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Code I Like: Using Apache's .htaccess and mod_rewrite to Redirect All Traffic to "www"
I know I was talking about HTML/CSS and JavaScript when I started this series, but I never said anything about being exclusive to the presentation layer 🙂 And heck, there’s always room for Apache when I’m talking about technology…
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Some Internet Explorer Innovations You Probably Forgot About While Waiting for IE6 To Die
Lost in the past few years of IE6 based stagnation (and ensuing developer angst) is the fact that the Internet Explorer team have come up with some pretty cool enhancements to the way we build web sites over the past ten plus years. So, while we’re cheering on Firefox’s growing market share, hesitantly eying IE8…
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Say Hello to JavaScript’s Native getElementsByClassName
With the recent release of Firefox 3, we’ve now got a full fledged, mainstream browser that supports the long-awaited, often replicated, getElementsByClassName method. This is good news as we’ll all be just that much speedier as we ditch the various helper functions and go right into the browser for that functionality. The thing is, the…
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Best Lightweight Web Server for Serving Static Content?
Dear Internet, anyone out there have any experience with lightweight web servers that they’d like to share? We’re (meaning Cramah!) looking to set up an asset server to serve static assets like css, javascript, images, flash (destined for progressive downloads) and mp3s. We want to offload that kind of stuff from app servers as a…
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Using overflow:auto to Clear Floated Content in CSS
For a long time, I used something like <div style="clear:both"></div> or its class equivalent to clear floated content in layouts. I knew, at some level, there were better solutions, but as these things go– I had deadlines to meet, had a working solution and there was never any inducement to look for a new one.…