Reading Time: 4 minutesVersion 59 of Chrome introduced something really cool for Mac developers: a Headless Chrome. It means that now we can run Chrome without using Chrome. How cool is that? In the past we’ve relied on phantom.js or Selenium Webdriver for … Continue reading
Category: Front-end
Front-end Development: the fun stuff that happens in the browser with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Promising a mutation: Using Mutation Observer and Promises together
Reading Time: 5 minutesSometimes you may run into a challenging situation: You want some JavaScript to execute, but only if some other element has changed. At work, we’ve recently run into a situation with this kind of challenge. We’re using a library on … Continue reading
Front-end for the back-end: CSS Variables for content-managed styles
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the things that front-end and back-end developers alike loathe is the dreaded scenario where a content author wants to be able to add their own styles to content. No, not set a skin or theme to the content. … Continue reading
Front-end for the back-end: Tips for debugging CSS
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo you’re a back-end developer. You write .net or Java all day. You create Schemas and Templates in Tridion. It’s Friday. The front-end developers have signed off early and you just got a high priority bug. And it’s in the … Continue reading
CSSOM revisited: Modifying styles with JavaScript a more sane way
Reading Time: 3 minutesWait, what’s the CSSOM? Well, I’ve talked about it in the past; it’s the object model for your styles. I even wrote about how to make a CSSOM analyzer. What I didn’t know then, that I know now, is that … Continue reading
When Tridion’s Experience Manager Messes up CSS
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve all been there. It’s 2:00 in the afternoon. You need to pick up your kids from school. But, when you look at a component in Tridion’s Experience Manager (XPM / Site Edit), it’s broken. WTF! You’re not a front-end … Continue reading
Four things Tridion guys should know about Front-end in 2016
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe world of front-end development is changing at a lightning fast pace. It’s hard enough for a front-end developer to keep up. So, how should a Tridion architect or general back-end developer stay “in the know” about the world of … Continue reading
Four Things a Front-end Developer Should Know about Schemas in Tridion
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou’re a front-end developer. You’re writing for a component template. You hand off HTML for a back-end developer to write a view. The back-end developer looks at it, goes cross-eyed and starts muttering to himself. You explain it. He says, … Continue reading
7 Things a Front-end Developer Should Know about Tridion
Reading Time: 8 minutesSo, you’re a front-end developer, eh? And you’ve been told that you’ll be writing code, and that it’ll be moved into a Content Management System. Called Tridion. And you can’t find out where to download it because there’s not a … Continue reading
Responsive Websites are all about How You Measure (in your CSS)
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe original title was, “CSS’ Units of Measurement and their impact to the quality of responsive websites”, and then I thought, “I wouldn’t want to read that — there’s no way someone else would.” So I figured I’d try something … Continue reading