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39 Shirts – Leaving Mozilla
In 2001 I had just graduated from a small town high school and headed off to a small town college. I found myself in the quaint computer lab where the substandard computers featured two browsers: Internet Explorer and Mozilla. It was this lab where I fell...
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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 pointer-events
The responsibilities taken on by CSS seems to be increasingly blurring with JavaScript. Consider the
-webkit-touch-calloutCSS property, which prevents iOS's link dialog menu when you tap and hold a clickable element. Thepointer-eventsproperty is even more JavaScript-like, preventing: click actions from doing...![jQuery topLink Plugin]()
jQuery topLink Plugin
Last week I released a snippet of code for MooTools that allowed you to fade in and out a "to the top" link on any page. Here's how to implement that functionality using jQuery. The XHTML A simple link. The CSS A little CSS for position and style. The jQuery...
