HTML5 is the greatest version of HTML ever! (Well, at least until the next awesome version comes out). I just learned how trivially easy it is to force downloads with HTML5. I was just trying to force a download of a PDF file because the customers need to sign it and send it back and
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This Could Be Your Website When I first started creating video backgrounds I was surprised to learn that making the video for the backgrounds was the hardest part. So as part of my new video series “Learn Responsive Web Design LiveLessons” I included a lesson on building video backgrounds. And it’s available for you to
If you answered yes to both these questions, then you’ll be thrilled to learn that my latest video series “Learning Responsive Web Design LiveLessons” will be out soon. This is a 12-lesson video series based on my book Sams Teach Yourself Responsive Web Design in 24 Hours. I am currently working on the final edits
The other day, I got this question about the meta charset tag in the mail: “Would you be so kind as to explain to me, in logical terms, how in 7 hecks does the presence of: <meta charset="utf-8"> is supposed to affect a ‘hacker attack’ in accordance to your book? I literally cannot imagine hackers caring much
I used to try to clip images using the CSS clip property, but that was so difficult that I typically gave up and got out my image editor. What is the point of spending four hours trying to force an image to clip in CSS when I can do the same thing in Acorn in
As I’ve been writing my next book on forgotten features of CSS, I have been coming across some really cool things. It’s been hard to keep up the writing as I get so excited about actually using the features that CSS provides. Today I was working on image-set() and in doing my testing I realized that my dual
Things are moving slowly, but they are moving. I have gotten the Bootstrap book code samples up on GitHub. So those of you who wanted to download them all at once, you now can. I’ll be adding the code from my other books to GitHub as soon as I can. If you notice an error
Okay, so Friday, Sunday… last week was pretty wacky for me. And I have nothing to show for it. 🙂 In other words, in my weekly review with my manager (me…) I had to say that while I did a lot of work last week, I can’t really show anything as completed. One client I
In LISTING 18.3 “CSS for a Responsive Form” (page 257) I include a position for the label of an input box to hide it from view. But the position values I used would cause the browser to create massive scrollbars both vertical and horizontal. The incorrect CSS is:
1 2 3 4 5 | label.inputbox { position: absolute; top: 9999px; left: 9999px; } |
This is easily corrected by positioning