Posts Tagged ‘javascript’
« Older EntriesChanging History with HTML 5
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Here’s the demo for those who like to jump right in. The URL is an important piece of user experience in any Web site or application. We like using, what we call “talking URLs” so they’re easy to say and remember, like clearleft.com/is/richardrutter (one of the best all time). But as we build complex ajax [...]
Tags: api, history, html5, javascript
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HTML 5 Form Validation with Yepnope Fallback
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
In my last post about creating a proper fallback when using the new HTML 5 form validation I mentioned using modernizr to detect for support, then creating an if statement to call the jQuery validate plugin. One of the commentors mentioned using yepnope for this instead of loading the jQuery validation plugin by default. Since [...]
Tags: forms, html5, javascript, jquery, performance
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CSS Performance and OOCSS
Monday, April 18th, 2011
I’m in the process right now of signing on for my first speaking gig in since I moved to Boston (thanks to @joedevon) and it got me thinking about performance in CSS; a topic I really haven’t address in years since I started using my single-line CSS formatting style. Tip: use spaces rather than tabbing [...]
Tags: CSS, javascript, performance
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Quick Tip on Global Scope and jQuery
Friday, April 8th, 2011
Before launch of a new site, I always take the time to run my JavaScript through a checker. Personally, I use JS Lint. It’s not the prettiest thing, but it works great to pick up small errors and elements of bad practice. You’ll get alerts like “unused variable”, “don’t use eval(), it’s evil”, “implied global”. [...]
Tags: javascript, jquery
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Conditional Animation Speed in jQuery
Friday, January 8th, 2010
For years (and by “years”, I most likely mean “the years since I started using jQuery… maybe 2″), there’s been one aspect of jQuery that’s bugged the crap out of me, the animation speed. View demo We’ve all probably seen the problem that happens in many drop down menus of varying height. We set slideDown(300) [...]
Tags: advanced, javascript, jquery, ui
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Quick Tip #2 – Bringing Back Search with jQuery
Monday, June 29th, 2009
This is something I use on all my projects now. It’s designed for a search box, but can be used with any sort of input field. The great thing about this is that the field value “Search” will only come back onBlur if the field is empty (or doesn’t say “Search”). So if you started [...]
Tags: javascript, jquery
Posted in Web Development | 6 Comments »
This Week in Links 12/16
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
10 Tips to Improve Your UI Smashing Magazine, once again, has a great article about user interface. This article gives you some quick and helpful tips on improving your user interface design. A lot of stuff we should all be doing. Anti-RSI This is a Mac program to help prevent RSI (which is basically carpal [...]
Tags: health, javascript, ui
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This Week in Links 10/27
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Better CSS Font Stacks A good article on how to jazz up your stacks to try and take advantage of users who have more fonts installed. I’m all for this, and as long as it’s done carefully, can get a nice version of progressive enhancement. 5 Terrible SEO Ideas Richard Bradshaw goes over some trendy [...]
Tags: CSS, finances, font, javascript, jquery, seo, twitter
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