Many of us follow @horse_js on Twitter. Twenty-one thousand of us, to be exact. That horse loves stirring up mischief by taking people’s statements out of context. It happened to me a few times and almost got me in trouble.… Read article “Who is @horse_js?”
Recreating the Twitter Heart Animation (with One Element, No Images, and No JavaScript)
I recently saw a recreation of the Twitter heart animation among the picks on CodePen. If I happen to have a bit of time, I always look through the code of demos that catch my attention to see if there’s something in there that I could use or improve. In this case, I was surprised to see the demo was using an image sprite. I later learned that this is how Twitter does it. Surely it could be done … Read article “Recreating the Twitter Heart Animation (with One Element, No Images, and No JavaScript)”
Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript
Chris Coyier
Lexy Munroe shows a dozen or so issues with Twitter’s reliance on JavaScript that could have been handled with some kind of progressive enhancement. Sometimes picking on the big players is useful, as they really do influence how other apps choose to do things. It’s not exactly punching down. … Read article “Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript”