47 Keyboard Shortcuts That Work in All Web Browsers Each major web browser shares a large number of keyboard shortcuts in common. Whether you’re using Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, or Opera – these keyboard shortcuts will work in your browser. Each browser also has some of its own, browser-specific shortcuts, but ... Read more
I was invited to present a 10 minute “High Order Bit” at the Web 2.0 Conference. I decided to talk about the concept of less as a competitive advantage. Here’s the rough text (from memory) of my presentation. Less. I want to talk about the concept of less. And more specifically the idea of using ... Read more
Getting Real is all about starting from the user interface and customer experience and then building out. Visual design first, programming second. The more traditional process is starting from the abstract (documentation, diagrams, charts, etc.), coding a skeleton app, and then homing in on the real by finishing it up with an interface. We think ... Read more
The goal of software architecture is to minimize the human resources required to build and maintain the required system. The measure of design quality is simply the measure of the effort required to meet the needs of the customer. If that effort is low, and stays low throughout the lifetime of the system, the design ... Read more
Why humans should prove that they are humans by filling captchas? Lets bots prove that they are not bots with adding javascript to their user-agents! Anti-spam plugin blocks spam in comments automatically, invisibly for users and for admins. no captcha, because spam is not users' problem no moderation queues, because spam is not administrators' problem ... Read more
Debug javascript with Chrome tools: The Chrome WebKit Developer Console lets you view attached events for elements. Right click mouse on element => "Inspect element" (F12) => "Elements" tab => "Event Listeners" section; Debug javascript visually with extension: Visual Event 2 - javascript bookmarklet - shows all javascript events (on the Visual Event 2 page ... Read more
Axolotl can regenerate limbs, eyes, heart and part of the brain. Axolotl can also readily accept transplants from other individuals, including eyes and parts of the brain—restoring these alien organs to full functionality. In some cases, axolotls have been known to repair a damaged limb as well as regenerating an additional one, ending up with ... Read more
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There is no difference between .append() and .appendTo() functions except the syntax: But they both needed because of chaining and code readability: html: The same difference applies to: .prepend() vs .prependTo() .before() vs .insertBefore() .after() vs .insertAfter()