Posts tagged “coding”
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I (Finally) Wrote a Book
Over the last five years, one of the most frequent questions I’ve gotten has been “When are you going to write a book?” Well, I did. Are you happy now?
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Face It: You Can’t Rely on JavaScript
I've been cautioning folks against over-reliance on JavaScript for the better part of a decade. Apparently Gawker didn't get the memo.
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The Challenges and Freedoms of Creating a Chrome App
As Aaron mention last week, we recently developed a Chrome App for wikiHow.com; in reality though we built a modern web app that leveraged many features of HTML5 and CSS3.
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We Built a Chrome App
Yesterday saw the launch of the Chrome App Store and, along with it, an app we created called the wikiHow Survival Kit.
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Be a good localStorage neighbor
While working on the client-side caching mechanism in eCSStender, I realized the dangers of
localStorage.clear()
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Give a hoot
As any competent JavaScript knows, it’s not cool to litter the global namespace with variables, functions, and the like. Occasionally, however, even closures won't help you trap a given variable.
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Audio Spectrum Analysis in JSON
I thought I would post the source for the the Spectrum Analysis tool I created for anyone wanting a quick way to get some data from their favorite tune and perhaps figure out a way to use it in a optimized fashion.
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A new “onload” scheme
A few projects back, I decided to rethink our JavaScript organization strategy and came up with a new technique that, I think, helps us better manage behaviors from page to page.
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Getting TinyMCE to respect empty alt attributes
By default (or at least in the default configuration provided under the LG TinyMCE extension for ExpressionEngine), TinyMCE will remove the
alt
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Automatically opting-in to IE8’s Standards Mode
As some of you have read (or heard), WaSP organized a Round Table discussion on IE8’s standards mode and its default behavior of opting-out any sites that don’t engage in version targeting.