Reading Time: 2 minutesA good long while ago, I discovered that contenteditable was a pretty nifty attribute to play with, especially when you get CSS involved. Then I stumbled upon the scoped attribute which you can apply to a <style>block, which isolates styles … Continue reading
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Making Content-editing easier with an editable jQuery plugin
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m written in the past on how cool contenteditable is, and what the potential usages are. Especially once you mix it with the scoped attribute, you can turn contenteditable into a pretty powerful component of an editing application of some … Continue reading
Contenteditable, CSS, Scoped, and advanced in-browser editing
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve said before and I’ll say again that contenteditable is one of the coolest attributes you can apply to an element. This lil’ gem originates from Microsoft, of all places, and has been there since IE5.5. Well, the other browsers … Continue reading
CSS3: Structural Pseudo-Class Patterns
Reading Time: 4 minutesCSS3 offers a ton of brand new ways that you can select elements in ways we’ve never thought of before. Today I want to focus on exclusively the structural pseudo-classes, which are ways of selecting elements based on the document … Continue reading
HTML5, SDL Tridion, and a dab o’ jQuery
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt Tahzoo, we pretty much shoot for HTML5 websites 100% of the time; the only time the project isn’t HTML5 is if the client explicitly says so. We have a current client whose HTML5 site also required some fun Ajax … Continue reading
Konami Edit: a jQuery plugin for [Contenteditable]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI was getting frustrated on a project with having to test my CSS with different line-lengths of content and whatnot. So I decided to write a little tiny jQuery plugin to help me test out my web pages a bit … Continue reading
Clever CSS Tricks: using :target to create accordions
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an interview with Jacob Gube from Six Revisions on the subject of exciting developments in CSS3, Eric Meyer said …the power to describe Web 2.0 designs in CSS is insignificant compared with the power to select every third table … Continue reading
Using HTML5 LocalStorage to Protect Forms: Part 2, the jQuery plugin
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver four months ago, I posted on how to use the HTML5 localstorage API to protect forms. Quite curiously, it was five days before someone else wrote an article on the concept on Smashing Magazine. (I won’t link to it … Continue reading
HTML5 and Geolocation: Finding Yourself (Part One of Many)
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf there’s something in the HTML5 technology suite whose potential is inversely proportionate to its simplicity, it’s geolocation. The API is very simple and the opportunities haven’t begun to get tapped. My boss over at Tahzoo has a few mind-blowing … Continue reading
HTML5 contenteditable and CSS
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy absolute favorite HTML5 attribute is “contenteditable”. It makes the contents of the element editable. It’s an incredibly simple feature that has tons of potential for your website.In fact, I’ve already seen it paired with localStorage or Web SQL APIs … Continue reading