Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

jQuery.swatches is a free to use that turns a one-line div into a sweet color swatch. You can customize the class as you want. Using different classes would allow you to render groups of swatches at individual times by calling swatchify() on a different selector.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://maxmackie.com/jquery.swatches/
License: MIT License

HTML5 Up! is a small showcase of the free responsive HTML5 + CSS3 site templates that AJ put together while developing 5grid. All of them are clean, minimal, fully responsive site templates built on HTML5 and CSS3. They are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

Requirements: Skel.js Framework
Demo: http://html5up.net/
License: Creative Commons License

This article recently appeared on the Atari Arcade Developer Center, a collaboration by the teams at gskinner.com , Atari and Internet Explorer.

The Atari Arcade: a true game portal showcasing what’s possible with web standards like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Slick graphics, fast, multi-player gameplay, and platform agnostic. Initially only targeting desktop and tablet-based browsers, we’ve now endeavored to bring the arcade to mobile.

Choosing a Target

By limiting to desktops and tablets in the first release, we narrowed our scope considerably, and were able to provide a semi-responsive layout with a single game size. Our reach included most standard resolution monitors, plus tablet form-factors like Surface and iPad.

But we quickly learned that we were missing something by not targeting the huge number of users on mobile devices. That is, a vast market that now accounts for about 12% of all global internet traffic, spanning all kinds of dimensions, resolutions, and processors. Our next task was identifying an approach to bring the arcade to the mobile web. We wanted to support a variety of resolutions, including higher DPIs in new devices like Windows Phone 8 and iPhone 5.

This article discusses the goals to mobilize the arcade, as well as some approaches, the issues we encountered, and some tips and tricks where we found value.

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Easy responsive tabs is a lightweight jQuery plugin which optimizes normal horizontal or vertical tabs to accordion on multi devices like: web, tablets, Mobile (IPad & IPhone). This plugin adapts the screen size and changes its form accordingly.

It supports Horizontal / Vertical Tabs to Accordion. Tabs and accordion are created entirely with jQuery. It supports multiple sets of tabs on same page. It has been tested on IE7+, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera. It is released under MIT License.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://webtrendset.com/demo/easy-responsive-tabs/Index.html
License: MIT License

Editr is a HTML, CSS and JavaScript playground that you can host on your server. it is based on ACE Editor. It’s super easy to setup. It supports multiple instances on one page. Configurations are available via JS object or HTML attributes. Editr is licensed under MIT License.

Requirements: JavaScript Framework
Demo: http://idered.pl/editr/
License: MIT License

Twitter has adopted a Facebook Timeline-like cover display for main profile pages, opening up a new avenue for visual creativity. Ranked as one of the ten most-visited websites and three most used social networks, twitter is definitely changing the face of social media by actively engaging with the targeted audience.

TwitrCovers collects the best Twitter Covers around the world. There are different categories you can choose from, for example, Abstract, Art, Nature, Photos, Places and etc. Here we have selected the following 35 Creative Twitter Covers for Web Designers.

Paint Brain

Smoking Pipe

Programming Code

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Two.js is a two-dimensional drawing api geared towards modern web browsers. It is renderer agnostic enabling the same api to draw in multiple contexts: svg, canvas, and webgl. Two.js aims to make the creation and animation of flat shapes easier and more concise.

Two.js has a built in animation loop. It is simple in nature and can be automated or paired with another animation library. Two.js features a Scalable Vector Graphics Interpreter. This means developers and designers alike can create SVG elements in commercial applications like Adobe Illustrator and bring them into your two.js scene.

Requirements: JavaScript Framework
Demo: http://jonobr1.github.io/two.js/
License: License Free

Transit is a super-smooth CSS transitions & transformations for jQuery. You can make transition on any CSS property. They will happen much smoother than if you were to use jQuery’s default .animate(). You can easily translate, rotate, scale, skew and etc.

Transit degrades older browsers by simply not doing the transformations (rotate, scale, etc) while still doing standard CSS (opacity, marginLeft, etc) without any animation. Delays and durations will be ignored. It is released under MIT License.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://ricostacruz.com/jquery.transit/
License: MIT License

When I started out on this app I was only really just interested in seeing if the web platform had really evolved to a point where an app like the hugely popular Instagram app could be built using just HTML, JavaScript and CSS. As it turns out we can in fact do exactly that. This article walks you through the technologies that make this possible and shows how it is entirely feasible today to build interoperable web applications that provide a great user experience no matter what brand of browser the user is running.

If you happen to be one of the two or so people who have not heard about Instagram then you might be pleased to hear that it is a hugely popular photo sharing and social networking service that allows you to take pictures, apply interesting digital filters on them and share them with the world to see. The service got so popular that it was acquired by Facebook for a bag full of cash and stock in April of 2012.

InstaFuzz is the name of the app I put together and while I don’t expect to be acquired by Facebook or anybody else for a billion green it does however make the case that an app such as this one can be built using only standards compliant web technologies such as Canvas, File API, Drag/Drop, Web Workers, ES5 and CSS3 andstill manage to runwell on modern browsers such as Internet Explorer 10,Google Chrome and Firefox. And you could easily use the code to build a Windows Store app too.

About the app

If you’d like to take a look at the app, then here’s where it is hosted at:

http://blogorama.nerdworks.in/arbit/InstaFuzz/

As soon as you load it up, you’re presented with a screen that looks like this:

The idea is that you can load up a photograph into the app either by clicking on the big red “Add” button on the bottom left hand corner or drag and drop an image file into the blackish/blue area on the right. Once you do that you get something that looks like this: Read the rest of this entry »