One of the classic debates of the web industry: does a web designer have to know how to code? I say “yes”. However, there are a lot of compelling points made by those who say “no”. In this post I explore how personal values in respect to specialization and generalization inform the topic.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to interpolate or concatenate strings in dotLess (the .NET port of Less CSS), since it doesn’t use the same syntax as Less.js. I finally found that formatString("string {0} and {1}", @r0, @r1) will do it. I’ve written a couple of mixins as examples.
A list of jQuery plugins I have found incredibly useful while developing using jQuery. No slideshows here, only useful utilities and abstractions, from timers to templates. Suggestions are welcome!
A browser that doesn’t support a new HTML5 input type will change the type of any unrecognized input to text. This is good because it means it’s reasonably safe to use new HTML5 input types right now, even in old browsers. But this affects the DOM, and we might want to know what we originally wanted it to be in order to provide a fallback for validation or UI. This post covers a jQuery plugin that will return the HTML5 input type even if the browser doesn’t support HTML5.