HTML and CSS Tools
HTML Email Boilerplate
This
website and its sample code creates a template of sorts, absent of
design or layout, that will help you avoid some of the major rendering
problems with the most common email clients out there. It also provides
some helpful examples and snippets that will keep your email design
rendering as true-to-form as possible.
Initializr
This tool creates a
customizable template based on HTML5 Boilerplate. Decide whether you
want sample content, choose between JavaScript and jQuery, and specify
your compatibility and server configuration needs. You’ll get a template
based on key features of Boilerplate to start your next project. You
might want to check out The HTML5 Framework Generator as well.
Layer Styles
A nice simple
tool for creating CSS in an intuitive way — very much like you would do
with a graphics editor. The tool lets you add drop shadow, inner shadow,
background, border and border radius and generates cross-browser CSS
code.
Mobile Boilerplate
A
template that creates rich and performant mobile Web apps. You can get
cross-browser consistency among A-grade smartphones, and fallback
support for legacy Blackberry, Symbian, and IE Mobile.
Kotatsu
A
simple HTML table generator that helps you create a table and throw in
row as well as column classes quickly and easily. And if you want a
quick tool to generate lists, you might want to take a look at li maker.
Vogue
This tool reloads
the style sheet (not the HTML) of a page in all browsers, and it can
even be configured to reload a page automatically in multiple browsers
at the same time. The tool doesn’t host your website but rather runs
your website’s own local server. To use it, you just need to install
NodeJS and npm.
LiveReload
LiveReload
applies CSS/JS changes to Safari or Chrome without reloading the page
and reloads the page automatically once the HTML changes. Alternatively,
take a look at Live.js, a library that
makes sure that you’re always looking at the latest version of the page
you’re working on, whether you are writing HTML, CSS or JavaScript.
css-x-fire
This
tool allows editing CSS properties in the IDE from Firebug CSS editor
and also allows the developer to concentrate on CSS styling without
having to refresh the browser.
Ffffallback
A bookmarklet
that lets you test different font stacks to find the best result. It
bascially scans the page’s CSS and creates a clone page where you can
test and analyze different fallback fonts.
LESS.app for Mac OS X
LESS
extends CSS with variables, nested rules and operators. This app makes
it very simple to use {Less} by automatically compiling *.less files
into standard CSS.
Less-Boilerplate
Boilerplate CSS is written in Less and includes a CSS reset, CSS3 helpers, centered column blocks, and much more.
Needle v0.1a1
Needle
is a handy tool you can use to test whether your CSS renders correctly
by taking screenshots of portions of a website and comparing them with
other screenshots. It also provides tools for testing calculated CSS
values and the position of HTML elements.
inuit.css
A CSS framework that provides you with the best dev tips, tricks and practices in one handy file.
Spritemapper
This
application merges multiple images into one and generates CSS
positioning for the corresponding slices; by reducing the amount of
images and better utilizing the connection, CSS spritemapping can reduce
your website’s loading time.
CSSsitemap System
David
Leggett shares with us the code for a CSS-based sitemap that Andrew
Maier and himself have created and are still working on. A set of tools
for project documentation & UX designers is also coming up soon.
Normalize.css
Normalize.css
takes a slightly different approach to CSS resets. Rather than
eliminating all browser defaults, Jonathan Neal and Nicolas Gallagher
have taken the time to research how different browsers handle different
bits of code and then kept the defaults that are useful. It saves you
time as a designer, while also providing consistent results.
Holmes
The
tool is a diagnostic CSS style sheet that highlights possibly invalid or
erroneous mark-up. Just add a single class, and it will create a red
border around errors, a yellow border around warnings and a gray border
around deprecated styles. In addition to the downloadable CSS style
sheet, there’s also a Holmes bookmarklet that lets you apply holmes.css to any page within your browser.
Zen Coding
Zen
Coding is an editor plugin for high-speed coding and editing. The core
of this plugin is a powerful abbreviation engine which allows you to
expand expressions (similar to CSS selectors) into HTML code.
CSS Stress Testing and Performance Profiling
Andy Edinborough shares the code he uses for his so-called ‘CSS Stress Test’ for almost all browsers.
CSS Crush
A CSS pre-processor that is familiar, convenient, intuitive, and much more — everything Pete Boere wants a pre-processor to be.
CSSPrefixer
CSSPrefixer
helps you improve your workflow and saves you a lot of time while
inserting all of the necessary CSS prefixes for various browsers.
iOS Media Query Previewer
A very simple tool to preview how a particular website looks on an iPhone as well as iPad.
CSS Pivot
Here you can add CSS styles to any website and share the result with a short, handy link.
PCSS
A PHP-driven CSS
preprocessor that helps you unleash the CSS3 power with much less code
and features like class nesting, server-side browser specifics, default
unit and variables. The tool requires PHP5.
JavaScript Tools
Modernizr 2
Modernizr is a
widely used open-source JavaScript library that helps you build HTML5
and CSS3-powered websites. With the second version of the tool, you can
now combine feature detection with media queries and conditional
resource loading. That gives you the power and flexibility to optimize
for every circumstance. Developed by Paul Irish, Faruk Ateş and Alex
Sexton.
yepnope.js
A conditional loader for your polyfills that is very fast and allows you to load only the scripts that your users actually need.
