Monthly Archives: March 2009

Reducing JavaScript – Omitting Curly Braces

Edit: This “trick” is used in a lot of JavaScript compression tools or pre-made scripts, like Adobe Dreamweaver’s JavaScript roll-over images. Note: This is actually a JavaScript trick that was, I would think, never meant to be actually executable. Do … Continue reading

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Did you know empty tags in HTML were actually closed!?

As you know, in XHTML there is what we call self-closing tags, or empty tags if you want. One notable example is <img /> or <br />. However, since XHTML really is XML, <img></img> and <br></br> is also possible. Note: … Continue reading

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USB Key—Permission Denied; What to do

Have you ever searched forums a night long just to find stupid answers like “Did you restart, check your drive letter, etc.” because any OS would tell you that it cannot write to or format your USB key because the … Continue reading

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Cause you probably searched for it—Windows XP Tip

Yes it’s about XP. It’s old, but a lot of people still use it, and sometimes there’s some stuff that’s really deep in there. So, here’s the story. At work, I had this very annoying default that every explorer window … Continue reading

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Is Internet Explorer 8 really fast? What the test doesn’t tell.

Note: Some people might inadvertadly think I’m declaring Chrome as a superior browser. However, the reality is I’m only talking about speed. There’s dosens of reasons I don’t use Chrome myself as my everyday browser on Windows. Keep in mind … Continue reading

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Shorthand conditional statements

This article uses ECMAScript as its example language. See bellow for language-specific information. The shorthand conditional statement, or ?:, is also know as the ternary operator. Although it exists in virtually all programming languages, the conditional operator ?: remains a … Continue reading

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How the face of the web is changing—From 2004 to 2009

Statistics are rounded for stylistic reasons. In 2004, Google had 58% of the search market. Firefox had only gained 4% of the browser market and the best you could hope for is terms of web technology was what IE 6 … Continue reading

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Fake Bold >> More control

HTML has a few tricks up its sleeve and it stays a relatively difficult task to create accessible websites with it. Nevertheless, accessible HTML is probably the single most accessible content in the world. In any cases, one wrongfuly overlooked … Continue reading

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The Simpsons; The Standard American Family Now in HD

Although the Simpsons’ adventures are far from typical of everyone’s daily lives, the larger image around it certainly is. Somehow, the Simpsons have always represented what the average American family was and, more particularily, what it should be. Recently, the … Continue reading

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