This is a quick beginner-level overview of the different CSS position values. In a nutshell: relative allows you to “nudge” and leaves the element’s original position in the page flow. Absolute and fixed allow for exact placement of elements and …
In this last poll, we asked:
In the next 10 years, will there be a serious alternative to CSS?
Of over 9,000 votes so far, the majority are of the opinion that there will not be…
Good read from Nicolas Gallagher. Among the gems:
Class names cannot be “unsemantic”. Whatever names are being used: they have meaning, they have purpose.
…When Twitter Bootstrap first came out, I rewrote the compiled CSS to better reflect how I
Dave and I talk shop with Doug Neiner, whom I consider one of the smartest people I know. Doug is on the jQuery team and works for a company based around jQuery, so the topic of JavaScript comes up a …
Polyfill hero Scott Jehl has a new one for the theoretical <picture> element. The idea behind this new element is to solve the very real need to serve images of the appropriate size based on the browser window size. I’m …
Just gonna clear up a little thing here that I’ve seen people struggle with a few times. There are two different kinds of conditional comments for Internet Explorer that have slightly different syntaxes: Downlevel Hidden and Downlevel Revealed (microsoft …
Dave and I were joined by Ethan Marcotte and I bet you can guess what we talked about. That’s right ShopTalkers, it’s a full episode of responsive web design goodness, from the basics to the newer challenges developers are facing …
I love Allan and Steve from LessEverything. I was just recently at my third trip to LessConf, which is a really fun web startup oriented conference. The fellas are at it again already, throwing a new conference called LessMoney. From …
For the functions.php file:
function year_shortcode() {
$year = date('Y');
return $year;
}
add_shortcode('year', 'year_shortcode');Use [year] in your posts.…
As in, the number of keys.
function objectSize(the_object) {
/* function to validate the existence of each key in the object to get the number of valid keys. */
var object_size = 0;
for (key in the_object){
if (the_object.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
Here’s the rub: when you load JavaScript from a third party you should do it asynchronously. …
