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Regular Expressions for the Rest of Us
Sooner or later you'll run across a regular expression. With their cryptic syntax, confusing documentation and massive learning curve, most developers settle for copying and pasting them from StackOverflow and hoping they work. But what if you could decode regular expressions and harness their power? In...
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Detect DOM Node Insertions with JavaScript and CSS Animations
I work with an awesome cast of developers at Mozilla, and one of them in Daniel Buchner. Daniel's shared with me an awesome strategy for detecting when nodes have been injected into a parent node without using the deprecated DOM Events API.
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afterscriptexecute Event
Fellow Mozillian Daniel Buchner, curator of the X-Tag project and clever developer who showed us how to detect dom node insertions using CSS animations, recently showed me a new JavaScript feature I'd never heard of: the
SCRIPTelement's afterscriptexecute event.![HTML5 Datalist]()
HTML5 Datalist
One of the most used JavaScript widgets over the past decade has been the text box autocomplete widget. Every JavaScript framework has their own autocomplete widget and many of them have become quite advanced. Much like the placeholder attribute's introduction to markup, a frequently used...
