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Maybe you’ve heard of things like Pngcrush before which supposedly does an amazing job at optimizing png files, but then when you go check it out it turns out it’s this nerdy command line tool with crappy documentation and it …

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Keep Margins Out of Link Lists

When building a menu or other list of links, it’s generally a good practice to use display: block; or display: inline-block; so that you can increase the size of the link target. The simple truth: bigger link targets are easier …

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Google CDN Naming Conventions (and You)

You’ve seen this before:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script>

This is a way you can load a JavaScript library like jQuery directly from Google’s CDN (Content Delivery Network). You can get quick copy/paste access to these from ScriptSrc.net.

See in that above …

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What is Cross Site Scripting or XSS?

I think the name “cross site” is confusing. It’s easy to hear that and think it involves code on one website attacking code on another website. That’s not what it is. Not to mention its unfortunate “true” acronym.

It simply …

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My Slides from the jQuery Summit

At this year’s jQuery Summit I gave a mostly-totally-revised version of my talk “Solving Common Client Requests with jQuery” that I originally gave at the Bay Area jQuery Conference earlier this year.

I always think slides are a little weird …

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