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Lazy-load your images with Coloor

posted in JavaScript on 2016-04-03   image src coloor img var images base64 canvas size function

Last week I landed on an article by Manuel Wieser called Dominant Colors for Lazy-Loading Images and I found the topic really interesting. It’s about lazy-loading of images. Something that Medium is using.

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CSS variables are here for ages

posted in CSS3 on 2014-08-13   div content font size color container css width div class footer variables

Every front-end developer that starts reading about CSS preprocessors thinks “Oh, finally variables in CSS". Indeed, the ability to create and use variables in CSS makes our code much more flexible. However, I think that there is no need to use a preprocessor to create flexible stylesheets.

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SASS: @content directive is a wonderful thing

posted in CSS3 on 2013-08-06   button font size 20px color mixin content border font size 30px 20px text decoration size 20px text block font size display block font

I just started using SASS and I love it. A bunch of cool features, which will help me to improve my CSS coding. @content directive is one of them.

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CSS Challenge #1: expand and center an image

posted in CSS3 on 2013-08-01   image background wrapper width div css center background size cover 200px overflow hidden height 200px overflow

That's first of (I hope) many posts with such an idea. Problems solved with pure CSS. No JavaScript.

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Web Highlights #1

posted in HTML5 on 2013-04-05   http things tablets viewport sizes front end architecture pixel mobiles make

Everyday I'm reading or watching something which I find helpful. Normally I bookmark those things, but at the end I have dozen of folders and subfolders which I never check. So, I decided to make such blog post where I'll share valuable things in the net.

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