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Fiddle Salad Play online with an instantly ready coding environment November 21, 2013 by Fiddle Salad Support 0 comments Best Python IDE on the Web Features of Python Fiddle include auto-complete, syntax highlighting, import of snippets by URL, built-in share menu, and authentication by Facebook, Twitter, or Google. Categories: Features & Changes | Tags: playground , python ide | Permalink October 7, 2013 by Fiddle Salad Support 0 comments Win a Free Book on Wijmo! Contest Winners and Results: The most popular fiddles ordered by Google Analytic’s pageviews are: http://fiddlesalad.com/javascript/accordion-jquery-session-one/ http://fiddlesalad.com/html/jquery-testing-and-practise/ http://fiddlesalad.com/less/my-login-page/ http://fiddlesalad.com/css/proof-of-concept/ http://fiddlesalad.com/javascript/slide-image-jquery/ and the winning authors of the fiddles are kustajiaji , oscavi , and myblck91 . Book Give-away: Hold a chance to win a free copy of the Building UIs With Wijmo”, just by making fiddles and sharing them! For the contest we have 3 eBook copies of Building UIs With Wijmo , to be given away to 3 lucky winners. How you can win: To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is create and save fiddles with one of these UI frameworks: jQuery UI, Kendo UI, or Wijmo. Then share them on Twitter, on your blog, or with your friends. To make it easy to add the required JavaScript and CSS files, you can now select UI frameworks under the Import menu. Please note: Winners residing only in the USA and Europe would get a chance to win print copies. Others would be provided with eBook copies only. Duration of the contest & selection of winners: The contest is valid for 20 days starting October 14, and is open to everyone. Winners will be selected from the fiddles that receive the most page views by unique visitors during the period. After the contest ends, Google Analytics data will be posted and the winners will be notified. About the book: Building UIs With Wijmo is written by Yuguang Zhang. This book of 116 pages will steer the readers to build adaptive websites that work on desktops and mobile devices. Categories: Features & Changes , Feedback | Permalink October 4, 2013 by Fiddle Salad Support 0 comments AWS S3 Costs for Hosting Static Files My costs for hosting static JavaScript and CSS files keep growing on Amazon, compared to my web hosting fees, which have stayed at a flat rate. So I decided to look into what’s happening. Ever since I started Python Fiddle in August 2011 , using AWS S3 to host static files I’ve been receiving monthly billing statements. So don’t expect the free tier to be any benefit when using AWS. On one co-op term at a startup working on unreleased software, the cost per month was above $300. The site was just hosted for development and testing. Fortunately, I’ve been wise enough just to use Amazon S3 for serving file so it doesn’t involve RDS or EC2 for database and computing needs. The costs for me are cheap. As of now, I have a limit of 20,000 GB on my web hosting account and I’m using more than 10,000 GB. So moving the files hosted on S3 over will just bump my web hosting costs to the next tier. Categories: behind the scenes | Tags: amazon aws | Permalink September 1, 2013 by Fiddle Salad Support 0 comments Icons for Chrome Apps How much do the roundness of icons affect user perception and acceptance of a chrome app? Absolutely and totally! From a recent experience in modifying the Jade Editor icon so that the corners did not have oversized curves, the answer is that it is best for icons to fit with their surroundings, blending into them. The increased number of installations since its modification gives credence to the hypothesis. A simple change in changing the corner radius to 4 instead of a large number made it fit in with icons from the Google pack. Categories: Design , traffic, stats, market | Tags: chrome app icons , jade editor | Permalink August 3, 2013 by Fiddle Salad Support 0 comments JavaScript Error Display in Fiddle Salad 1.5 In Fiddle Salad 1.5, JavaScript errors no longer go away silently in the background. In the modes with linting such as JavaScript and TypeScript, errors are shown immediately and the error line is highlighted. For modes that don’t have linting such as CoffeeScript, a warning icon is show. After experimenting with other approaches, I decided this was the least intrusive way to inform the programmer of an error. Errors should not be shown while the programmer is writing code since he has not completed the composition of his idea in form. The warning icon is shown beside the result window title. Currently, the error is shown on hovering over the result window content. Fiddle Salad 1.5 has built-in source mapping for CoffeeScript, so hovering over a JavaScript error highlights the line in CoffeeScript. Categories: Features & Changes | Tags: coffeescript debugging , javascript debugging | Permalink July 1, 2013 by Fiddle Salad Support 0 comments Popularity of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript Preprocessors Over at CSS Tricks, there was a poll in 2012 on CSS preprocessors and LESS was the most popular. With CSS preprocessors, the ones that support CSS syntax are more popular since you can reuse existing CSS code and copy from examples and tutorials. However, the story is different with JavaScript preprocessors. Sites like js2coffee and even FiddleSalad under the Tools” menu supports converting CoffeeScript to JavaScript. In addition, programmers prefer clean, easy to read languages. I checked Google trends for the search volume of the languages with unambiguous names, and it looks like TypeScript is starting to pick up popularity despite the lack of documentation. Beware that prior to 2004, markdown didn’t exist as well as many of the other languages. The search volume came from other usages of the words. Categories: traffic, stats, market | Tags: coffeescript , less css , markdown , popularity , preprocessors , scss , typescript | Permalink June 30, 2013 by Fiddle Salad Support 0 comments JavaScript Lint and CSS Lint in the Upcoming Fiddle Salad 1.5 I have been working on a new release of Fiddle Salad the past month with a major 5 Twitter: fiddle_salad @kdbates The tab is supposed to load docub.io http://t.co/z5KEmR3pxI , but it is out of service now 08:44:16 PM November 22, 2014 from Twitter Web Client in reply to kdbates Reply Retweet Favorite #haml compilation is back on http://t.co/kh16fiT4UO 07:05:40 PM November 14, 2014 from Twitter Web Client Reply Retweet Favorite @opalrb is a #ruby to #javascript compiler. Try it out at http://t.co/aRiVqTLL0c 10:29:36 PM November 08, 2014 from Twitter Web Client in reply to opalrb Reply Retweet Favorite #scss and #sass support is back up on http://t.co/AZF9SP0Fjb 10:28:34 PM November 08, 2014 from Twitter Web Client Reply Retweet Favorite vote for #less editor in the chrome web store if you use it: https://t.co/9DriZhloeS 06:45:03 PM February 07, 2014 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite Packt publishing is having an ebook bonanza: http://t.co/zspw1koZAL #packt $5 and #ebookbonanza 02:35:38 PM December 21, 2013 from Twitter Web Client Reply Retweet Favorite A new book on Wijmo and the table of contents: http://t.co/zbGkGfe7zD 04:20:35 PM November 30, 2013 from Twitter for Websites Reply Retweet Favorite after wrangling with the facebook like button so that the page doesn’t jump when it loads, http://t.co/zbGkGfe7zD is now complete 07:34:06 PM November 16, 2013 from Twitter Web Client Reply Retweet Favorite auto-complete now no longer shows up in comments and strings 06:41:55 PM November 13, 2013 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite fixed stubborn css bug on http://t.co/wBDvsNQ5V5 by placing all tags that change styles in the head https://t.co/eSsYYlwyHo #FiddleSaladDev 01:30:43 AM November 06, 2013 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite @fiddle_salad Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Yoko by Elmastudio...