December 2011
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jquery.animate-enhanced plugin →
Extend $.animate() to detect CSS transitions for Webkit, Mozilla and Opera and convert animations automatically. Compatible with IE6+
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The HTML5 'output' Element →
Coming in to the ever growing list of HTML5 tags you might not have heard of before is.. ‘output’. Richard Clark shows off what it’s for and how to work with it.
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GoDaddy Faces boycott over SOPA support →
Major Internet companies have formed a united front in their opposition to the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act. Well, almost. One exception has been the domain registrar GoDaddy. In a op-ed published in Politico shortly after SOPA was introduced in the House, GoDaddy applauded the bill and called opponents “myopic.”
Need to move my domains over to another domain registrar,...
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Chrome 15 Now World’s Most Popular Single Browser →
Chrome still hasn’t trumped IE or Firefox for browser supremacy but in terms of being the most popular version of a browser, Chrome 15 has scooped it. Chrome’s automatic updates seem to be a winning factor.
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Stop Internet Explorer from downloading CSS3PIE... →
This post shows how to prevent IE from downloading the PIE.htc file twice on the first page request, and how to prevent IE9+ from downloading it at all.
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Some HTML5 Resources Worth Checking Out →
As the weeks go by, I find tons of new developer resources, tools, and things worth looking into.
I wrote a similar roundup of JavaScript resources, so this time I’m covering stuff related to what we commonly call “HTML5″ (even though a lot of this stuff could easily fall under a “JavaScript” umbrella too).
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Tubular: YouTube Background Player jQuery Plugin →
Tubular is a jQuery plugin that lets you use a YouTube video as your page background. Just attach it to your BODY tag, specify a YouTube video ID and tell it the ID of your content wrapper.
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The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011 →
All hail the list post. The SpeckyBoy blog rounds up 50 choice jQuery plugins with aplomb. Includes the usual screenshots for each choice and certainly worth a quick scan.
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What You Need To Know About The HTML5 Slider... →
HTML5 brought a lot of new tags and new rules on how the old ones should be used. One of them is the range input element, or the slider. This control has been available in operating systems for decades, but is only now that it has found its way into the browser.
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What Is Happening To The jQuery Plugins Site? →
jQuery shuttered the popular jQuery plugins site due to accidental data loss caused by cleaning up spam. Now, Adam J Sontag explains what the site’s future is and how you, as a jQuery plugin creator, can help and be involved.
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Auto-Saving User Input In Your Forms With HTML5... →
Sisyphus.js is a handy JS library that can save ‘draft’ versions of forms on your Web site so that if a user accidentally reloads or loses the page, they can continue filling it in from where they left off. Smashing Magazine shows how to get it running.
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The Top 6 Trends in HTML5 in 2011 →
Dan Rowinski looks at the progress of HTML5 and browser technology standards through 2011. He gives a big thumbs up to mobile platforms, game developers, and the increasing maturity of tools from companies like appMobi and Sencha.
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JS Libs Deconstructed →
The Deconstructed series is designed to visually and interactively deconstruct the internal code of JavaScript libraries, including jQuery, Prototype and MooTools.
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JavaScript Libraries Now Used by 50% of Top 1m Web... →
Each month, W3Techs checks the top 1 million Alexa ranked Web sites and analyzes the technologies they use. For the first time, JavaScript library usage across them has reached the 50% mark (with jQuery taking 83.4% of that).
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“If you want to build a universal web application, you cannot avoid HTML5...”
– Pro HTML5 Programming Has Been Released (via binksthecat)