Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point
Mat Marquis keeping us up to date on the responsive images hot drama. Good reminder at the end about not picking sides. …
ShopTalk Episode 18
With ol’ Mean Gene Crawford! We talk about crazy clients, responsive images, health, and all kinds of other shoptalk. Thanks to Mijingo for sponsoring this episode.…
Support Tabs in Textareas
Normally the tab key moves to the next focusable thing. This inserts a tab character in instead.
HTMLTextAreaElement.prototype.getCaretPosition = function () { //return the caret position of the textarea
return this.selectionStart;
};
HTMLTextAreaElement.prototype.setCaretPosition = function (position) { //change the caret #111: Get Yourself Preprocessing in Just a Few Minutes
There is nothing to be afraid about in this brave new world of preprocessing. Native apps make it so easy that it should be a vital part of any modern workflow. In this video we have a simple project in …
Which responsive images solution should you use?
There are a bunch of techniques going around for dealing with responsive images lately. That is, solutions to help us serve the right image for the occasion (e.g. size of screen and bandwidth available). They all do things a bit …
Remove LI Elements From Output of wp_nav_menu
You can remove or change the <ul> container that you get by default with wp_nav_menu (codex) through parameters, but you can’t remove the <li> elements that wrap each menu item. This is how you can actually remove them:…
Opt-in Typography
I recently heard Chris Eppstein give a talk (slides) about creating better stylesheets and using SASS to do it. There were a couple of surprising bits in there, one of which was about “opt-in typography.” The idea was …
Remove Width and Height Attributes From Inserted Images
When you upload an image through the WordPress media uploader and then insert it into the editor, it comes with width and height attributes. These are normally desirable, as it assists the browser in making the appropriate room for the …
ShopTalk Episode 17
Another RAPIDFIRE show where Dave and I answer as many listener questions as we possibly can. …
Autofill City & State from Zip Code with Ziptastic
Most address fields on web forms ask for city, state, and zip code (or city and post code, outside of the US). But as us nerds often lament, city and state are redundant with zip code. Or at least they …
Create Data URI’s
These can be useful for embedding images into HTML/CSS/JS to save on HTTP requests, at the cost of maintainability. More information. There are online tools to do it, but if you want your own very simple utility, here’s some PHP …