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Vibration API
Many of the new APIs provided to us by browser vendors are more targeted toward the mobile user than the desktop user. One of those simple APIs the Vibration API. The Vibration API allows developers to direct the device, using JavaScript, to vibrate in...
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Welcome to My New Office
My first professional web development was at a small print shop where I sat in a windowless cubical all day. I suffered that boxed in environment for almost five years before I was able to find a remote job where I worked from home. The first...
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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...![CSS pointer-events]()
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...




