This week's JavaScript news, issue 254

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 254 — October 16, 2015 Smartcrop.js: Content-Aware Image Cropping Works out where the details of an image are so the desired crop focuses on the subject. Try a live test with your own images! Jonas Wagner An ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points While Nicolas’ ES6 in Depth series plumbed the depths of ES6, if you want all the key points laid out in brief in one place, this is a great list. Nicolas Bevacqua Authoring JavaScript Modules with ES6 Want to write a module so it can be used out of the box in Node and client-side through tools like Webpack or Browserify? Jack shares an approach. Jack Franklin OSCON for €99.00 OSCON is happening in just a few weeks on 26–28 October in Amsterdam. If you thought you couldn’t go, think again. We now have the OSCON Pavilion Plus Pass. Not only do you get to choose two sessions to attend, you also get access to all of this. O'Reilly   Sponsored A Gentle Introduction to Ember 2.0 A walkthrough that goes into a ton of detail of getting up and running with Ember and creating a simple app. James Futhey Google Deprecating Its AJAX Crawling Scheme Googlebot is now so smart that their AJAX Crawling advice is deprecated. Official Google Webmaster Central Blog 7 Things You Should Know About WebAssembly “WebAssembly aims to be the bytecode for the web.” If you’ve heard about it but are unsure on the broad concepts involved, this is a good primer. Sebastián Peyrott No, Really... Robots and JavaScript? At Strange Loop, Raquel Vélez looked at why JavaScript is an ideal language for starting to play with robotics projects. YouTube Node v4.2.0 'Argon' Released (and 4.2.1 Too) 4.2.0 is the first release with Long Term Support (LTS) meaning support and updates will continue for at least 30 months. Node 4.2.1 followed a day later. Node.js Foundation Lazy, Composable, and Modular JavaScript The art of using new ES6 features, higher order functions and lazy evaluation to write better JavaScript. Mudit Ameta Jobs Tired of Getting Bad Job Offers? Get Top German Companies to Compete For YouNever miss any job opportunity and get your dream job without searching for it. You’ll know all important information in advance: salary, tech stack & perks. Get started today! 4scotty Creative Developer - London, UKWe help businesses to innovate like startups, and solve the right problems. If you like being trusted to get the job done, want to work with highly talented people and cutting edge technology, then this role is for you.  Pebble {code} Want to spend less time job searching? Apply to the best startups in 60 seconds.If you’re accepted, startup decision-makers will email you as soon as next Monday. You decide where to interview and where to work. Now open in SF, NYC, and remote. Join the Underdog.io platform today! Underdog.io In brief A Mega AMA with Mike Bostock, creator of D3.js news One of Reddit’s famed ‘ask me anything’ sessions, yielding over 400 comments.   Reddit Microsoft Enables Async/Await in Edge Preview Build news  InfoQ ES6 Support in WebKit news Safari 9 on El Capitan and iOS9 is introducing ES6 classes, promises, maps, sets, symbols, and other more.   WebKit.org An Introduction to JavaScript Iterators and Generators tutorial  R. Mark Volkmann Building an Image Gallery Component with Polymer tutorial  SitePoint Crash Course to Angular tutorial Jump right in and build your first Angular web app today.  Outlearn   Sponsored How to Build a tvOS Application for Apple TV Tutorial tutorial Using JavaScript and Apple’s special TVML markup language.   Jose Santiago Casanova Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript tutorial Old, but doing the rounds again and still good.   Addy Osmani Node.js Security Checklist tutorial node  Gergely Nemeth React+Flux Can Do in Just 137 Lines What jQuery Can Do in 10 opinion This is definitely a conversation starter..   Swizec Teller Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Defends ES6 Classes opinion “ES6 classes are not the most elegant choice, but the most pragmatic one.”   Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Developing Large-Scale Applications with TypeScript opinion  Gil Amran The Future of Web Development with Falcor, React, and ES6 opinion  Ray Nicholus The State of Tooling in JavaScript opinion tools  Jack Franklin Fayde: Silverlight Everywhere, but via JS and HTML5 tools A XAML engine using JavaScript and rendering to the HTML5 Canvas.   Brad Sickles Try RASON® – RESTful Analytic Solver® Object Notation for JavaScript tools RASON® is the super-easy way to solve powerful optimization and simulation models in your web or mobile app. Use a high-level modeling language embedded in JSON, and a simple, Azure-backed REST API that’s free for small problems, but scalable to handle huge models.  Frontline Systems Inc   Sponsored Mancy: A Cross Platform JavaScript REPL built on Electron and React tools  toolitup Rune.js: SVG-based JavaScript Drawing Library code Packed with features. 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20 Beautiful Examples of Modal Windows

Websites often use modal windows as call-to-action tools and for pointing out important information.

