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According to the luminaries of the web design world, the “mobile web” doesn’t exist. Stephen Hay said it, Smashing Magazine said so and Jeremy Keith amongst many others. Except, it does. Not as a technical reality, but as a dream of marketing and overly excited managers who believe in magical powers…

Designing a programming system for understanding programs Bret Victor / September 2012 Here's a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming? Khan Academy recently launched an online environment for learning to program. It offers a set of tutorials based on the JavaScript and…

As speakers like Brad Frost and Karen McGrane have maintained for some time, the future CMS wants to treat content like water , to be poured into different containers. But amidst this discussion of our content’s future, there’s little talk about the future form of the containers themselves. Take a…

Posted on August just got a little hotter, because jQuery 1.8 final code is here! You can pick up the code from jQuery’s CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.0.min.js (compressed and minified, for production) http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.0.js (uncompressed, for debugging) As usual, the Google…

DouglasCrockford www.crockford.com JavaScript is theworld's most misunderstood programming language . Some believethat it lacks the property of information hiding becauseobjects cannot have private instance variables and methods. But thisis a misunderstanding. JavaScript objects can have private…

Object-Oriented Javascript Published 18:20 on 24 May, 2006 Update October 2010: I'm currently following up this article with some notes about development method, and then again with a more in-depth look at current practices for object-oriented JavaScript. Hopefully, this should serve to correct some…

HTML5 WebSocket: A Quantum Leap in Scalability for the Web By Peter Lubbers & Frank Greco, Kaazing Corporation (This article has also been translated into Bulgarian .) Lately there has been a lot of buzz around HTML5 Web Sockets, which defines a full-duplex communication channel that operates…

I was helping Laura (a developer who works with me) learn about cross-browser debugging this week, which got me excited to share my process. The first principal is simply: Work with CSS, not against it. CSS has an underlying design and when you work with it, with the natural flow of how CSS is meant…

GF1 Field Test — 16 Days in the Himalayas — by Craig Mod The GF1 is a near perfect travel camera. For 16 days I lived with it strapped to me as I climbed through the valleys of central Nepal up to Annapurna Base Camp at 4,200 meters. I covered the camera in sweat. I hit it against rocks…

Last year, in HTML5, ARIA Roles, and Screen Readers in March 2010, I took a look at how then current screen readers behaved with some of the HTML5 section elements and related WAI-ARIA document and landmark roles . Now that the major screen readers have all seen some significant updates, and both…

I am plagiarizing myself! I originally wrote this article for my friend Moses (of Egypt) to be published in the .Network magazine’s inaugural issue, which coincided with this year’s Cairo Code Camp . Since the article turned out well and there was no corresponding online version, we agreed it would…

When jQuery fires a callback function, whether it is an event handler, an each iterator, or a filter function, it will normally give you a DOM element as the function’s context, accessible via the this keyword. It’s common practice to subsequently wrap this in jQuery(...) resulting in a newly…

Yesterday, Tim Van Damme posted a redesign mockup of Instapaper’s iPad app on Dribbble: Last night for some reason I wanted to try to redesign Instapaper, just for fun. […] Note: This is not me criticizing the current interface for Instapaper. Marco did a terrific job with it, and it is hands down…