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    Google Font API

    Google recently debuted a new web service called the Font API.  Google's Font API provides developers a means by which they may quickly and painlessly add custom fonts to their website.  Let's take a quick look at the ways by which the Google Font...

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    Make Dijit’s FilteringSelect Widget Display an Empty Option Value Label

    I was recently working with the FilteringSelect Dojo Dijit widget and realized that when the first OPTION in the SELECT widget had a label with an empty value (like "Choose one..." or "Select you state"), the label wasn't displaying.  That's no good!  What I did was...

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    WebKit Marquee CSS:  Bringin’ Sexy Back

    We all joke about the days of Web yesteryear.  You remember them:  stupid animated GIFs (flames and "coming soon" images, most notably), lame counters, guestbooks, applets, etc.  Another "feature" we thought we had gotten rid of was the marquee.  The marquee was a rudimentary, javascript-like...

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    SitePen:  Creating and Enhancing Dojo Classes

    You have probably noted over the past few months that I've been working a lot with the Dojo Toolkit.  SitePen has been kind enough to allow me to guest blog about a Dojo topic I find very interesting:  creating and enhancing Dojo classes.  From the...

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    WebKit-Specific Style:  -webkit-appearance

    I was recently scoping out the horrid source code of the Google homepage when I noticed the "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons had a style definition I hadn't seen before:  -webkit-appearance.  The value assigned to the style was "push-button."  They are buttons so that...

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    Using HTML5 Web Storage

    HTML5 is the biggest buzz word in web development today.  The new features promised by HTML5 will be a huge boost to web developers looking to stop rigging up ways to make their websites better, faster, and more flexible.  One feature that's caught my eye is...

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    MooTools Equal Heights Plugin:  Equalizer

    Keeping equal heights between elements within the same container can be hugely important for the sake of a pretty page. Unfortunately sometimes keeping columns the same height can't be done with CSS -- you need a little help from your JavaScript friends. Well...now you're...

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    dojo.connect: A Powerful Object and Event Listener

    One of the pieces of the Dojo Toolkit I've been really impressed with is dojo.connect. This connect method not only listens to DOM events but also allows you to listen to when a regular function is executed. Lets examine what dojo.connect is and the...

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    MooTools Class Sniffer Bookmarklet

    I was recently reviewing a few MooTools-driven websites and one of the questions I wrote down was "Which MooTools Core classes do you use and how many classes have you created?" Then I asked myself if there was a way I could figure that out...

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    New MooTools Methods:  .from()

    MooTools 1.3 beta 2 was recently released and you may see a few new methods implemented to String, Array, Number, and Function: from. The from method of each of those Types returns an object of that type. Simply put: you'll always receive...