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Jul 20

JavaScript Minification Part II #

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Variable naming can be a source of coding angst for humans trying to understand code.

SVG with a little help from Raphaël #

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Want to make fancy, interactive, scalable vector graphics (SVGs) that look beautiful at any resolution and degrade with grace?

Jul 6

Prefix or Posthack #

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Vendor prefixes: Threat or menace? As browser support (including in IE9) encourages more of us to dive into CSS3, vendor prefixes such as -moz-border-radius and...

Jun 22

Stop Forking with CSS3 #

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You may remember when JavaScript was a dark art. It earned that reputation because, in order to do anything with even the teensiest bit of...

Jun 8

Web Fonts at the Crossing #

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Everything you wanted to know about web fonts but were afraid to ask.

Apr 20

Better JavaScript Minification #

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Like CSS, JavaScript works best and hardest when stored in an external file that can be downloaded and cached separately from our site's individual HTML...

Mar 30

Infrequently Asked Questions of FAQs #

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We take FAQs for granted as part of our sites’ content, but do they really work, or are they a band-aid for poor content?

Mar 9

Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web #

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You’ve probably heard that Apple recently released the iPad. The absence of Flash Player on the device seems to have awakened the HTML5 vs. Flash debate.

Feb 23

Accent Folding for Auto-Complete #

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Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere.

Feb 9

The Problem with Passwords #

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Abandoning password masking as Jakob Nielsen suggests could present serious problems, including undermining a user’s trust by failing to meet a basic expectation.

Jan 26

Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I #

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Many of us think of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as an also-ran: fine for charts and tables, but not much else.

Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II #

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In Part II, dig deeper into the technology behind using SVG for your site design.

Nov 3

Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients #

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It's hard for clients to understand the true value of user experience research.

Oct 20

The Myth of Usability Testing #

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Usability evaluations are good for many things, but determining a team’s priorities is not one of them.

Sep 1

Get Ready for HTML 5 #

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Ready or not, here it comes. Despite the confusion surrounding its evolution, real-world HTML 5 is right around the corner.

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