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Designing for Simplicity
Before we get started, it's worth me spending a brief moment introducing myself to you. My name is Mark (or @integralist if Twitter happens to be your communication tool of choice) and I currently work for BBC News in London England as a principal engineer/tech...
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fetch API
One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it,
XMLHttpRequest, wasn't really made for what we've been using it for. We've done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better. Our effort to...
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Adding Events to Adding Events in MooTools
Note: This post has been updated. One of my huge web peeves is when an element has click events attached to it but the element doesn't sport the "pointer" cursor. I mean how the hell is the user supposed to know they can/should click on...
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CSS Custom Cursors
Remember the Web 1.0 days where you had to customize your site in every way possible? You abused the scrollbars in Internet Explorer, of course, but the most popular external service I can remember was CometCursor. CometCursor let you create and use loads of custom cursors for...



