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    Best Practices and Tools for Superior Prototyping Results

    There are a number of good prototyping tools on the market, but only a handful can legitimately qualify as being among the best. Five of the very best are listed here, along with brief descriptions of some of their key features. To use any of these...

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    Don’t Wait for ServiceWorker: Adding Offline Support with One-Line

    The HTML5 Application Cache should make building offline-friendly web apps possible. In practice, its unforgiving nature makes it very challenging to use at all, giving it a uniquely negative reputation among front-end developers. It's expected that apps continue to work offline—most users don't won't care about...

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    Social Sharing Links without Widgets

    Social sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus are essential for people who blog like myself.  Why write about something you're passionate about if no one can find the article (purposely or by chance?)  People share enough of your posts and you get noticed and get...

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    Scroll to Element within CKEditor

    CKEditor is the outstanding WYSIWYG editor we use on the Mozilla Developer Network.  We have many custom plugins and we do everything we can to make writing easy for contributors.  One trick I just picked up was skipping to an element within the editor by ID and setting the...

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    Elegant Selects with Quick[select]

    Form elements have always allowed limited styling...which is why I hate working on form display.  And I started when form elements were virtually unstylable back in the Internet Explorer 4 days.  Of course we've come a long way but there's one element which is still somewhat difficult to style and...

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    Be: With 130+ Pre-Made Layouts the Hard Work was Already Done for You

    Select a fully-customizable pre-made layout to serve as the foundation for your web page, and let Be Theme, do the heavy lifting. Imagine if you could choose among 130+ pre-made layouts like those shown below, with 8 new ones being added each month. It...

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    Add Custom CSS to WordPress Admin

    Believe it or not, I spend an awful lot of time going through my blog's comments and correcting spelling issues, code formatting, etc.; yes, even the comments from way back to 2007.  It's mostly for quality control purposes and ease of reading for my readers, especially the code...

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    GSAP + SVG for Power Users 3: New 1.18.0 Features

    This is the third article in a series about the GreenSock Animation API and SVG. This series isn't intended for beginners, but rather a deep dive into some of the more exciting and lesser-known features that one can work with after they've gotten past the initial...

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    Access Native Node.js Modules within Intern

    Intern is an awesome unit and functional test suite from SitePen.  I've been using this utility extensively over the past year, writing tests to make sure MDN's front-end is in good shape after code merges and pushes. Sometimes when writing tests I'll want to make use of a node...

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    Get Browser Information with Intern

    You know how you can't remember something your spouse feels is really important but you can remember every funny line from that movie you saw when you were 17?  That's how I feel after months of writing selenium tests using the Intern framework -- I've forgotten...