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Design Patterns are invaluable in software development. They typically result from best practices that has been demonstrated to be the best way to solve common problems. They also help developers avoid common pitfalls that lead to bugs and generally, makes your code more readable and reusable.

Design patterns is no stranger in the world of JavaScript and developers employ many of the well known patterns as well as adding some that is uniquely it’s own. Today I am going to be looking at the …

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I just read an article from Louis Lazaris regarding the use of aside for pull quotes as apposed to blockquote. Having a read though the spec for both I definitely agree this is the better of the two elements to use for pull quotes. I am also very happy to see the spec for aside having been updated to more clearly define the use cases for this element as it was relatively unclear previously.

With that, I decided to look at …

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One of the ways to make a large amount of tabular data easier to read for the end user is to use alternating row colors. This technique is known as zebra tables and has been around for some time and serves it’s purpose very well.

To accomplish this, developers rely on JavaScript because of the dynamic nature of the tables. If your table was static, you could accomplish this using CSS because you could add a class on every odd row …

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Recently I posted two articles about one of the new official jQuery plugins called jQuery Templates here and here. Another of these plugins is the jQuery DataLink plugin (Download from GitHub). Essentially what the DataLink plugin does is create a two way, although you can configure it to be one-way only, link between a JavaScript object, a form and it’s elements. So what do I mean by this exactly? Well, it means that when any of the values in the form …

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Following on from my introduction to HTML5 article today I want to look at two new tags introduced in HTML5 namely, audio and video. While it does not sound like much, these two new additions is changing the way we think about multimedia on thew web. Previously if the topic of multimedia on the web came up there was a few technologies that came to mind, most notable Flash. Flash is the dominating force on the web when it comes to bringing …