Web Development Tips
Estelle Weyl | October 13, 2012
My Twitter account, WebDevTips, has been reactivated. Follow @webDevTips to get (almost) daily Web Development tips in your timeline.
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Make Twitter DMs appear as if read in all browsers
Estelle Weyl | September 11, 2012
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 storage, I have to ‘read’ my DMs in … More …
details and summary polyfill
Estelle Weyl | August 3, 2012
var summaryClick = function(elem){
if (!('open' in document.createElement('details'))){
var deetails = elem.parentNode;
if(deetails.hasAttribute('open')){
deetails.removeAttribute('open');
} else {
deetails.setAttribute('open', 'open')
}
}
}
add the summaryClick to your <summaryclick event listeners
And then in my CSS I put something similar … More …
Placeholder Attribute Support in ALL browsers
Estelle Weyl | October 29, 2010
There is no reason to NOT use HTML5 form attributes. HTML5 form elements enhance forms. In this quick snippet, we show how easy it is to get old browsers to pretend that they support the placeholder attribute
Introduction to GeoLocation
Estelle Weyl | August 15, 2010
Geolocation allows users to share their physical location with your application if they choose to. Especially useful in social networking, geo tagging, and mapping, but applicable to any type of application, geolocation enables developers to enhance the user experience, making content, social graphs and advertisements more relevant to the location of the user. Learn the basic JavaScript to determine your user’s location.
HTML5: Introduction to <canvas>
Estelle Weyl | August 12, 2010
The HTML5 Canvas specification is a JavaScript API for coding drawings. The canvas API allows the definition of a canvas context object as the <canvas> element on your HTML page inside which we can draw. In this tutorial we introduce you to the canvas element and the basic canvas javascript properties and methods.