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Supporting users of jQuery plugins: when usability meets coding 14 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
Sooner or later we will publish our first jQuery plugin. If our plugin is well-designed and solves one or more coding problems, it is very likely that many users will start using our code in their web...
No planning, no code: a web developer’s tale 6 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
There’s a significant difference between the code we’ve planned to write and the actual code which powers our final projects. The question is: is planning so important? Many developers say that it dep...
CSS: creating mobile-friendly menus with Media Queries 20 Jul 2013 | 03:34 pm
In this brief tutorial I’ll show you how to turn an horizontal navigation menu into a vertical menu suitable for small screen devices using the CSS Media Queries. We start with the following markup: ...
jQuery: sorting JSON objects in AJAX 20 Jul 2013 | 02:31 pm
I was working on a web app which featured an extended search using several select boxes and input fields. The results returned by the PHP script were in JSON format. I wanted to order such results by ...
How CSS works: an explanation for web designers 14 Jul 2013 | 01:03 pm
CSS is not Photoshop. Period. CSS is a style sheet language designed to allow you to build complete page layouts starting from an HTML underlying structure. With CSS, you should rethink your approach ...
HTML5: embedding CSS styles with the scoped attribute of the style element 13 Jul 2013 | 10:07 pm
Embedding CSS styles into the HTML elements of a web document is allowed by the HTML5 specifications, provided that you use the scoped attribute of the style element. This feature has interesting impl...
A gentle introduction to jQuery for CSS developers 13 Jul 2013 | 09:17 pm
Most CSS developers are simply afraid of jQuery and JavaScript in general. They think they have not enough programming skills to get to the bottom of it and write proficient and fluent code. Well, sim...
Why I can’t stand web designers anymore 8 Jul 2013 | 12:15 am
I think that our code should always be made publicly available and shared among other people. Web developers generally know the importance of attribution when reusing or adapting our code, either you’...
How to create a test for the W3C CSS Test Suite 7 Jul 2013 | 10:55 pm
In this article I’ll explain how to build a test on a CSS feature for the W3C CSS Test Suite. The test will focus on the box model. The markup When providing a test that will be used by browsers ven...
Writing usable jQuery plugins: the user’s point of view 7 Jul 2013 | 10:09 pm
Sooner or later we will publish our first jQuery plugin. If our plugin is well-designed and solves one or more coding problems, it is very likely that many users will start using our code in their web...
