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7 Essential JavaScript Functions
I remember the early days of JavaScript where you needed a simple function for just about everything because the browser vendors implemented features differently, and not just edge features, basic features, like
addEventListenerandattachEvent. Times have changed but there are still a few functions each developer should...![Detect DOM Node Insertions with JavaScript and CSS Animations]()
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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Create Short Preview from Video
Displaying a preview image before loading a video is common practice with web media these days; oftentimes that image preview is the video's first frame or an important frame from the video. If you've visited an adult site recently (ahem), you will have noticed that not only do you get a preview image...
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Control Element Outline Position with outline-offset
I was recently working on a project which featured tables that were keyboard navigable so obviously using cell outlining via traditional
tabIndex=0and element outlines was a big part of allowing the user navigate quickly and intelligently. Unfortunately I ran into a Firefox 3.6 bug...



