Posts Tagged ‘Essentials’
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Ten Oddities And Secrets About JavaScript
- May 30th, 2011
- 136 Comments
JavaScript. At once bizarre and yet beautiful, it is surely the programming language that Pablo Picasso would have invented. Null is apparently an object, an empty array is apparently equal to false, and functions are bandied around as though they were tennis balls. This article is aimed at intermediate developers who ...
Read more...An Introduction To CSS3 Keyframe Animations
- May 17th, 2011
- 79 Comments
By now you’ve probably heard at least something about animation in CSS3 using keyframe-based syntax. The CSS3 animations module in the specification has been around for a couple of years now, and it has the potential to become a big part of Web design. Using CSS3 keyframe animations, developers can ...
Read more...Using CSS3: Older Browsers And Common Considerations
- May 3rd, 2011
- 64 Comments
With the arrival of IE9, Microsoft has signalled its intent to work more with standards-based technologies. With IE still the single most popular browser and in many ways the browser for the uninitiated, this is hopefully the long awaited start of us Web craftsmen embracing the idea of using CSS3 ...
Read more...How To Use CSS3 Pseudo-Classes
- March 30th, 2011
- 63 Comments
CSS3 is a wonderful thing, but it’s easy to be bamboozled by the transforms and animations (many of which are vendor-specific) and forget about the nuts-and-bolts selectors that have also been added to the specification. A number of powerful new pseudo-selectors (16 are listed in the latest W3C spec) enable ...
Read more...In Search Of The Perfect CAPTCHA
- March 4th, 2011
- 153 Comments
CAPTCHAs, or Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, exist to ensure that user input has not been generated by a computer. These peculiar puzzles are commonly used on the Web to protect registration and comment forms from spam. To be honest, I have mixed feelings ...
Read more...!important CSS Declarations: How and When to Use Them
- November 2nd, 2010
- 104 Comments
When the CSS1 specification was drafted in the mid to late 90s, it introduced !important declarations that would help developers and users easily override normal specificity when making changes to their stylesheets. For the most part, !important declarations have remained the same, with only one change in CSS2.1 and nothing ...
Read more...Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery
- August 4th, 2010
- 89 Comments
The explosion of JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery onto the front-end development scene has opened up the power of JavaScript to a far wider audience than ever before. It was born of the need — expressed by a crescendo of screaming by front-end developers who were fast running ...
Read more...The Principles Of Cross-Browser CSS Coding
- June 7th, 2010
- 263 Comments
It is arguable that there is no goal in web design more satisfying than getting a beautiful and intuitive design to look exactly the same in every currently-used browser. Unfortunately, that goal is generally agreed to be almost impossible to attain. Some have even gone on record as stating that ...
Read more...Modern CSS Layouts, Part 2: The Essential Techniques
- May 6th, 2010
- 47 Comments
In Modern CSS Layouts, Part 1: The Essential Characteristics, you learned that modern, CSS-based web sites should be progressively enhanced, adaptive to diverse users, modular, efficient and typographically rich. Now that you know what characterizes a modern CSS web site, how do you build one? Here are dozens of essential ...
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