Tables are back baby
Well, sort of. AJaxian wrote a very interesting post about display: table CSS and how after all this time of moving away from table layouts to CSS layouts we are now putting it all into CSS so we can...
View ArticleWeb workers
These days, we’re all trying to do very clever things in the browser, that take up heaps of system resources. Often, your application will be doing so much that the system can barely cope – and with...
View ArticleTesting select fields in Mocha
Recently I spent a good twenty minutes tearing my hair out over a JavaScript unit test I was trying to write. The answer turned out to be a difference in the way our Mocha-based DOM differs from how it...
View ArticleShadow DOM
If you’re using HTML5, you may well have come across templates, which are a way to create reusable code clocks. They can be used in conjunction with the Shadow DOM to create more semantic markup while...
View ArticleMaking use of the Open Graph Protocol
When you paste a link into Facebook or other social networks (which in theory you could use) it generates a preview of the website including a title, image and description. Webmasters actually have the...
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How to stop VoiceOver saying the word “group”
You’re trying to make your website accessible. Lovely stuff. But because screen reader technology is so bad, you need to add a bunch of inline span tags with the aria-label attribute on them so that...
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Front-End Web Development course
I have published a lot of courses on web development and programming but I don’t think I have ever done a back-to-basics beginners’ course before. That changes today the launch of my Front-End Web...
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