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![Add Your Website to Firefox’s Search Bar Using OpenSearch XML]()
Add Your Website to Firefox’s Search Bar Using OpenSearch XML
The ability to search right from your browser's address toolbar is a Godsend. No more extra Google or Yahoo page loads -- simply open a new tab and roll off your search terms. Of course Firefox comes with Google, Yahoo, and other search engines...
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Add the Script & Style Feed to Your Website
Script & Style is a website created by myself and Chris Coyier where bloggers and developers alike submit articles about CSS, XHTML, jQuery, MooTools, and other website design and development topics. The site's popularity continues to grow due the community's enthusiasm and...
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Send Email Notifications for Broken Images Using MooTools AJAX
One of the little known JavaScript events is the image onError event. This event is triggered when an image 404's out because it doesn't exist. Broken images can make your website look unprofessional and it's important to fix broken images as soon as possible.
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jQuery Link Nudging
A few weeks back I wrote an article about MooTools Link Nudging, which is essentially a classy, subtle link animation achieved by adding left padding on mouseover and removing it on mouseout. Here's how to do it using jQuery: The jQuery JavaScript It's important to keep...
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What I’m Thankful For: 2008 Edition
For all of you wacky Euros and non-American readers, today is what we call Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the day that we "express general gratitude" by eating way too much, getting in fights with family members, and watching football. This year I'd like...
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Create a Custom “:checked” Pseudo Selector for MooTools 1.2
A few weeks back, I showed you how to create a custom ":selected" pseudo selector for use in MooTools. It was just a small snippet but I've found it incredibly useful, as has been the ":checked" pseudo selector I've been using. The XHTML Above are examples...
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Check for Function and Class Existence Using PHP
When you've inherited a big website or you're working on a group website where you don't have quick access to communicate with the other developers, it's important to not assume that a custom function or class name has not already been defined. Here's how you...
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Submit a Form to a New Window
There are certain times when it's important to open a link in a new window. The short and effective way of achieving that is adding the 'target="_blank"' attribute/value to your anchor tag. But what about when you want form submission to have the same...
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PHP: Validating Numeric Values and Digits
I've inherited a lot of code where the previous developer used PHP's is_numeric() and it's gotten them into trouble. There's a big difference between validating that a value is numeric and validating that a value is all digits. Here's how to validate the two: A...
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Simple Username Creation Validation with PHP
When I create login areas (mostly intranets) for small websites, I'm always asked by the customer to keep usernames to letters and numbers. That means no email addresses as usernames and special characters like "_", "-", and ".". This, in my customer's mind, keeps the...
