Consider this style definition: Note that box-sizing property above. It instructs the browser that outer edge of border box of the element should have 400x400px dimensions. But that is not so in all major browsers even all of them support box-sizing property. Here is the demo of the problem that you can try in your…
Category: Web Application Techologies
Sciter Chat
This month I was designing Chat module implementation. That is Skype, WhatsApp, Slack, etc. alike thing. Implementation is pretty simple and so greatly customizable. Let me know if you will need anything close to it.
Bloomberg Terminal, how I would do it with Sciter.
I think the image above looks familiar to people working around stock exchange. The screen contains many areas that are updated in real time so it is interesting to try to implement this using Sciter and its rendering pipelines. So I’ve made simple mockup of typical screen used there, in particular that scrollable list with…
Sciter+Node versus Electron
Electron As we know Electron.js is built of Chromium and Node.js. Where Chromium is a full scale Web browser that even uses its own, independent JavaScript engine. Therefore each Electron.js application is essentially a separate Web browser and Web server installed on your machine – as many Electron applications you are running – as many…
10 years of FlexBox’ing
10 years ago we, at W3C-style WG mail list, started discussion of giving CSS at least some flexibility. That was the time of semantic Web battles that showed up in “don’t use <table> for layout purposes” witch-hunt among others. The problem was that CSS did not offer any option to vertically align stuff inside browser…
Another name for bike’s junk yard is…
Sciter Notes application has been published
notes.sciter.com
Epic discussion: VS Code Uses 13% CPU When Idle Due to Blinking Cursor Rendering
VS Code Uses 13% CPU When Idle Due to Blinking Cursor Rendering Discussions: Reddit and Hacker News Couple of citations: Assuming 1 million users of VS Code This blinking cursor will waste $3 million per year in electricity costs, and output 32,000 tons of c02 per year. 2150: “Grandpa, why did the ocean’s dry up?”…
“Expert’s pyramid”
Does front end developer need to know anything except of __HIS_FAVORITE_FRAMEWORK_HERE__ ? From Dmitri’s Pavlutin “The path of software development craftsmanship”
Scalable Web Aplications
Nicholas Zakas is talking about basic principles of scalable [Web] application architectures: While this talk was made in 2013 it is still 100% applicable to modern Web and Sciter (desktop) applications.