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Historical Reference: the <hgroup> element 14 May 2013 | 04:37 am
Note: The element has been made obsolete. This post was pulled from the original version of my book Mobile HTML5. I have added it to the blog for historical reference. At the time of this posting, th...
Responsive Images: Clown Car Technique 15 Apr 2013 | 01:47 pm
Adaptive images are the current hot topic in the Adaptive Design and Responsive Web Design conversations. Why? Because no one likes any of the solutions. New elements and attributes are being discusse...
Death by 1,000 Cuts 23 Mar 2013 | 01:44 am
Anita Hill was telling the truth. How do I know she was telling the truth? Because what she accused Clarence Thomas of was, in many people’s eyes, inane. He made a really, really bad sexual joke. Some...
Pseudo or not-so-pseudo Click Mobile Events 19 Mar 2013 | 09:03 pm
When you ‘click’ with your finger there is no ‘right click’ event. Because of this, mobile devices react when you hold and click instead. Because there is no keyboard, mouse or right click, mobile bro...
Web Development Tips 14 Oct 2012 | 02:08 am
My Twitter account, WebDevTips, has been reactivated. Follow @webDevTips to get (almost) daily Web Development tips in your timeline. Tweets by @webdevtips
Register to vote for the 2012 Presidential Election 16 Sep 2012 | 10:35 pm
Download the National Voter Registration form (PDF) Below is a list of all the states, with links to more information about voting in that state. We’ve included information about voter registration d...
Make Twitter DMs appear as if read in all browsers 11 Sep 2012 | 09:59 am
I use Twitter.com to access my tweets. I do so from several different computers and several different browsers on each of those computers. Since Direct Messages read/unread status is stored in local s...
details and summary polyfill 3 Aug 2012 | 02:11 pm
add the summaryClick to your
Stop SOPA – Snippet to turn your site off on January 18, 2012 13 Jan 2012 | 04:18 pm
Black out your own blogs on january in opposition to SOPA. You can do so by adding this script to your site: Download the code from GitHub Note: To see it in action before January 18, set your compu...
SpeciFISHity: CSS Specificity 9 Jan 2012 | 12:05 pm
Some people are confused by CSS Specificity, especially with all of the (not-so) new CSS3 Selectors. The image below may help make sense of CSS Specificity. X-0-0: The number of ID selectors, represe...
