JavaScript

Drupal is a great platform, but it can’t do everything. As your site grows, you’ll likely encounter use cases that Drupal can’t or shouldn’t do. Some examples include interacting with third-party APIs while preserving good page loads, or performing repeated actions (polling, etc) that result in site updates. Fortunately, separating these kinds of problems from Drupal and moving them to specialized “sub-stacks” within or near your Drupal stack is easy to do.

Todd and I had a great time going to HTML5.tx this past weekend. With some awesome sessions from Austin and beyond, it was a great day for front-end people to gather and geek out. I was very excited to present a session called Fun and Games with CSS3, which was a laid-back look at some of the newest CSS3 modules being developed today. I demoed a bunch of fun experiments and toys, and picked apart some of the more interesting ones on stage. You can check a some of them out at CSS3 Playground.