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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...
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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...
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![HTML5 Placeholder Styling with CSS]()
HTML5 Placeholder Styling with CSS
Last week I showed you how you could style selected text with CSS. I've searched for more interesting CSS style properties and found another:
INPUTplaceholder styling. Let me show you how to style placeholder text withinINPUTelements with some unique CSS code. The CSS Firefox...![Record Text Selections Using MooTools or jQuery AJAX]()
Record Text Selections Using MooTools or jQuery AJAX
One technique I'm seeing more and more these days (CNNSI.com, for example) is AJAX recording of selected text. It makes sense -- if you detect users selecting the terms over and over again, you can probably assume your visitors are searching that term on Google...



