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Recent Features
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Vibration API
Many of the new APIs provided to us by browser vendors are more targeted toward the mobile user than the desktop user. One of those simple APIs the Vibration API. The Vibration API allows developers to direct the device, using JavaScript, to vibrate in...
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fetch API
One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it,
XMLHttpRequest, wasn't really made for what we've been using it for. We've done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better. Our effort to...
Incredible Demos
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CSS Ellipsis Beginning of String
I was incredibly happy when CSS
text-overflow: ellipsis(married with fixedwidthandoverflow: hiddenwas introduced to the CSS spec and browsers; the feature allowed us to stop trying to marry JavaScript width calculation with string width calculation and truncation. CSS ellipsis was also very friendly to...![afterscriptexecute Event]()
afterscriptexecute Event
Fellow Mozillian Daniel Buchner, curator of the X-Tag project and clever developer who showed us how to detect dom node insertions using CSS animations, recently showed me a new JavaScript feature I'd never heard of: the
SCRIPTelement's afterscriptexecute event.
