If you're linking to a JavaScipt file hosted on a source code repositories, you're putting your site and the web at risk.
Code repos could be compromised fairly easily either by hacking into maintainers' computers or github accounts, or by simply submitting innocent-looking patches which contain malicous code. If your favorite open source project does 'catch something' and your site hotlinks to it, your users will get the malicous code within minutes.
Read More →Google Chrome's manifest version 2 imposed some new security limitations, and one of them severly limited developers who use JavaScript templating libraries. So basically you need to either use a "sandbox" or move to a library which comply with the Content Security Policy, a.k.a CSP.
More →The Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator describes itself as "A powerful Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor", and delivers on that promise.
Using familiar swatches, a great color picker and some nice presets, this really is the ultimate tool for generating CSS3 gradients. Just create your gradient like you would in Photoshop, and copy the generated code on the right.
More →Sprite Cow is a unique tool with a convinient, easy to use interface for getting the details of CSS sprites.
You load a picture either from browsing for it or by dragging its file from the computer and dropping it onto the page. Then clicking on singualted areas on the image will automatically detect their boundaries and output the CSS code needed for using the selected area as a sprite.
More →cubic-bezier.com is a neat tool for creating, comparing and previewing different easing functions in an easy-to-use interface. The handles are draggable and moving them around automatically updates the output, ready to copy-paste into your stylesheet.
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