localStorage is the W3C Web Storage API specification that allows you to store data locally in key/value pairs, using Javascript. These are stored as strings in the client’s browser without using Cookies of any kind. It is supported in all modern HTML5 browsers. This is not to be confused with the defunct W3C Web SQL … Continue reading →
If you haven’t already discovered this Web Developer’s hidden gem, you’ve got to give it a try! I’ve always meant to start using it regularly, but I always get busy with projects… JsFiddle allows you to take HTML, CSS and Javascript (and you can choose virtually ANY Javascript framework, including Mootools, jQuery and Dojo) and … Continue reading →
When developing high end web applications which use a JSON proxy or service, you’ll probably find using Chrome, Safari or Firefox w/ Firebug to be the best for development use… I rarely use IE8/9 because development on IE still feels quite clunky… the lack of a “Inspect Element” (right-click) feature is also annoying.
If you’re a Firefox user, you may have noticed it took quite a long time to get your hands on Firefox 4 (it was released March 22, 2011 and came almost 15 months after Firefox 3.6). That’s because Mozilla had quite a long development window. Compared to Google’s Chrome browser which releases a new version … Continue reading →
One of the coolest features of HTML5 is the ability to do Speech-to-Text, natively in your web browser. Google’s Chrome leads the way as they’ve implemented this feature in their lastest Chrome release.
For those of you who have been using the Mootools 1.2 library, the time may soon come when you want/need to upgrade to 1.3. It’s not as hard as it sounds, but there are a few things you need to think about.
The Dojo website releases Cheat Sheets with each release, and the most recent version they have is the Dojo 1.6 Cheat Sheet. It’s only available as an HTML file, which is strange since they had a PDF version for Dojo 1.3. As of this writing, the most recent build of Dojo is Dojo Release 1.6.1.
From the same blog that released the Mootools Cheat Sheet 1.2, Maik Vlcek (@FiveStevensonSq) has released the Mootools Cheat Sheet 1.3, which is a 2 page document showing both Core and More goodies.
If you’re new to HTML or CSS, you may have recently been introduced to the CLASS attribute for an HTML element. Assigning a class to any HTML element allows you to define a CSS style to that element. <html> <head> <style type=”text/css”> div.red { color: red; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>CSS Class Demo</h1> <div class=”red”>This text will … Continue reading →
Ever find it slightly annoying when you copy and paste text in the new versions of Skype and you get an unwanted Name and Timestamp “image” included in your sentence, rather than just plain text? Notice the fancy (unwanted) image that got pasted into my conversation, rather than just the letters “brb”? Luckily, there’s an option … Continue reading →