• Why buzzwords like HTML5 are useful

  But I think there’s actually a very good reason why we should, in fact, embrace the term “HTML5” as an overarching buzzword for this latest round of web standards and specifications. Our industry has proven on several occasions that we don’t get excited about new, interesting, and useful technologies and concepts until such a buzzword is in place.

  Posted: February 2nd, 2011 ˑ  Comments Closed
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• Using Closures in Javascript to pass parameters to setTimeout()

  TweetFor the home page of my site I wanted to cause certain divs to fadeIn using jQuery after varying amounts of time. In javascript we can use setTimeout() to schedule an arbitrary function call for some point in future. However the function works differently between Firefox and Internet Explorer (MSIE). In FireFox, you would do ...

  Posted: July 30th, 2010 ˑ  Comments Closed
  Filled under: Coding, Geeking