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Really Great: Social bookmarking at Techcrunch
I discovered a nice piece of javascript this weekend visiting TechCrunch. When you hover an article image it makes a text appear telling you to drag the image to share it. Upon dragging it, a pop-in window appears and you can drop the item in some social sharing options.
Have a look!
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Test Swarn in Alpha
A nice Contribution from Mozilla Labs:
“JavaScript Testing Does Not Scale. The project allows developers all over the world to contribute their browser to a swarm that continuously tests code. ”
More information here.
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Prettymobile, framework for Iphone friendly website
One of my friend recently launched a really cool framework that makes it easy to create Safari mobile friendly website. Unfortunately it is only compatible with Safari mobile, but this is cool nonetheless.
“prettyMobile is an iPhone/iTouch website development toolkit. It provides you will all the basics you need to make a mobile version of your website. It makes extensive use of CSS transformations making sure the animations will be as smooth as they can be. Plus, it’s only 13kb gzipped and minified.”
You need Safari4 or an Iphone to look at the demo.
The project page.
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Form engine validation 1.3.9.5 with prompt positionning and ajax submit
I have been working hard on getting 1.4 out of the door, this is the latest development I made, and a small bonus in this article, the geekiest thing you ever saw!
I will create demos and more documentation about these features soon. I didn’t have time lately, but they are already up for grabs in the project page.
Validation prompt positioning
Positioning is not perfect, it is a good start but much work is needed to have it working in every situation, when you call the plug-in on the DOM ready, change this setting.
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$("#formID").validationEngine({
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promptPosition: "topRight", // OPENNING BOX POSITION, IMPLEMENTED: topLeft, topRight, bottomLeft, centerRight, bottomRight
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success : false,
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failure : function() {
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})
Ajax Submit
This is a cool feature that I wanted to implement for sometimes now…
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Firefox can now detect multi touch screen operations
Mozilla recently added a nice little feature in Firefox, if you have a laptop with a touch screen, you can now use it to perform basic task directly in the browser. It looks really nice and I can’t wait to test it out…well when I have a touch screen… More information here, and all the javascript used in these demos here.
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Friday video: Facebook leaking your personal informations
There is a nasty “bug” in Facebook that is allowing anyone to retrieve your personal informations only by visiting a malicious website. You can have more informations on this here.
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Really Great: Desandro.com jQuery menu execution
In this “Really great” edition we have the Desandro jquery menu which is really a treat to watch. It combines jQuery techniques to create a nice animated menu.
This is the kind of concept that really shows how powerful jQuery can be with a good execution. Have a look at the code, it is not really a complicated script, it just combines the right effects. In fact, every articles from Desandro is a visual treat, his website is a must!
Kudos.
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5 most important things I learned in 5 years of front-end development
I have been doing websites professionally for roughly 5 years now. I think I learned quite a few important things down the road. This article is more intended for beginners but I would love to hear what others front-enders think.
Indent and wrap your CSS
Update: Reading the comments, I will not recommend to indent your CSS anymore, but please make easy and readable CSS.
I started indenting CSS 3 years ago and for me this is now a life breaker. I can never go back to the old and boring CSS style on one line. Indenting makes your CSS less confusing, when you look at indented CSS you understand visually your html structure. Yes, Firebug will tell you the line where there is a bug. Indenting will tell…
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Jquery form validation 1.3.9 with AJAX validation
I am proud to announce that the Ajax validation for my form engine is ready to go. By the way I am also proud to say this plugin had a small line in a recent smashing magazine article!
This is a major shift in the plugin structure, everything is open, this enable a lot of possibility but please understand that there could be some minor bugs. I am still tracking frameworks bugs, this is why this is not called 1.4. The CSS styles are also revamped with a more 2.0 feel. You can grab the new version here.
AJAX validation
This functionality is quite simple to integrate, in your class attribute add: ajax[ajaxUser]
It should be the last item to validate in your validate[], while this is not…
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The IE team speaks HTML5 on W3c List, better now than never?
Microsoft finally decided to share the IE team thoughts on HTML5, unfortunately their feedbacks are mostly negative, and are a bit late for some elements they are arguing.They review a lot of “established part” of the recommendation, and would they have joined the discussion before this point, most of their feedback would have not been necessary today.
It is unfortunate that they do not speak about canvas, audio and video tags. These tags are a major update over the HTML4 specs. Some people (including me) think that they will not implement these tags because of the competition it would provide to Silverlight, which they have been trying to bring to the global market for years.
Actually saying that they will not implement these would be a…
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Some Tweets
- looked at bell and videotron for a tv network solution, full of hidden rules, went with shaw direct @ShawDirect_News , honest service
- interesting post about Cross-domain localStorage http://bit.ly/9dfW8F
- back to work after 2 week of renovation on my house, glad to be back at doing javascript..
- traded my computer for this http://bit.ly/cCKVbr for 2 week, want my computer back..
- kind of old, bit I like it http://www.thereisnopagefold.com/
- I really have a love/hate relationship with the E texteditor, so good but so bad at the same time
