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• By David WalshJanuary 6, 2014

  Loading Scripts with jQuery

  JavaScript loaders are incredibly powerful and useful utilities.  I've even covered a few of them on this blog, like curljs and LABjs, and have used RequireJS and the Dojo loader on personal projects.  They're super powerful but can be overkill in some cases.  If...

• By David WalshDecember 30, 2013

  Cross Domain Canvas Images

  You can do some really awesome stuff with images when you push their data into canvas.  And of course, when you're done playing around with the image, you can export the canvas data to an IMG element and data URI.  What we sometimes don't...

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• By David WalshDecember 23, 2013

  Fullscreen API

  As we move toward more true web applications, our JavaScript APIs are doing their best to keep up.  One very simple but useful new JavaScript API is the Fullscreen API.  The Fullscreen API provides a programmatic way to request fullscreen display from the user, and exit...

• By David WalshDecember 19, 2013

  Reset a Branch to Remote State with git

  Every once in a while I accidentally hose my repository's master branch by merging or committing something I shouldn't.  And then on rare occasion I push that to my remote and then things get all sorts of messed up.  Every PR from that point on has...

• By David WalshDecember 18, 2013

  Delete Merged Branches with git

  It's common courtesy to keep your git branch list clean, especially when colleagues need to fetch your remote branches.  I'm a bit of a ... offender, when it comes to maintaining my git branch list.  My colleague John Karahalis is not, however, and he...

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• By David WalshDecember 18, 2013

  Accessibility and alt Attributes

  The alt attribute is important for a number of reasons:  it describes an image for screen readers used by those without sight or poor sight, it describes the image to bots, and it provides an indicator of what should have loaded if the image fails to...

• By David WalshDecember 16, 2013

  5 .htaccess Snippets to Borrow from HTML5 Boilerplate

  HTML5 Boilerplate is an awesome website template when you want all best pieces in place for you when you start your project.  A while back I covered 7 CSS Snippets to Borrow from HTML5 Boilerplate, so today I want to feature a few...

• By David WalshDecember 10, 2013

  David Walsh World Tour (Guest Blog Posts)

  I've been getting around lately and I wanted to share with you some blog posts that I've published on other sites! The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face I've been working on the MDN front-end redesign over the last four months.  It was a massive...

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• By David WalshDecember 9, 2013

  Table Cell and Position Absolute

  If you follow me on Twitter, you saw me rage about trying to make position: absolute work within a TD element or display: table-cell element.  Chrome?  Check.  Internet Explorer?  Check.  Firefox?  Ugh, FML.  I tinkered in the console...and cussed.  I did some researched...and I...

• By David WalshDecember 4, 2013

  5 Best Practice Mentalities to Get Over

  Every developers strives to write clean, maintainable, and functional code, whether they hack on the server side or dabble on the client side. Over the last few decades of the web, we've learned from some of our early mistakes and formed a site of always...