Quick Tip: Notable New Features in Dreamweaver CS5
“If you’re a Twitter user, it was difficult not to be aware of Adobe’s CS5 global launch presentation. While they did an excellent job of promoting Photoshop and Flash, other applications, such as Dreamweaver, only received limited coverage. Nonetheless, take a look at some of the awesome new features in Dreamweaver CS5, slated to be released in mid-May.”
Quick Tip: Learning About HTML5 Local Storage
“In today’s video quick tip, we’re going to build a working, though very basic, to-do list in just a minute or two. Thanks to HTML5’s local storage, we can make advanced browsers “remember” what we type, even after the browser is closed or is refreshed.”
Quick Tip: How to Target IE6, IE7, and IE8 Uniquely with 4 Characters
“Two months ago, I, in a video quick tip, demonstrated how to use the underscore and star hacks to target Internet Explorer 6 and 7 in your stylesheets. In today’s quick tip, we’ll take things one step further, as we introduce a new hack that targets IE8 and below as well. It should be noted that this is not a best practice, and conditional comments should be used instead 98% of the time. With that said, it’s always important to know what you can do – plus it’s fun, right?”
Quick Tip: How to Write a Neat FlipNav Script
“Somehow, I inadvertently started a navigation series over the last few weeks. It’s purely coincidence, mostly spawned by emails and such. This week, we’re going to mimic the neat navigation functionality, found on JohnMayer.com. Simply mouse over one of the navigation items to see the effect. However, we’re going to make it a bit more flexible by removing the need for images. We’ll achieve the effect using only CSS and JavaScript.”
Quick Tip: The Difference Between Live() and Delegate()
“In jQuery 1.3, the team introduced the live() method, which allows us to bind event handlers to elements on the page, as well as any that might be created in the future dynamically. Though not perfect, it definitely proved to be helpful. Most notably, live() bubbles all the way up, and attaches the handler to the document. It also ceases to work well when chaining method calls, unfortunately. Delegate() was introduced in version 1.4, which almost does the same thing, but more efficiently.
“We’ll examine the specific differences between the two methods in today’s video quick tip. Thanks to the FireQuery Firebug extension, we’ll have the tools to more easily understand how each method functions.”
Quick Tip: My Favorite New IDE: WebStorm
“Over the weekend, Elijah Manor tweeted about a new IDE, called WebStorm, that is currently being offered as a public preview, from JetBrains. After spending a few hours with it, I’m extremely impressed! In this video quick tip, I thought I’d show you some of my favorite features that you, frankly, just don’t see much in other code editors.”
Quick Tip: Learning jQuery 1.4’s $.proxy | Nettuts+
“One of my favorite new features in jQuery 1.4 is the new $.proxy method. It allows us the ability to force a particular context when calling a method. In JavaScript, there can be times when it’s difficult to hold on to the this keyword. For example, when it’s bound to some event handler, this now refers to the target of the handler, rather than your desired object.”
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Quick Tip: Private Variables in JavaScript | Nettuts+
“Because of JavaScript’s dependence upon globals, it might be easy to forget that creating private variables can be accomplished quite simply, thanks to closures. In just a few minutes, I’ll demonstrate two common techniques which allow for private variables and methods in your projects.”
Quick Tip: Easy Sequential Animations in jQuery | Nettuts+
Another great Quick Tip from Nettuts:
“In this video quick tip, I’ll demonstrate an easy way to allow for sequential animations of an infinite number of elements. I originally learned this technique from Dave Methvin, but don’t think that many people are aware of this neat little trick.”
