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Archive for October, 2008

IE6 reading text colour for border colour!

In creating a particularly complicated styling for a project I'm working on, I've come across a corker of a bug in IE6.

The Future of JavaScript Libraries

Libraries have been a huge contributor to the surge in popularity of JavaScript in the last few years. JavaScript developers have had the cumbersome tasks lifted and have been able to get back to business in developing interesting solutions to interesting problems. I've been thinking about the next steps for JavaScript libraries, and I really would [...]

A Friday Meme: How did you get started?

This may well have been done before, who knows, but I came across a great question on Stack Overflow: how did you get started in computing?

jQuery *really* :visible

On a project I worked with Paul Irish on recently we found that we needed to asset whether an element was visible, but the :visible selector doesn't always do the job.

JS Bin for Collaborative JavaScript Debugging

The weekend before last I blitzed through an idea I had on the shelf for about 6 months and put it live under the name JS Bin.

Query String Aware JavaScript

As developers we know it's useful to read the query string (everything after the '?' in the URL) to allow for customisations. However, I didn't think I could read the query string in the script tag from within the JavaScript - until now.