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A Nuance of Preventing Default

One of the most common operations when assigning event handlers is to prevent the default action the event normally triggers.
In the case of an anchor for example, the click event of an anchor triggers the default behaviour of following the URI specified in the href attribute. So the browser’s default action when clicking the “Fluffy [...]

Be Lazy, Let the Browser Do the Work for You

Imagine you work for a company that has an online product catalog and that your job is to maintain the product images. Now imagine your boss comes to you and says, “here’s a list of a thousand products that need to have ‘40% off’ put on them, and we need it for tomorrow, noon.” So [...]

Microformats, English only?

Experiencing the Microformats growing pains first hand

Some of the best advice I’ve received

Fearest not and thou shalt learn

Embed me this

One of the web development community’s best kept secrets.

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