When clicking on Facebook like buttons a popup is added (screenshot from Firefox) where people can add a comment to their like.
Make sure you leave at least 300 pixels to the right or this is cut off.
-webkit-tap-highlight-color
This webkit only CSS property is available on mobile Safari in both iOS and Android. It allows you to override the yellow highlight colour when a user taps a link or JavaScript clickable element.
This is a useful accessibility feature that lets users know a link...
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What browsers Google support can be very useful for client projects. Already having started phasing out support for IE6 they are only supporting IE8 and above for Google Plus accounts (presumably as XP use is still fairly high).
From their support page:
Supported browsers
Google pr...
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Traditionally the developers tool of choice, Firefox are making some pretty cumbersome decisions which can adversly affect project development. With IT managers berating the impact on rapid releases in corporates met with a near who cares attitude from Mozilla, there are also massive implications ...
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recent releases of node js, altough unstable, now come with windows executables (thanks to help from Microsoft) which means no more fiddling with cygwin to get it up and running on your machine.
How to run node
1. Download node.exe from http://nodejs.org/#download
2. Put this ...
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This is particularly useful in mobile development where it is more user friendly to use the default select options menu than a customised JavaScript dropdown, which are often hard to select from on a handset.
select
{
background: url(../images/ic...
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I've been using the fantastic mobile storage library Lawnchair in a recent Android project and got an "illegal access" error when running on a device (Samsung Galaxy S), which is caused by a JSON.parse null paramter.
To prevent this, add json2.js to your project:
&...
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Alt + click
This is a great little shortcut in Chrome for downloading a link's destination, rather than going to the page. Especially useful for downloading JavaScript files from frameworks or demos.
With less than 1000 days of Windows XP support, the end of development support for IE6 is within sight. But a 1000 days is a long time and we're likely to see a Chrome version number close to that by then.
So what can be done now?
Increase project costs if IE6 needs to be supported.
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When Facebook first launched the Open Graph protocol they used the domain opengraph.org and you added the following to your site:
<html xmlns:og="http://opengraph.org/schema/">
In what looks like an admin slip up, the domain is no longer registered to Facebook are is current...
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