Must Reads: Shadow DOM And Web Components

Must Reads: Shadow DOM And Web Components

Must Reads:
Shadow DOM &
Web Components

If you're a front-end developer, you may already be aware of Shadow Dom but even if you aren't, you will soon because Web Components will be a game changer for the modern developer.

Tut of The Month: Take Your Photo With With Your Browser— Accessing And Controlling The Camera With HTML5

Tut of The Month: Take Your Photo With With Your Browser— Accessing And Controlling The Camera With HTML5

Tut of The Month: Accessing And Controling The Camera With HTML5

Our Pick for Oct. 2012 —

For a long time one of the most astonishing features that made flash as the premiere technology for integrating multimedia into the web was it's ability to access and control a user's camera on their computer. Fast forward to the advent of HTML5 and this is no longer the case as camera control can happen right within your browser without any plugins.This month's Tut of the Month is an awesome tutorial by David Walsh which succinctly breaks down how to achieve this with rather surprisingly simple code.

Tut of The Month: Create a Customized HTML5 Audio Player

Tut of The Month: Create a Customized HTML5 Audio Player

Tut of The Month: Create a Customized HTML5 Audio Player

Our Pick for May 2012 —

Our pick for this month's edition of Tut of the Month features a great breakdown on how to create a custom HTML5 audio player by Aaron Lumsden's — published on webdesigntuts+. The tutorial shows how to build the player with HTML and CSS along with making it come to life with jQuery.

New Article: oCanvas: A jQuery- and Flash-Style Library for HTML5 Canvas

New Article: oCanvas: A jQuery- and Flash-Style Library for HTML5 Canvas

New Article Live:
oCanvas: A jQuery- and Flash-Style Library for HTML5 Canvas

Back in March ActiveTuts+ published the article I written about the HTML5 Canvas library, oCanvas. Learn how you can easily create HTML5 apps and animations with this simple library. If you ever used jQuery before, you will marvel at the simplicity of oCanvas.