14. May 2016

Map that DOM element with a Minimap

Minimap provides a preview of a full webpage or its DOM element. All with flexible positioning and navigation support.

//Desired dom element
var previewBody = $('body').minimap();

1 2	//Desired dom element var previewBody = $('body').minimap();

GitHub

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

URL mutation … sounds serious … library

“URI.js is a javascript library for working with URLs. It offers a “jQuery-style” API (Fluent Interface, Method Chaining) to read and write all regular components and a number of convenience methods like .directory() and .authority().

URI.js offers simple, yet powerful ways of working with query string, has a number of URI-normalization functions and converts relative/absolute paths.”

// mutating URLs
URI("http://example.org/foo.html?hello=world")
    .username("rodneyrehm") 
        // -> http://rodneyrehm@example.org/foo.html?hello=world
    .username("") 
        // -> http://example.org/foo.html?hello=world
    .directory("bar")
        // -> http://example.org/bar/foo.html?hello=world
    .suffix("xml")    
        // -> http://example.org/bar/foo.xml?hello=world
    .hash("hackernews")
        // -> http://example.org/bar/foo.xml?hello=world#hackernews
    .fragment("")
        // -> http://example.org/bar/foo.xml?hello=world
    .search("") // alias of .query()
        // -> http://example.org/bar/foo.xml
    .tld("com")
        // -> http://example.com/bar/foo.xml
    .search({ foo: "bar", hello: ["world", "mars"] });
        // -> http://example.com/bar/foo.xml?foo=bar&hello=world&hello=mars

// mutating URLs

URI("http://example.org/foo.html?hello=world")

.username("rodneyrehm")

// -> http://rodneyrehm@example.org/foo.html?hello=world

.username("")

// -> http://example.org/foo.html?hello=world

.directory("bar")

// -> http://example.org/bar/foo.html?hello=world

.suffix("xml")

// -> http://example.org/bar/foo.xml?hello=world

.hash("hackernews")

// -> http://example.org/bar/foo.xml?hello=world#hackernews

.fragment("")

// -> http://example.org/bar/foo.xml?hello=world

.search("") // alias of .query()

// -> http://example.org/bar/foo.xml

.tld("com")

// -> http://example.com/bar/foo.xml

.search({ foo: "bar", hello: ["world", "mars"] });

// -> http://example.com/bar/foo.xml?foo=bar&hello=world&hello=mars

URI("?hello=world")
    .addSearch("hello", "mars")
        // -> ?hello=world&hello=mars
    .addSearch({ foo: ["bar", "baz"] })
        // -> ?hello=world&hello=mars&foo=bar&foo=baz
    .removeSearch("hello", "mars")
        // -> ?hello=world&foo=bar&foo=baz
    .removeSearch("foo")
        // -> ?hello=world

URI("?hello=world")

.addSearch("hello", "mars")

// -> ?hello=world&hello=mars

.addSearch({ foo: ["bar", "baz"] })

// -> ?hello=world&hello=mars&foo=bar&foo=baz

.removeSearch("hello", "mars")

// -> ?hello=world&foo=bar&foo=baz

.removeSearch("foo")

// -> ?hello=world

GitHub

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

Use Markdown for your emails

Markdown Here is an extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird that allows you to write email in Markdown.

“With it, you can write email in Markdown, and then click a button (or context menu item, or use a hotkey) to render the email into good-looking, fully formatted text (HTML, technically).”

Markdown Here

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

What is a @font-face?

@font-face is a CSS at-rule used to define custom fonts for use on web pages. It allows web designers and developers to specify downloadable fonts that can be used to render text on their websites, regardless of whether the font is installed on the user’s device.

What is the FOUT, FOIT or FOFT?

There are three common issues regarding text rendering on browsers. And the goal always is to reduce or at least minimize the text reflow.

What the FOUT!

FOUT stands for “Flash of Unstyled Text.” It’s a phenomenon that occurs when using web fonts in CSS. When a web page is loading, the browser might initially render text using a fallback font while waiting for the web font to download and apply. This results in a momentary flash where the text appears in the fallback font before switching to the desired web font.

FOUT can be visually disruptive, especially if the fallback font differs significantly from the intended web font in terms of style or size. To mitigate FOUT, web developers often use techniques such as font loading strategies (like using the font-display property in CSS) or server-side rendering to ensure that the desired web font is loaded and applied as quickly as possible to minimize or eliminate the flash of unstyled text.

What the FOIT!

FOIT stands for “Flash of Invisible Text.” It’s another phenomenon related to web fonts in CSS. Unlike FOUT, where fallback text is briefly visible before the web font loads, FOIT occurs when the browser hides text until the web font is fully loaded and ready to be applied.

When FOIT happens, the text remains invisible until the browser has downloaded the web font. This can result in a delay in displaying text content on the webpage, which might lead to a poor user experience.

To address FOIT, web developers sometimes use techniques such as font loading strategies (like preloading fonts or using the font-display property) to ensure that text content remains visible while waiting for web fonts to load. These techniques aim to balance the trade-off between the performance benefits of font loading and the user experience of text visibility.

What the FOFT!

“FOFT” stands for “Flash of Faux Text.” This term describes a phenomenon similar to FOUT (Flash of Unstyled Text) but specifically occurs when using synthetic fonts, such as system fonts or web-safe fonts, instead of custom web fonts.

In FOFT, when a web page is loading, the browser may initially render text using a generic font (like Arial or Times New Roman) before switching to the specified font once it has fully loaded. This switch can result in a brief flash where the text appears in the generic font before being replaced with the intended font, causing a disruption in the visual appearance of the text.

To mitigate FOFT, developers can employ similar techniques used to address FOUT, such as optimizing font loading strategies or utilizing font preloading techniques to ensure a smoother transition from the generic font to the specified font. Additionally, choosing system fonts or web-safe fonts that closely resemble the desired custom font can help reduce the visibility of FOFT.

DETECT WHEN FONTS ARE 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 …

6. May 2016

Cropper – A simple image cropping plugin

touch (mobile)
zooming
rotating
scaling (flipping)
multiple croppers
crop on a canvas
crop image in the browser by canvas
translate Exif Orientation information
Cross-browser support

Cropper.js / jQuery Version

6. May 2016

Interact.js – Drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping

inertia and snapping
multiple interactions
cross browser and device, supporting the desktop and mobile versions of Chrome, Firefox and Opera
interaction with SVG elements
being lightweight and standalone (not yet another jQuery plugin)
not modifying the DOM except to support IE8 and to change the cursor (but you can disable that)

GitHub

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