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Ambrosia 'speaks' French, Serbian and Romanian
September 11, 2013 · 1 min read
I just wanted to dedicate this post to the generous translators of the Ambrosia theme. The theme made it to version 1.1.5 and although I maintain it (making sure it...
Get element's tagname using DOM's tagName property
September 3, 2013 · 1 min read
A couple of weeks ago I posted how can you get an element's tagname using jQuery's .prop() method"). A simpler alternative could be the below code: The .get() method") (don't...
Moved all my code to CodPen
August 30, 2013 · 1 min read
Once again (and hopefully for the last time) I moved all my code snippets to Codepen. I think it better suits my needs since most of my code examples are...
Complete UX tool lists
July 23, 2013 · 1 min read
Lately I have become a heavy reader of various UX related books. Below I summarize lists of useful UX tools for every UX process. Some of them overlap categories (for...
Conditional styles for IE10
July 10, 2013 · 1 min read
As you probably know Internet Explorer 10 doesn't support the good-old IE CSS conditional comments. This means that the below code won't work in IE10! But don't worry, you can...
Responsive web design and touch devices
June 19, 2013 · 8 min read
Well you've just finished your glorious responsive web design, using all the latest trends and best practices, like mobile first, HTML5 semantics, progressive enhancement and many more. You've also tested...
jQuery element's tag name
May 22, 2013 · 1 min read
Getting the selected element's tag name is very easy in jQuery. Just use the below code. Keep in mind that by default the returned tag's name is capitalized so if...
jPrefetch jQuery plugin
May 14, 2013 · 1 min read
I just released jPrefetch a nice little jQuery plugin that makes HTML5 prefetching a bit easier. You can very easily use it for your current solution (static website or even...
Base tag: Learn how to use it
May 8, 2013 · 2 min read
Every now and then a friend/colleague of mine asks me to have a look at his latest masterpiece (aka site). In many cases the second request is to have a look...
Autocompletion with HTML5 datalists
April 23, 2013 · 1 min read
We have all used (and most of us built) an autocomplete input element. There are thousands of plugins/widgets out there, although below I'm demonstrating the easiest, most semantic and HTML5...