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Irregular Update, 24/Oct/2014

Another update! Wow! The past two weeks have all been on TodaysMeet Teacher Tools except for the afternoon I spent dealing with a hurt finger (not exactly badly hurt but I still can’t really use my right index finger to type, it’s annoying). And at some point in

forms

Excitement about HTML5: Forms

I shouldn’t imply that I don’t like HTML5. I don’t like certain parts of it—the redundant new elements that add no functionality and are of little use except to A List Apart. But other parts of the spec are very exciting. Forms, in particular, are getting

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JavaScript: Private Static Members, Part 2

Finally, it’s time to finish up the lesson on private static members and methods in JavaScript. Last time, I introduced the technique of creating and immediately executing a function, using parentheses. I talked a little about returning a function and storing it in a variable. 1. var myFunc = (function(

Browsers

Stop Supporting IE6

As a community, as a whole, web designers and developers need to stop supporting Internet Explorer 6. Now. Completely. I’ve been thinking a lot about browser compatibility as I’ve been working on Today’s Meet. My CSS is valid, but it doesn’t work quite right in IE6.

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User Interface: Be Nice!

A short post for a busy week. I just downloaded the Spore Creature Creator, and this file showed up on my desktop: 792248d6ad421d577132c2b648bbed45_scc_trial_na.exe. Why not “Spore Creature Creator Trial Install.exe”, or, if spaces aren’t your thing, “SporeCreatureCreatorTrialInstall.exe”? Either would be infinitely more meaningful

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Organizing CSS

Looking at WordPress themes usually makes me cringe. It’s as if there was a memo on semantic markup and the community of WP developers didn’t get it. Some themes waste kilobytes of HTML source on something that could be achieved with 75% less markup. Some use blatantly non-compliant