Aspect ratios in CSS
The aspect ratio describes a relationship between the width and the height of something. Say, we have an image that is 400 pixels wide and 300 pixels high.
read full articleThe five features I like most about Opera (and Presto is none of them)
Last week’s announcement of Opera dropping their rendering engine Presto and switching to WebKit stirred the world of web development quite a lot. At first I was like, no, they can’t do that, Opera is the best browser of the world, that will be lost!, but then I started to think about why Opera is the best browser to me.
read full articleMr Parse-Float and his co-workers
Mr Parse-Float is a nice fella. He works in a number factory, where he turns strings into numbers. He has some co-workers, called Mr Implicit-Conversion and Mrs Number-Constructor. They all have the same task, but do it differently.
read full articleOn the phone with Mom – Throttle and Delay DOM-Events in Javascript
Imagine you’re on the phone with your mom and she keeps on talking. And talking. And talking. And you keep on listening and listening. And listening. Every now and then your mom will throw in a “you still there?” to which you will murmur “uh huh”.
read full articleBetter Javascript: Updates on the address book
Last night I met Jennifer again and apart from being hot it turns out she’s pretty perceptive as well. When she read my previous article, she objected to some aspects of my address book.
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