HTML5 introduces a couple of new attributes for implementing browser-based form validation. The pattern attribute is a regular-expression that defines the range of valid inputs for textarea elements... Read More
Intermediate
Cookies are the most used technology for storing data on the client side. My previous article, How to Deal with Cookies in JavaScript, explained how to perform CRUD operations with cookies using raw... Read More
Sometimes you need a nice effect to boost your website’s look and feel, and catch your visitors’ attention. There are many free and ready-to-use plugins out there that can enhance the... Read More
Whether you are a novice front end designer or an experienced web developer, every one of us has faced a situation where we write hundred lines of code and nothing seems to run as expected. If you... Read More
With all the talk of desktop, tablet, and mobile, there is another type of browser which tends to slip through the cracks – console browsers. In late 2012, Nintendo released it’s Wii U... Read More
Welcome to another article in the small and sweet functions series, in which I’d like to show you a neat abstraction called domStorage(), that provides a set of convenient functions for... Read More
Modular programming is used to break large applications into smaller blocks of manageable code. Module based coding eases the effort for maintenance and increases reusability. However, managing... Read More
In Getting Directions Using the Google Maps API, I explained how to create a service that lets a user find a route from one address to another. In this article, you’ll learn how to use the... Read More
Bower is a package manager for the browser. Developed by Twitter, and available via npm, it means the days of manually managing your client-side JavaScript packages could soon be a thing of the past.Read More
Making Ajax calls using the XmlHttpRequest object is a well established technique for generating dynamic server requests. However, Ajax does not allow the server to directly initiate data transfers... Read More
In Working with Geolocation and the Google Maps API you learned how to determine a user’s physical location and display it on a map. In this followup article, you’ll create a service that... Read More
One of today’s most used APIs is the Geolocation API. Geolocation allows an application to determine your physical coordinates, and tailor the application to you. This has the potential to... Read More
CoffeeScript has classes, but since CoffeeScript is just JavaScript, where do those classes come from? In this article we break down the JavaScript code which is output from a CoffeeScript class and... Read More
The fifth article in the small-and-sweet functions series is a follow up to the previous article, which showed you a simple function for creating an ISO datestamp. The previous article noted that... Read More
