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    Clickjacking

    JavaScript security is a big business and for all of the right reasons.  JavaScript lets us do incredible things on the front end but some of those incredible things are for eval evil.  Spyjax used to be one of those evil things but browsers seem to...

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    Flexbox Equal Height Columns

    Flexbox was supposed to be the pot of gold at the long, long rainbow of insufficient CSS layout techniques.  And the only disappointment I've experienced with flexbox is that browser vendors took so long to implement it.  I can't also claim to have pushed flexbox's limits, but...

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    HTML5 Form novalidate

    I've been very skeptical when it comes to HTML5 form validation.  It's a nice addition, don't get me wrong, but let's be honest -- it's not very powerful and it could get in the way of the JavaScript validation you have in place.  If you want HTML5 form validation to...

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    Responsive Images: The Ultimate Guide

    Chances are that any Web designers using our Ghostlab browser testing app, which allows seamless testing across all devices simultaneously, will have worked with responsive design in some shape or form. And as today's websites and devices become ever more varied, a plethora of responsive images...

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    Accessibility Tip: Empty alt Attributes

    As mostly a self-taught developer, my impressions of best practices were self-formed, and over the years I've realized many of those impressions were incorrect or the standards associated with them had quickly changed.  One small but important practice is the usage of alt attributes on img tags, and I had thought...

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    Get Real Image Height and Width Dimensions

    One massive help provided by CSS in aiding developers to create responsive designs is max-width.  I always set img, iframe, and embed tags to max-width: 100% so that they aren't allowed bleed through their parent and stretch the page on mobiles, but I recently asked myself if it...

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    Create a CSS Flipping Animation

    CSS animations are a lot of fun; the beauty of them is that through many simple properties, you can create anything from an elegant fade in to a WTF-Pixar-would-be-proud effect. One CSS effect somewhere in between is the CSS flip effect, whereby there's...

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    6 Tips for Designing Crisp, Readable Icons

    After designing hundreds of vector icons that render beautifully at 14 pixels or less, I've learned a few things about designing crisp, readable icons. Here are a few of my secrets. How Vectors Become Pixels Before we start, let's chat a bit about how an...

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    Parallax Sound Waves Animating on Scroll

    Scrolling animations are fun. They are fun to create and fun to use. If you are tired of bootstrapping you might find playing with scrolling animations as a nice juicy refreshment in your dry front-end development career. Let's have a look how to create animating...

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    Scroll IFRAMEs on iOS

    For the longest time, developers were frustrated by elements with overflow not being scrollable within the page of iOS Safari.  For my blog it was particularly frustrating because I display my demos in sandboxed IFRAMEs on top of the article itself, so as to not affect my site's...