If you're looking to test your HTML knowledge (and who isn't?), take a trip to the justsayhi website. How many elements can you name in five minutes?
As an aside, the JavaScript built into the test is simple but perfect -- an idea carried out well.
While synchronous code is easier to follow and debug, async is generally better for performance and flexibility. Why "hold up the show" when you can trigger numerous requests at once and then handle them when each is ready? Promises are becoming a big part of the JavaScript world...
Feature detection via JavaScript is a client side best practice and for all the right reasons, but unfortunately that same functionality hasn't been available within CSS. What we end up doing is repeating the same properties multiple times with each browser prefix. Yuck. Another thing we...
If you haven't heard of Woot.com, you've been living under a rock. For those who have been under the proverbial rock, here's the plot: Every day, Woot sells one product. Once the item is sold out, no more items are available for purchase. You don't know how many...
One of my main goals with the redesign was to make it easier for visitors to find the information that was most popular on my site. Not to my surprise, posts about MooTools, jQuery, and CSS were at the top of the list. What...
I make only 25 (the shame is over me :-D). I don’t know or remenber the existence of BDO, COLGROUP, ISINDEX, KBD, OPTGROUP, Q, SAMP, TT and VAR. The others i have a simple mind blank.