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Jakob Nielsen: Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well
Large, rectangular menus group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain users' choices.
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Google's Javascript PDF Viewer is Embeddable
You can click this link to convert .doc to pdf online with on pdfcoding.com http://www.pdfcoding.com/online/pdf/convert-word-to-pdf/.I solved the convert .doc to pdf online with online problems from here. It makes me happy is cost me a little money.It's Convenient.
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Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)
From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.
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ClojureScript Core.async Todos
Edit: The following post is still a great way to learn about how core.async works. However, it is not a good example of how to write a web application unless you are just exploring and having fun. There are many good times to be had playing with core.async and I highly recommend giving the examples in this post a try.
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More info about synonyms at Google (2010)
Steve Baker, an engineer in the search quality group at Google, just did a nice post about synonyms on the Google blog. A lot of people seem to think that Google only does simple-minded matching of…
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How Javascript Prototypal Inheritance Really works
Everywhere on the web we read that Javascript has prototypal inheritance. However Javascript only provides by default a specific case of prototypal inheritance with the new operator. Therefore, most of the explanations are really confusing to read. This article aims to clarify what is prototypal inheritance and how to…
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Native image lazy-loading for the web
In this post, we’ll look at the new loading attribute which brings native <img> and <iframe> lazy-loading to the web!. For the curious, here’s a ...
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Opera 11 goes final
Get the latest information about our desktop browser direct from the Opera Desktop team.
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Migrating to React’s New Context API
Let's compare the before/after of React's new context API.
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Making my bookshelves clickable
You can make regions of an image clickable with a number of techniques, from overlaying an SVG that contains onclick JavaScript handlers all the way to using image maps. I love this idea. I started to think about how I could create an image of my bookshelves that you could click to learn more about each book I am…
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Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes
This is a post I've been meaning to write for the last 7 years. In the circumstances it might be more of a eulogy than a birth announcement but since the sub...
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De-Anonymization via Clickjacking in 2019
This blog post is about my journey to understand the current practice of de-anonymization via the clickjacking technique whereby a malicious website is able to uncover the identity of a visitor, including his full name and possibly other personal information. I don’t present any new information here that isn’t already…
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Why host and write a blog?
Jon Udell is blogging less . Gosh, so am I . There are loads of ways to talk to the world, new alternatives every day it seems. Is this thing, you know, over?
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I Added SVG Maps to My Travel Posts
Quick overview of a new blog feature.
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Understanding React Compiler
Cache all the things. How React Compiler works under-the-hood.
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Web apps are better than no apps
There’s a certain community in tech that’s very vocal about their preference toward native apps. I share that sentiment, yet sometimes people take this …
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Dapps
A friend asked me at breakfast this week “what gets you excited in crypto these days?” I answered “Dapps.” If the second half of 2016 and all of 2017 was about raising capital to fund development efforts (and speculating on all of that), then it sure feels like 2018 is the year we start getting […]
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JavaScript private class fields considered harmful
Today I mourn. What am I mourning? Encapsulation. At least in my projects. As a library author, I’ve decided to avoid private class fields from now on and gradually refactor them out of my existing libraries. Why did I make such a drastic decision? It all started a few days ago, when I was building a Vue 3 app that…