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Category Archives: JavaScript
Stop SOPA
On January 18, 2012, to display opposition to SOPA, the internet killing so-called Stop Online Piracy Act, this blog will be temporarily shut down. If you would like to show your opposition to SOPA and PIPA, I created a small … Continue reading
Web Development for the iPhone: HTML, CSS & JS Support
Safari and Safari for the iPhone support all HTML elements, including deprecated elements and even some proprietary elements that were never part of any W3C specifications. In addtion, Safari is supporting some HTML5 elements, even though the HTML5 specifications have … Continue reading
iPhone Screen Orientation: Portrait and Landscape
When you tilt your iPhone, the screen changes orientation. The website you developed for the default portrait orientation may not look good in landscape mode, especially if you developed your page for the 480 (h) x 320 (w) screen. In … Continue reading
Posted in Browsers, Character Entities, HTML, iPhone, JavaScript, Web Development
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More CSS, XHTML and JavaScript at Community MX
I have been somewhat prolific as a technical writer for Community MX over the past 12 months. If you are interested in any of the articles, they are listed below. I will add new articles to this list as they … Continue reading
Posted in CSS (including hacks), firebug, JavaScript, Web Development
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hover pseudoclass for the iPhone
Since you’re not hovering, there is no hover pseudo class on the iPhone. instead they have touch events. To simulate the :hover pseudo class, include javascript similar to this: var myLinks = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’); for(var i = 0; i < myLinks.length; … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, CSS (including hacks), HTML, IE7, iPhone, JavaScript, Web Development
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jQuery Tutorial: DOM Manipulation and sorting
JQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that helps you quickly develop events, animations, and AJAX interactions. In this tutorial we go over the following: Setting up your environment $(‘document’).ready() replaces onLoad() Return a DOM object or objects innerHTML and textNodes … Continue reading
Posted in JavaScript, Web Development
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15 JavaScript Gotchas
We all know that JavaScript can trip you up. Here are a 15 common traps that can trip you up when coding javascript. You likely know most of the code on the page, but if you keep these 15 gotchas … Continue reading
Posted in Best Practices, JavaScript, Web Development
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JavaScript Object Literals Simplified
Instantiating Objects You are likely familiar with instantiating strings and arrays in javascript: var myString = new String(); var myArray = new Array(); Array and String are both objects, extended from the Object object. String and Array are objects inheriting … Continue reading
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JavaScript Date Object Methods
Methods of the JavaScript Date Object This is the second half of a two part discussion of the javascript date object. The first half discusses creating, formatting, extending and converting the date object. This section focuses solely on the methods … Continue reading
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CSS & Javascript Character Entity Calculator
Javascript and CSS Entity Conversion Calculator Enter your HTML Entity Character number (such as ट or just 2335 – ट) to get the CSS and JS values for that entity. Explanations on how to use the results are below. Numeric … Continue reading