Category Archives: Web Related

Twitter User Feed jQuery Plugin

Posted on February 13, 2012 by brandonc

Ever needed to show you are really working really hard for your clients on your website? Tweet your hard work using the Twitter user feed plugin. http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/

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sessionStorage and localStorage

Posted on February 1, 2012 by brandonc

The main benefit of using HTML5′s sessionStorage or localStorage is it’s capacity to contain up to 5MB (or 60MB) of data depending on browser type and desktop/mobile browser. For mobile applications/websites, this may be particularly useful if (1) users have … Continue reading →

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Embedding Youtube and HTML5 Video Option

Posted on January 9, 2012 by brandonc

A couple of things I changed to make use of the new iframe code for embedding Youtube videos on the website. The new code supports both Flash and HTML5 video. Only users of supported browsers who opt into the Youtube … Continue reading →

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@fontface, Google’s WebFont Loader and Cufon

Posted on December 16, 2011 by brandonc

Have been trying to resolve the issue of FOUT (Flash of unstyled text) when using @fontface on IE. The best solution I found was to use Google’s WebFont loader. To not allow the default font to show at all before … Continue reading →

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Bing Map v7 Address Query using jQuery

Posted on November 25, 2011 by brandonc

How to initialise Bing map using an street address query. First reference the Bing library, keeping it as an external reference. They changed one of their JavaScript urls once and 404ed on me. There are references for both SSL and … Continue reading →

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Stylesheet for Print

Posted on November 11, 2011 by brandonc

Interesting and Useful article: http://designshack.net/articles/css/6-thinks-i-learned-about-print-stylesheets-from-html5-boilerplate/

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insertAdjacentHTML

Posted on November 10, 2011 by brandonc

Interesting article from http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/11/insertadjacenthtml-enables-faster-html-snippet-injection/ “On the computer that I used for testing, the innerHTML way of appending managed to append only slightly over 200 tweets in five full seconds. In contrast, the insertAdjacentHTML(“beforeend”, …) way of appending managed to append … Continue reading →

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Lazy Loading Asynchronous JavaScript

Posted on November 1, 2011 by brandonc

Useful article for keepsake, with a good dose of requirements that I like: Small. I don’t want a big mess for them to include on their sites. 10-15 lines, tops. Stand-alone. The environment is unknown, so we can’t rely on … Continue reading →

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Live website tracking

Posted on August 6, 2011 by brandonc

It’s seldom that I get excited enough about a product to actually write about it. Recently I signed up for http://chartbeat.com for about $10 bucks a month. It allows me to track up to 5 websites. What it does: How … Continue reading →

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