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HTML5 Prefetching
April 16, 2013 · 1 min read
One of the most interesting, but not widely known features of HTML5 is prefetching. By using it you can start loading pages (or even files) before the user requests them....
Not so popular HTML5 attributes
April 8, 2013 · 2 min read
HTML5 offers many new attributes that make our lives easier and our code more semantic. In many cases they even provide functionality that we used to implement with javascript, like...
How to style a file input element in Firefox
February 5, 2013 · 1 min read
Working on a recent project I found out the hard way that Firefox doesn't allow you to style a file input element the way you want. I'm using Chrome for...
Mobile media capture straight to your web form
January 23, 2013 · 1 min read
So, you've just build your latest responsive web design masterpiece and you're adding the final touches for the mobile viewport. Suddenly you discover a form where the user must submit...
Responsive web design and how to be nice to IE
January 15, 2013 · 2 min read
Many people believe that Internet Explorer (especially 7 and 8) cannot render correctly responsive web sites. Well the truth is that IE sucks big time (especially versions previous to 9),...
Call or text from a mobile device using very simple markup
January 7, 2013 · 1 min read
At my latest presentation (at upNorth web conferce in Greece), people were impressed with some very trivial markup that can add many points to your mobile site (and not only)...
Remove rounded corners from input elements on mobile webkit browsers
September 5, 2012 · 1 min read
Mobile Safari is probably the best browser solution for iOS devices. The browser offers many advanced features and some eye-candy form elements to interact with. These eye-candy form elements already...
How to style placeholder text
August 28, 2012 · 1 min read
The placeholder attribute is one of the most useful HTML5 attributes, because with just a tiny attribute you provide a better user experience to the end user, you make your...
Conditional CSS for Firefox / Gecko browsers
August 20, 2012 · 1 min read
Last year I posted how to add conditional comments for webkit-based browsers. This time I found a really cool hack on how to do the very same thing for Firefox/Gecko-based browsers...
Responsive media (images and videos) using only CSS
July 4, 2012 · 1 min read
There's no reason to explain everything from scratch, there are plenty of posts on this topic, but if you are building a responsive layout, don’t forget to apply these media...