For example, the call-to-action in a modal window might ask the site visitor to subscribe to the site’s newsletter. A study by user experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group revealed that 90% of the study’s participants chose to receive updates from companies via an email newsletter, versus only 10% via Facebook. This might indicate that an email newsletter can be an effective way of developing customer relationships.

Let’s look at a few examples of well-designed modal windows. The following examples are mostly within the fashion industry because that’s the industry I’m currently working in.

Anatomy of a Well-Designed Modal Window

Seamless Design

It goes without saying that modal windows should be in tune with your site’s visual style. You don’t want modal windows to appear third-party-esque.

We follow this rule over at Mylo, a menswear mobile app that I have founded. The modal window that asks our website visitors for their email address is consistent with our brand’s visual attributes. In our case, a lot of white space, clear typography, and the copy all match up with the design guidelines of our brand.

Mylo

The modal window found at Jean Stories (a fashion site dedicated to denim) also stays consistent with the site’s overall visual style. Notice their consistent application of their brand’s color scheme and the incorporation of their logo within the modal window.

Jean STORIES

Clear Purpose

Modal windows should preferably have a single objective. The objective might be to let the visitor know of a site-wide discount or get him/her to sign up for the site’s newsletter.

A well-designed modal window should only request essential information. Overloading potential customers with form fields to fill out and boxes to check off is not wise because doing so might lead to inaction.

Ecommerce websites may want to consider offering an incentive in order to compel visitors to perform the desired action, such as a discount on goods in exchange for signing up to the site’s newsletter. Below are a few examples of modal windows that offer percentage-based discount incentives:

AYR

Finery

Misha Nonoo

M.PATMOS

Content is King

Your modal window’s copy should embody your brand’s attitude, tone, and style.

You can also state a value proposition in the modal window. For example, DuJour magazine’s modal window states their newsletter’s value proposition to potential subscribers: "The luxe content you can’t find anywhere else."

DuJour

More Modal Window Examples

Below are a few more modal windows that follow the general guidelines mentioned above.

Steven Alan

Bonobos

Stella McCartney

The Prince Ink Company

Need Supply Co.

Greats

The Socialite Family

Thisispaper Shop

Volta Footwear

Austin Beerworks

Atea Oceanie

Victory Journal

Zurb University

Summary

Modal windows can be used to ask your site visitors to perform an action (such as subscribing to your email newsletter) or for sharing an important message.

A good modal window will have:

• a design that is consistent with your brand’s visual style
• a clear objective
• good content that reflects the attitude, tone, and style of your brand

Thanks to Faiz Tariq and Carolyn Buszynski, the co-authors of this article.

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Daniel Eckler is an entrepreneur based Toronto, Canada. His most recent startup is Mylo. Past ventures include Piccsy and EveryGuyed. He has a background in New Media Arts. Learn more about him by via his website, and join him on Twitter and Facebook.

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Blab.im: Why Your Business Should Consider Blab

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Ginventory

Ginventory is an app containing nearly 1500 differents gins and offering the best serves. We built website inspired by the app: a simple and smooth experience.
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KA_LEN_DIAR – Unique Diaries 2016

Landing page with a pixel-theme promoting the new range of recycled hand-made 2016 diaries. Quite a slick slide-up effect when hovering over the first row of diaries. Definitely a lot going on but you can see this is what they are going for.

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Matteo Belfiore

Nice subtle gradient effect revealing the bio in this personal One Pager for digital designer and developer 'Matteo Belfiore'. Also smart use of a .re domain to match this surname.

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Manuel Moreale

Minimal personal One Page redesign with a typewriter preloader effect for Italian designer and developer, 'Manuel Moreale'.

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