Being kind of a pest about HTML5 Web Components these days here, and I’m sorry about that. But this new one rocks, and I am really happy with the result of the fun I had the other day, trying to build a guitar chord diagram with pure CSS… Here it is – AcidJs.XChord – a … Continue reading “Guitar Chord Diagrams as… HTML5 Web Components. This Rocks!”
Recently I discovered the huge free data sets on geonames.org, and I am actually planning a series of HTML5 Web Components which utilize this data. The first one is X-Flag – a custom HTML5 tag, able to display country flags out of a specified country code in three different sizes: [sourcecode language=”html”] <acidjs-xflag code="bg"></acidjs-xflag> <acidjs-xflag … Continue reading “HTML5 Web Component for Country Flags”
Memes have been circulating the Internet for many years and are among the few phenomena whose creation approach never changed (and never will). Dare to imagine a meme without the sloppy white font, black stroke and huge text shadow? The charm of memes is not only in the witty phrases, but also in that particular … Continue reading “X-Meme: A Modern HTML5 Approach to Memes. You don’t say?”
Just finished my new experiment with HTML5 Web Components and Mozilla X-Tags, called X-Password. What you get is a JavaScript-less extended password input, allowing Windows 8-like password reveal behavior out of the box: [sourcecode language=”javascript”] <acidjs-xpassword></acidjs-xpassword> [/sourcecode] The input supports all JavaScript getters, setters, events and form submission is handled natively. X-Password does not have … Continue reading “X-Password: HTML5 Web Component Input on Steroids”
Continuing my explorations in the amazing field of HTML5 Web Components, which I started last week, I am happy to present my new endeavor: AcidJs-X-AJAX is a lightweight custom tag, capable of making asynchronous server calls with (almost) no coding client-side. Again, it is built on top of Mozilla’s X-Tags library, and looks like that: … Continue reading “New HTML5 Web Component – AcidJs-X-AJAX”
People who follow this blog (cheers, mates!) and my fellow co-workers know that I am interested in the form control styling, and especially that of check boxes and radio buttons. Over the years I have come up with a number of different solutions, but finally I found the time to start experimenting with the new … Continue reading “X-Checkbox – Custom HTML5 Web Component”