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Regular Expressions for the Rest of Us
Sooner or later you'll run across a regular expression. With their cryptic syntax, confusing documentation and massive learning curve, most developers settle for copying and pasting them from StackOverflow and hoping they work. But what if you could decode regular expressions and harness their power? In...
![LightFace: Facebook Lightbox for MooTools]()
LightFace: Facebook Lightbox for MooTools
One of the web components I've always loved has been Facebook's modal dialog. This "lightbox" isn't like others: no dark overlay, no obnoxious animating to size, and it doesn't try to do "too much." With Facebook's dialog in mind, I've created LightFace: a Facebook lightbox...
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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...![Control Element Outline Position with outline-offset]()
Control Element Outline Position with outline-offset
I was recently working on a project which featured tables that were keyboard navigable so obviously using cell outlining via traditional
tabIndex=0and element outlines was a big part of allowing the user navigate quickly and intelligently. Unfortunately I ran into a Firefox 3.6 bug...



