That unwanted thing that Google put in your top menu bar? That bothers you, too? Can't find where to turn it off? That's because they wanted to hide it from you.
chrome://flags - put that in your address bar.
Dropdown menus may seem like something that falls under the "solved problem" category, but they can be surprisingly tricky. Tutorials that you find online will usually walk you through a very simple example that assumes markup that you never have. This will not be that. We're going to talk about the theory behind building a drop down so that you can better reason your way through the mess of markup that you're given.
If you're working with Drupal and your requirements are outside the...
One of the first discoveries I ever made in web development was that CSS hex values that were all the same number would always give me some shade of grey. #444 was dark, almost black. #ccc was light, perfect for form borders. Not long after I discovered that Photoshop wouldn't accept these values and would make me type in all 6 characters - #444444, #cccccc.
Sometime after that I discovered how to tap into a shade somewhere between #eee and #fff, just a barely perceptible off-white with...
I've recently finished up a project here at the job that gave me a blank check as far as writing the front end code was concerned. It was among the most blissful Drupal projects I've ever worked on, as my boss did all of the Drupal stuff, and I wrote all the code. It was heaven.
So, there were a lot of requests for some cool javascript features, and rather than reaching for the plugin drawer, I decided to write most of them from scratch. The main feature pages are mostly like this. The...
If you haven't seen this yet, it's a clip taken from yesterday's press event for the new Microsoft tablet. Dude launches Internet Explorer to show us around the browsing experience, but the thing immediately locks up. It's not just slow but completely frozen, and after about 20 seconds when he realizes that he's not going to be able to demo anything else he has to go swap it out for another device to get on with the presentation. Awkward!
Anyway, there's so many things that we (the royal...