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By David Walsh on July 28, 2022

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By David WalshFebruary 6, 2013
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Firefox OS
Firefox OS is all over the tech news and for good reason: Mozilla's finally given web developers the platform that they need to create apps the way they've been creating them for years -- with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Firefox OS has been rapidly improving...
By Landon SchroppMarch 16, 2015
Regular Expressions for the Rest of Us
Sooner or later you'll run across a regular expression. With their cryptic syntax, confusing documentation and massive learning curve, most developers settle for copying and pasting them from StackOverflow and hoping they work. But what if you could decode regular expressions and harness their power? In...

By David WalshNovember 3, 2010
HTML5’s window.postMessage API
One of the little known HTML5 APIs is the window.postMessage API. window.postMessage allows for sending data messages between two windows/frames across domains. Essentially window.postMessage acts as cross-domain AJAX without the server shims. Let's take a look at how window.postMessage works and how you...
By David WalshDecember 9, 2009
iPhone-Style Passwords Using MooTools PassShark
Every once in a while I come across a plugin that blows me out of the water and the most recent culprit is PassShark: a MooTools plugin that duplicates the iPhone's method of showing/hiding the last character in a password field. This gem of...