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Typography for web designers has not really been a hot topic simply because for the longest time we have been limited to a very basic subset of fonts. A bunch of alternative ‘hacks’ came about like text replacement, IFR which eventually became sIFR and more. These solutions for relied on some CSS trickery, dynamic generation via a back-end language such as PHP or Python or using Flash. While it gave designers more freedom it just never felt right.

Thanks to CSS3 …

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Cascading Style Sheets are one of the core web technologies that are going through some big changes. The CSS specification has become modular consisting of around 26 modules that range from the new selectors to web fonts and media queries. One of the new selectors I stumbled on is the new :target pseudo selector. In this article I will be looking at how we can put this selector to use as we build a stylish FAQ widget. Through the course …

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Quite some time ago a wrote a plugin for Google Chrome that allowed you to quickly search the jQuery API. Since the initial release I made some updated but, for the most part, it has been dormant for some time now. One of the reasons it has remained dormant is because of the ‘hack’ I had to imply to search and retrieve results from the live jQuery API.

To search the jQuery API I used the Google Ajax Search API using …

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Often times when you load content dynamically via Ajax into a page, you want the newly added elements to exhibit the same or similar behaviors and properties then those already on the page. Other times you have a large amount of DOM elements you need to add event listeners to. For the first scenario developers will often result to ‘re-instantiate’ the event binding in the callback function of the Ajax call and for the second scenario will loop through each element and …

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At a recent conference I attended the topic of HTML5 came up at a Q&A session with Andy Budd, John Resig, Jonathan Snook, Joe Stump and Dustin Diaz. The conversation quickly changed from the general topic of HTML5 and more specifically what is being called HTML5 these days. The term HTML5 is currently being used as an umbrella term for a bunch of new and emerging standards and API’s. Generally I do not think that is a bad thing.

As was …