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    Detect Pseudo-Element Animation Support

    A while back I posted an interesting tidbit from Daniel Buchner which allows developers to detect DOM node insertions with JavaScript and CSS animations; an awesome trick driven by CSS animations.  Lea Verou recently posted another detection snippet driven by CSS animations:  detecting pseudo-element...

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    Learn More, Faster with Treehouse

    My sponsor, Treehouse, has mastered teaching complex development concepts and techniques using the visual media; something not easy to do, and neither is learning anew technology from scratch without proper guidance.  Tutorials are nice but oftentimes make assumptions about current knowledge and don't tend...

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    Get Element Attributes with JavaScript

    What I love so much about JavaScript is that the language is incredibly dynamic.  So dynamic that you can modify native objects if you so choose.  One dynamic property I've frequently been using lately is the attributes property of DOM elements.  This attributes property provides me...

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    5 Common Usability Mistakes and Solutions For Avoiding Them

    I'm sort of a grumpy web user, but I think that's part of what drives me to be a good Web Developer.  I get so annoyed at things that make using a website difficult, things that should be basic.  Here's a list of five common usability...

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    JavaScript Functions that Return Functions

    A few weeks back, I tweeted that I loved functions that returned functions. I got quite a few replies to the tune of....WTF?!  It's important that people understand the value of functions that return functions;  using this technique can save you code, JavaScript efficiency, and...

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    Detect Vendor Prefix with JavaScript

    Regardless of our position on vendor prefixes, we have to live with them and occasionally use them to make things work.  These prefixes can be used in two formats:  the CSS format (-moz-, as in -moz-element) and the JS format (navigator.mozApps).  The awesome X-Tag project has...

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    CSS tab-size

    The ridiculous tabs vs. spaces debate within code can get just as heated as the JavaScript semi-colon debate.  I'm a tab guy myself but to each their own...just don't work on a project with me if you aren't.  Anyways, I was quite surprised to find...

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    Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas

    The canvas element was introduced with HTML5 and provides an API for rendering on the web. The API is simple, but if you've never done graphics work before it might take some getting used to. It has great cross-browser support at this point, and...

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    Style Textarea Resizers

    Modern browsers are nice in that they allow you to style some odd properties.  Heck, one of the most popular posts on this blog is HTML5 Placeholder Styling with CSS, a tiny but useful task.  Did you know you can also restyle the textarea resizer in WebKit...

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    Convert NodeList to Array

    Now that most browsers have implemented querySelectorAll, the native selectorEngine, many framework-dependent developers are getting a rude awakening when dealing with the result of QSA calls:  the NodeList object.  NodeLists are array-like but don't feature many of the methods provided by the Array, like forEach, map...