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I’ll make this short and quick. I’ve been searching the web for a Javascript sleep function that works and came across this. It was presented as a class but what I needed was just a function so I rewrote the code a bit. Here’s the end result of my Javascript sleep function which I named, well, jsleep. Read the rest of this entry »
Web designers out there! Have you ever wanted to have rounded corners on the web pages you design but without the use of ugly GIFs or IE-troublesome PNGs? I’ve got good news for you and it’s called jQuery Corners. Have a look at the screenshot below:
PNG images are more often better than GIF when it comes to rendering images with transparency mainly because GIF can only support 256 colors while PNG can support 32-bit colors. Here’s a graphical comparison between the two.
As promised, here’s a sample implementation of the Google Translate API.
If you need to translate your website from one language to another then I have some good news for you. Google Translate has released a JavaScript based API that’s both easy to use and implement. It can handle 13 different languages and as much as 29 language pairs.
Form input validation is sometimes an annoying part in web development but it’s something that we web developers can’t avoid. In order to make sure that the data being entered by our users are valid, we simply have to validate. Another good use of validation is to provide feedback to the user on whether what they are typing is acceptable or not.
Ever wondered what AJAX is? AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is not a programming language in itself but rather a combination of different web development techniques. Furthermore, AJAX technology is not new though it has only been popularized recently especially by Google (Google Maps, GMail, Google Calendar, etc.)
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