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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...![Create Spinning Rays with CSS3 Animations & JavaScript]()
Create Spinning Rays with CSS3 Animations & JavaScript
Thomas Fuchs, creator of script2 (scriptaculous' second iteration) and Zepto.js (mobile JavaScript framework), creates outstanding animated elements with JavaScript. He's a legend in his own right, and for good reason: his work has helped to inspire developers everywhere to drop Flash and opt...
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CSS Selection Styling
The goal of CSS is to allow styling of content and structure within a web page. We all know that, right? As CSS revisions arrive, we're provided more opportunity to control. One of the little known styling option available within the browser is text selection styling.
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WebSocket and Socket.IO
My favorite web technology is quickly becoming the WebSocket API. WebSocket provides a welcomed alternative to the AJAX technologies we've been making use of over the past few years. This new API provides a method to push messages from client to server efficiently...
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Generate Dojo GFX Drawings from SVG Files
One of the most awesome parts of the Dojo / Dijit / DojoX family is the amazing GFX library. GFX lives within the dojox.gfx namespace and provides the foundation of Dojo's charting, drawing, and sketch libraries. GFX allows you to create vector graphics (SVG, VML...
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LightFace: Facebook Lightbox for MooTools
One of the web components I've always loved has been Facebook's modal dialog. This "lightbox" isn't like others: no dark overlay, no obnoxious animating to size, and it doesn't try to do "too much." With Facebook's dialog in mind, I've created LightFace: a Facebook lightbox...
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HTML5’s window.postMessage API
One of the little known HTML5 APIs is the window.postMessage API.
window.postMessageallows 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 howwindow.postMessageworks and how you...![Introducing MooTools HeatMap]()
Introducing MooTools HeatMap
It's often interesting to think about where on a given element, whether it be the page, an image, or a static DIV, your users are clicking. With that curiosity in mind, I've created HeatMap: a MooTools class that allows you to detect, load, save, and...
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JavaScript Copy to Clipboard with Branding
I published a post a year ago detailing how you can copy to the clipboard using JavaScript. The post was very popular and why would it be? Copying content from a webpage without needing to use the default browser functions is awesome. One trend I've...
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MooTools 1.3 Browser Object
MooTools 1.3 was just released and one of the big additions is the Browser object. The Browser object is very helpful in that not only do you get information about browser type and browser versions, you can gain information about the user's OS, browser plugins, and...











