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We had a list of links that wouldn’t sit still. The client would occasionally change the links, including some to PDF files. To accommodate users, we added a link to Adobe Reader. But when the list had no PDFs, the Reader link became superfluous. Conventional wisdom would have left the Reader link on the page [...] |
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Building a useful not-found search results page |
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Big trucks, nothing found I once worked with a client who sold trucks. Big trucks. Trucks so big that their “light” vehicles regarded my car as a speed bump. And they sold plenty of them. The first set of data was a 8MB, pipe-delimited text file that, I was told, could change daily. Writing a [...] |
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Using JavaScript to populate select lists through the ages |
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When two different clients had the same problem, I knew a bit of portable code would solve both. But would it work next year? |
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When iOS interprets data as phone numbers |
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I caught my test iPhone scanning web pages for phone numbers when it offered to add longitude to my address book. It happens after the HTTP transaction, so it’s completely automatic. But when iPhones get it wrong, how do you set things right? |
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How to disable WordPress comments with MySQL |
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Comments on blog posts are a common part of online conversations. But they don’t apply to every page on a site, and can cause unnecessary page (and inbox) clutter. How do you quickly turn off people’s ability to comment on pages? |
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CSS button recipe |
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Making clickable text stand out from non-clickable text has been a staple of the web since the web was called the mesh. How do you make a button look tappable — without graphics? By using CSS3. |
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Browsers read resources as Asian characters |
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What would cause a browser to misread CSS and JavaScript? When a file says UTF-8, but means UTF-16, unexpected problems occur. |
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Assistive text vs. IE7 |
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What happens when Internet Explorer 7 encounters “hidden” text? The affect is different in most other browsers, but requires a less obvious design solution. |
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Validate email with regex in PHP |
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Did a user enter a valid email address, or just a bunch of letters and numbers? Learn how to check emails in PHP with this handy function. |
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HTML’s rel attribute describes what kind of hyperlink we’re looking at, or how the linked material relates to the content at hand. But using it isn’t as simple as it first appears. Learn how it works and read on for more references. |
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