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Convert XML to JSON with JavaScript
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I've been working on a super top secret mobile application using Appcelerator Titanium. The experience has been great: using JavaScript to create easy to write, easy to test, native mobile apps has been fun. My...
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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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CSS Ellipsis Beginning of String
I was incredibly happy when CSS
text-overflow: ellipsis(married with fixedwidthandoverflow: hiddenwas introduced to the CSS spec and browsers; the feature allowed us to stop trying to marry JavaScript width calculation with string width calculation and truncation. CSS ellipsis was also very friendly to...![AJAX Username Availability Checker Using MooTools 1.2]()
AJAX Username Availability Checker Using MooTools 1.2
This post has been updated: Using jQuery or MooTools For Drag, Drop, Sort, Save. The code on this page is no longer best practice. There a many examples of egregious usages of AJAX out there but every once in a while you find...



