Tutorials Page 131

• By David WalshNovember 7, 2012

  Camera and Video Control with HTML5

  Client-side APIs on mobile and desktop devices are quickly providing the same APIs.  Of course our mobile devices got access to some of these APIs first, but those APIs are slowly making their way to the desktop.  One of those APIs is the getUserMedia API...

• By David WalshNovember 5, 2012

  Square Search Boxes in WebKit

  The new INPUT type of search is a nice semantic addition given to us under the HTML5 label. Unfortunately this element isn't ultra-stylable within WebKit. Here's a quick trick I've found to make input[type=search] elements look like their basic text counterparts: Using -webkit-appearance: textfield allows...

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• By David WalshNovember 2, 2012

  CSS Transforms

  CSS has become more and more powerful over the past few years and CSS transforms are a prime example. CSS transforms allow for sophisticated, powerful transformations of HTML elements.  One or more transformations can be applied to a given element and transforms can even be animated...

• By David WalshNovember 2, 2012

  Multi-Line JavaScript Strings

  The JavaScript language performs automatic semicolon insertion at the end lines, so creating multiline strings usually ends up looking something like this: String upon string of concatenated JavaScript mess...ugly, slow, and ...ugly.  Many novice JavaScript developers don't know that there's a better way to create multiline strings: Adding...

• By David WalshNovember 2, 2012

  Mighty Deals: JavaScript Madness!

  Whether you're an experienced developer or just starting out in programming, you know the value of learning JavaScript. These days, if you want your website to stand out from the rest of the pack, you'll need to integrate a fair share of jQuery and JavaScript...

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• By David WalshNovember 1, 2012

  Interview with John Hann, Creator of curl.js

  Hello John! For those who don't know you, give us a quick introduction and let us know what you're working on. Hi, I'm John. John Hann. "@unscriptable" on most of the interwebs. I've been writing Javascript since 1995. Like many, I wasn't...

• By David WalshOctober 31, 2012

  Move Caret to End of Input or Textarea

  One of the annoying parts of using the focus method of HTML elements is that they don't move the cursor to the end of INPUT or TEXTAREA elements if they already have content in them.  That's probably the last thing a user would want.  I was...

• By David WalshOctober 29, 2012

  Firefox OS Simulator

  If you haven't heard yet, Mozilla is working on an awesome new phone OS called Firefox OS.  From a developer's perspective, highlights include: all apps are and will be created from CSS, JavaScript, and HTML the OS is open source each app runs as its...

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• By David WalshOctober 29, 2012

  CSS Kwicks

  One of the effects that made me excited about client side and JavaScript was the Kwicks effect.  Take a list of items and react to them accordingly when hovered.  Simple, sweet.  The effect was originally created with JavaScript but come five years later, our...

• By David WalshOctober 26, 2012

  Build IRC Bots with Node.js

  One of the tasks on my WebDev bucket list has always been creating a functional IRC bot.  I have no clue why it's been high on my list, but ... it just has.  IRC bots are used for a variety of things:  Google search, keyword detection...