Archive for June, 2011

How do JavaScript closures work? – Stack Overflow. JavaScript is an amazing tool, as evidenced by not only its explosion the past few years, but also the sheer number of highly technical blog articles and posts like these coming out. Closures in JavaScript are often a topic of discussion. It’s often very confusing to those [...]

Bug 312156 – implement text-overflow: ellipsis from CSS3 text. Straight from Bugzilla@Mozilla: Gecko now supports text-overflow:ellipsis! While not a major breakthrough, I really like that Mozilla has incorporated this change. Truncation and hiding overflow gets the job done, but it’s not nearly as graceful as the best use case for each scenario. If you’re not [...]

Announcing GitHub for Mac – GitHub. I don’t know if I’ve been living under a rock or what, but I had no idea this was in the pipeline. I’ve been using git for certain projects for a while on github, but still use SVN for a number of reasons we don’t need to get into [...]

CSS Lint. This caused a bit of controversy yesterday. I first found out about the concept of “lint” when I started working with JavaScript and integrated JSLint into my workflow. Lint tools flag suspicious usage of the language at hand and tell you about it. This includes both warnings and errors in your work. It [...]

WordPress › Markdown on Save « WordPress Plugins. I’ve been a fan of Markdown for quite some time, but never took the jump to fully implementing it on any of my sites. I always had this nagging issue of ‘what if I want to switch back?’ and I simply continued writing my posts in TextMate [...]

New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5: position:fixed, overflow:scroll, new input type support, web workers, ECMAScript 5 | David B. Calhoun – Developer Blog. All of you (us) Apple fans were super excited about the software that got announced yesterday, but a perhaps bigger issue to keep in mind is: how is this going to effect [...]

HTML Email Boilerplate v0.4. I’m a huge fan of boilerplates… for studying. I’m even more a fan of boilerplates that realize their place and provide the service of solid documentation. HTML email is ugly. Sure, there are some experts in that field that are really doing some magical things, but every time an HTML email [...]

Modernizr 2. This is some super fantastic news! Modernizr has been long respected as an invaluable feature detection toolkit for modern front end development. It’s made its way into such distributions as HTML5 Boilerplate and is part of many a front-ender’s personal framework (mine included). Just this week, Modernizr 2 arrived. There are a bunch [...]