Self-hosted web IRC client … Shout / The Lounge

Node.js
Always connected
Responsive interface
Cross Platform
Multiple user accounts

Shout / The Lounge

30. April 2016

Flexible JavaScript charting with Canvas using Chart.js

Visualize your data in 8 different ways; each of them animated and customizable.
Great rendering performance across all modern browsers (IE9+)
Redraws charts on window resize for perfect scale granularity.

<canvas id="myChart" width="400" height="400"></canvas>

1	<canvas id="myChart" width="400" height="400"></canvas>

// Any of the following formats may be used
var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart");
var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart").getContext("2d");
var ctx = $("#myChart");

// Any of the following formats may be used

var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart");

var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart").getContext("2d");

var ctx = $("#myChart");

<canvas id="myChart" width="400" height="400"></canvas>
<script>
var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart");
var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {
    type: 'bar',
    data: {
        labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],
        datasets: [{
            label: '# of Votes',
            data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3]
        }]
    },
    options: {
        scales: {
            yAxes: [{
                ticks: {
                    beginAtZero:true
                }
            }]
        }
    }
});
</script>

var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart");

var myChart = new Chart(ctx, {

type: 'bar',

data: {

labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"],

datasets: [{

label: '# of Votes',

data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3]

}]

options: {

scales: {

yAxes: [{

ticks: {

beginAtZero:true

}

}]

}

});

</script>

GitHub

18. April 2016

Be amazed by the Responsive Filemanager with Adobe Aviary integration

“Responsive FileManager is a free open-source file manager and image manager made with jQuery, CSS3, PHP and HTML5 that offers a nice and elegant way to upload and insert files, images and videos.
You can use it as external plugin for TinyMCE, CKEditor and CLEditor or as a stand-alone file manager to manage and select files.”

USAGE WITH TINYMCE

tinymce.init({
    selector: "textarea",theme: "modern",width: 680,height: 300,
    plugins: [
         "advlist autolink link image lists charmap print preview hr anchor pagebreak",
         "searchreplace wordcount visualblocks visualchars insertdatetime media nonbreaking",
         "table contextmenu directionality emoticons paste textcolor responsivefilemanager code"
   ],
   toolbar1: "undo redo | bold italic underline | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent | styleselect",
   toolbar2: "| responsivefilemanager | link unlink anchor | image media | forecolor backcolor  | print preview code ",
   image_advtab: true ,
   
   external_filemanager_path:"/filemanager/",
   filemanager_title:"Responsive Filemanager" ,
   external_plugins: { "filemanager" : "/filemanager/plugin.min.js"}
 });

tinymce.init({

selector: "textarea",theme: "modern",width: 680,height: 300,

plugins: [

"advlist autolink link image lists charmap print preview hr anchor pagebreak",

"searchreplace wordcount visualblocks visualchars insertdatetime media nonbreaking",

"table contextmenu directionality emoticons paste textcolor responsivefilemanager code"

toolbar1: "undo redo | bold italic underline | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent | styleselect",

image_advtab: true ,

external_filemanager_path:"/filemanager/",

filemanager_title:"Responsive Filemanager" ,

external_plugins: { "filemanager" : "/filemanager/plugin.min.js"}

});

Responsive filemanager / GitHub