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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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5 Ways that CSS and JavaScript Interact That You May Not Know About
CSS and JavaScript: the lines seemingly get blurred by each browser release. They have always done a very different job but in the end they are both front-end technologies so they need do need to work closely. We have our .js files and our .css, but...
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Advanced CSS Tables II – Using Mootools JavaScript For Alternate Row Colors
As I discussed in Advanced CSS Tables - Using CSS3 For Alternate Row Colors, we will eventually be able to use the ":nth-child(argument)" pseudo-class in CSS3 to provide alternate row background colors. What do we use in the mean time? You can explicitly...
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HTML5’s window.postMessage API
One of the little known HTML5 APIs is the window.postMessage API.
window.postMessageallows for sending data messages between two windows/frames across domains. Essentially window.postMessage acts as cross-domain AJAX without the server shims. Let's take a look at howwindow.postMessageworks and how you...


