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Back to blog 101!
As you can see Position Absolute changed of skin a bit. Unfortunately since last December, I had less time for the site and I decided to go back to a simple blog. I will be posting more in-depth article about JS, CSS and mobile (I already have 2 articles near ready to ship), but a […]
Cedric Dugas
May 18, 2010
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In video: John Resig on Advanced Javascript to Improve your Web App
In February 2010 John Resig, the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library, spoke at the annual Future of Web Apps Miami conference. During this 25 minute talk John outlines many of the new features and ideas behind jQuery 1.4. Source from ThinkVitamin.
Cedric Dugas
April 7, 2010
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CSS3 transform is coming in a browser near you (even in IE)
There has been some cool developments lately on the use of CSS3 transform properties. First we have Dojo has announced that the next version of dojo.fx will support CSS3 transform. You can see the demo here. Another nice project, cssSandpaper is a js animation framework making the use of CSS3 transform easy. Check it out, […]
Cedric Dugas
April 6, 2010
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The 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps
Do you instinctively know them before looking at this video?
Cedric Dugas
March 30, 2010
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Form Validation Engine 1.6.4
Version 1.6.4 is now online. One major upgrade, you can now validate from any function in your script. You are no more bounded to the custom regex engine. And a minor update, you can now click on the bubble to make them disappear, in case they are in the way. Here how it works: In […]
Cedric Dugas
March 29, 2010
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In video: Optimizing your javascript!
If you are in a company that build corporate websites, chances are you probably never had to optimize your javascript. Websites in general have 3 or 4 ‘widget’ that in the end do not really slow down the page load. But when you start doing web applications, you start to feel the load you impose […]
Cedric Dugas
March 21, 2010
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Server change alert! position-absolute move to webfaction
For now more than a year position-absolute.com has been hosted by linode. Linode offer great unmanaged VPS hosting. This has really been beneficial for my own experience to delve in the Linux world and build my web server from scratch. Buuuutt the time comes when I don’t want to play in apache and mysql config […]
Cedric Dugas
March 20, 2010
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Give Internet Explorer 9 a test drive
Want to look at what is under the wheel for internet explorer 9? You can download a test drive at this address http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/. For now it is confirmed that IE9 will support addEventListener (lol) and border-radius, it score 55 on the Acid3 test. It was also said that IE9 will be GPU powered, from what […]
Cedric Dugas
March 20, 2010
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A call to all web developers, launching a twitter campaign to force webkit to implement a position fixed in mobile webkit
Hey guys, I need YOU for 2 minutes, Some of you guys might not know that it is impossible to have a fixed toolbar in mobile webkit, this is because we can’t fix anything to the gridview webkit produce. This is something we need if one day we really want to be a contender to […]
admin
March 20, 2010
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Rework, think you know how business work? Think again.
When I heard that Signals37 was launching another book, the first thing I did is run to the local Chapster to get it. If you do not know Signals37, you probably know one of their online product, like Basecamp (psssstt they also created ruby on rails). These guys have pretty strong opinions on how a […]
Cedric Dugas
March 13, 2010