FitText
FitText is a jQuery
plug-in for responsive and fluid layouts that resizes display text to
fit the parent element. A good solution for creating headlines that look
good on everything from a small mobile device to a 30-inch desktop
display.
jQuery Waypoints
Waypoints is a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.
jQuery Plugin Boilerplate
This
boilerplate implements public and private methods, as well as public
and private properties, making it very easy when building both simple
and complex jQuery plugins.
ligature-js
This
Java script lets you convert text patterns into common typographic
ligatures by going through the text on a web page and inserting
ligatures where appropriate.
Placeholder jQuery Plugin/Polyfill
This jQuery plugin provides support for the new
placeholder="" HTML5 form attribute in browsers that don’t natively support it (IE et al).
StronglyTyped
A
JS library that allows you to specify strongly typed properties of
various types (Boolean, Number, String, etc.) and constants (final
properties in Java). It uses ES5 getters and setters and falls back to
regular, loosely typed properties in non-supporting browsers.
Kaffeine
A set of
extensions to the JavaScript syntax that attempts to make it nicer to
use. It compiles directly into JavaScript that is very similar, readable
and line for line equivalent to the input.
Crossroads.js
A
JS routing library inspired by URL Route/Dispatch utilities which are
present on frameworks like Rails, Pyramid, Django, CakePHP, CodeIgniter,
etc. It parses a string input and decides which action should be
executed by matching the string against multiple patterns.
Doctor JS
Doctor JS analyzes
your JavaScript code and provides you with a complete analysis in JSON,
whether you’re dealing with polymorphism, prototypes, exceptions or
callbacks. Tell Doctor JS about it:
HEAD.js
A script that speeds up,
simplifies and modernizes your site — a concise solution to universal
issues. You can load scripts like images as well as use HTML5 and CSS3
safely.
Hivelogic
Posting
your email address on a website is an easy way to get an inbox full of
spam. This anti-spam email address enkoder helps protect email addresses
by converting them into encrypted JavaScript code so only real people
using real browsers will see them. An alternative, more robust solution
is Mollom.
JavaScript Garden
A
JS project that offers advice on avoiding common mistakes and subtle
bugs, and lays down performance issues and bad practices that JavaScript
programmers might run into on their journey to the depths of the
language.
Syntaclet
By clicking on
the Syntaclet bookmarklet, you can automatically see all language
specific syntax colored with line numbers to all the code on the page.
Bookmarkleter
This
tool creates bookmarklets from JavaScript code. It removes new lines,
tabs, and optional spaces, URL-encodes special ASCII characters and
places code in a wrapper function (if not done already).
Bookmarklet Crunchinator
This
great tool helps you quickly create a bookmarklet from any JavaScript
code and will automatically be wrapped in a function to make it
bookmarklet-friendly.
Grids
The JavaScript Grid
A JavaScript-based grid overlay — just drag the snipplets into your bookmarks bar, open your URL and click the bookmark.
Grid Calculator
A calculator that helps you easily create your own grid and download it for either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.
GridCalc
This
easy-to-use grid calculator lets you download a configuration as a CSS
file which you can use in your project by simply entering the desired
width of your page and an aproximate range for your column and gutter
width. The calculator then gives you all the possible combinations
within the limits you entered and provides you with a nice visual
representation of the results and how the grid can be used.
Modular Grid Pattern
This
tool enables you to create a grid template for Photoshop and other
image editing applications. Enter the baseline, the module’s width and
height, the gutter width, and the number of modules (columns), and it
gives you a custom pattern to import into Photoshop. A Photoshop
extension is also available, and you can download a PNG or transparency
map, too.
Susy
A Rails framework that
enables you to create a completely custom grid based on your mark-up
and designs. No more compromises because the grid framework you’re
working with isn’t quite what you need, and no more spending hours
tweaking things to get them just right so that the design works the way
you want.
Griddle.it
A clean and simple way
to help you align your layouts. All you need to do is put your
dimensions after the URL provided to get a background guide image to
work with in your browser. Grids are created on the fly, so any
combination should work.
Last Click
ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers
Most
programmers would recognize ASCII characters on a website and know how
to use them in their own work. But how many know what to call
all those characters? This article gives a pretty thorough rundown of
common and not-so-common names for ASCII characters. It’s a useful guide
if you’re ever at a loss when listening to another programmer speak
about coding.
Weave Silk
Is your desktop,
motivation or even design work in need of something fresh, swirly and
remarkable? Just weave some Silk! Yuri Vishnevsky created this
experimental, magical interactive gimmick. You can spend minutes playing
around with this little technique, based upon HTML5 Canvas: no Flash in
use.
From Me To You
No, this has nothing
to do with CSS, HTML or JavaScript, but it is just remarkable. On his
photography blog, Jamir collects scenes from around the world, memorable
events, food, people and small personal universes. The interesting part
is that the photos are animated (hence the name); they come to life
using good old animated GIFs. Pay a visit to the article Positioning an animated gif over a jpg image. His short tutorial explains how to save on bytes when putting GIFs and JPEGs together, without losing too much quality.
(Nguồn : Smashing Magazine)
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