Front End and Web Development
I am here not talking about Server-side improvements. I am here talking about Front-End improvements that really affects the web page speed.
The time spent till the website is running on the client’s browser. If we analyze that time, we will get:
Request Time (in milliseconds)
Server Process Time, or response time (usually in milliseconds)
Downloading web page and files into browser (few to several seconds, depending on internet speed)
Rendering on browser.
In the last post: Drag and drop with HTML5, i explained how to drag and drop using HTML5 and Javascript (jQuery). I mentioned that touch devices such as iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Samsung…. etc, does not support HTML5 Drag and Drop features.
Now, in this post, i want to explain how to make Drag and Drop possible for all devices. Before we start, you must know that it’s all about Javascript.. And i will use jQuery library while i am familiar with it and it simplifies writing javascript.
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It’s lovely to make you webpage interactive. jQuery plugins add effects to multiple elements of HTML. jQuery Gloss adds a Gloss (shining) effect to images by simple and lightweight code. This effect is added on hover effect (mouseover, mouseout). This plugin is ~2.2 Kb and it’s simple as: Add a DIV element to hold the… Continue reading jQuery Gloss Plugin
For web developers and web designers who want to add their FONT to websites without using Standard Web Fonts and without making text as images. Google has create a Google Font API for public use to give web developers and web designers the ability to use extra fonts on the web, not only the standard… Continue reading Apply a custom font to your website, Works on all Browsers
Lot of jQuery projects relies on keyboard/mouse event like pressing “p” for previous and “n” for next also using the arrows. Because this is important, I have managed a code to get the keyboard character on 3 events: – Keypress – Keyup – Keydown I have created a function to return the key as below:… Continue reading jQuery: Catch Keyboard Events
Using jQuery animate() function to do a smooth scrolling: I have also created a div as follow: <div id=”scrollToHere”> Scroll to here </div> You need something to run your script. Create a button like this: <input type=”button” onclick=”scollWin();” value=”Scroll up” /> The jQuery Code will be like this: function scrollWin(){ $(‘html,body’).animate({ scrollTop: $(“#scrollToHere”).offset().top }, 800);… Continue reading Scroll window smoothly using jQuery
Every browser has different CSS properties for less-used actions like: transparency or opacity. It was something weird to do transparency on your web page because there are lot of different web browsers. To make that easy, I have collected information and generated a CSS class that will work on most of the browsers. See the… Continue reading Web page transparency for all browsers
