Category: Other Script Languages

Hologram: Free Mac App For a Smooth Start With WebVR

Freelancers that make their money off customer projects have little time for new technologies. With Hologram, you can get a sneak peek at WebVR, without losing entire monthly incomes in the process. Hologram is a native app for macOS and is as such useless for everyone that does their daily work using Windows. Mac user...

Responsive SVG: What’s Possible, and What Isn’t?

Responsive layouts are indispensable in web design. On the one hand, there are ever-shrinking displays on smartphones, and on the other hand, there’s the size increase of desktop displays. Between that, there are phablets, tablets, as well as netbooks, notebooks, and what not. Thanks to CSS, technically optimiz...

Full Control over Grids: Firefox’ New Layout Panel For CSS Grids

Previously, proper grid based layouts were only possible via inconvenient ways. The new CSS grids, which have been available in the newer versions of the popular browsers for a little while now, finally allow for these layouts. In Firefox, at least in the Nightly version, there’s a new layout panel in the inspect...

Hackr.io Compiles Tons of Learning Material for Common Programming Languages

Learners Rejoice. Hackr.io unites 113 different topic areas on its landing page. Among them, you’ll find every more or less common programming language, as well as database technologies, and cloud services. For each of these subjects, the Hackr.io community collects the best learning material the worldwide web ha...

Better Positioning and Transforming With Nested SVG

The creation of SVG graphics is pretty straightforward. If you know HTML, you’ll be able to handle the SVG syntax quickly. However, there are a couple of small, but relevant differences between HTML and SVG regarding the positioning of SVG shapes. These are placed entirely within an SVG drawing space. How Shapes ...

Why You Should Embed SVG Inline

Those working with SVG graphics have multiple options to embed them into an HTML document. Aside from using it as a classic image file via the “<img>” element, SVG can also be implemented via “<object>” or “<iframe>”. The latter two have the advantage that they allo...

PHP7 and WordPress: Can You Already Spark the Turbo? [Infographic]

Since the third of December 2015, the latest version of PHP, carrying the number seven, is available. To remove legacy waste, the developers decided to partially give up on backward compatibility. For WordPress users, this brings up the question whether PHP7 is already usable, and which advantages can come with using i...

PHP7 and WordPress: Can You Already Spark the Turbo? [Infographic]

Since the third of December 2015, the latest version of PHP, carrying the number seven, is available. To remove legacy waste, the developers decided to partially give up on backward compatibility. For WordPress users, this brings up the question whether PHP7 is already usable, and which advantages can come with using i...

Animated SVG with Adobe Animate and Snap.SVG

With Animate CC, Adobe finally sounded the bell to the end of Flash. While the renamed animation program still supports Flash, it has moved its main focus towards HTML5 and WebGL. Now, for each new project, you decide whether you want to create an animation via HTML5 canvas or WebGL. Animated SVGs with Animate CC were ...

SVG in Responsive Webdesign: Pros and Cons

The SVG format has plenty of advantages over other image formats for the web. It’s vector-based, compact, and even editable via plain text editors thanks to the XML syntax. There’s a reason why it’s becoming increasingly more popular, especially with the steadily growing mobile web. Responsive webdesi...