Archive for August, 2014

Grunt build error behind proxy

Tuesday, August 19th, 2014

While working on a project, I used the Yeoman webapp generator and selected; Bootstrap Sass, jQuery and Modernizr. Everything has worked well, the ‘grunt serve’ and ‘grunt test’ commands, however when I want to run the ‘grunt build’ command to upload the contents of my ‘dist’ folder to a web server, I get prompted with the following error:

Looking for Modernizr references in dist/styles/main.css >> svg
Downloading source files
A server error occurred attempting to download a file: 
Fatal error: connect ETIMEDOUT

I’m not sure if it’s something to do with my bower components or the proxy that I’m sitting behind?

At the moment, the workaround I’m using is to manually add the scripts (jQuery, Modernizr and Bootstrap) to the scripts folder then to link it to my html files. But surely there is a better way to do this?!

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CSS3 Grayscale Filter

Tuesday, August 5th, 2014

I stumbled upon a quick video on YouTube on how to use the CSS3 grayscale filter when hovering on an image.

The results can be seen via this Codepen CSS3 Grayscale Filter

Click on the CSS tab in the Codepen example above to see how this filter effect can be implemented in your CSS.

“Method of applying filter effects (like blur, grayscale, brightness, contrast and hue) to elements, previously only possible by using SVG.” – Can I Use

“It’s worth noting that right now, CSS Filter Effects are an unoffical specification – however, the editors of the spec include representatives from Adobe, Apple and Opera, and we have already got implementations in Chrome, Safari and iOS 6.” – CSS3 Filters

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