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Convert Adobe Flash FLA files into HTML

With Adobe Flash not being natively supported by Apple iOS, there have been some attempts from programmers to convert Flash files to HTML, such as SmokeScreen and Gordon; which will help developers easily port existing Flash content to iOS devices (iPad, iPhone). Not to be left behind on its own turf, Adobe has come up [...]

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Tags: flash, Wallaby

HTML 5 logo announced

In: html

Now that people have slowly started implementing HTML 5 features in their sites they would like the world to know the same. W3C have released a set of logos you can stick on your site and announce the world of your HTML 5 accomplishments. Besides the primary logo it also include logos for other main [...]

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Tags: html5

Introducing HTML5 Web Workers

In: html|javascript

One of the interesting and useful additions to the HTML5 standards is the support for Web Workers. Web Workers will help you design more responsive web applications then otherwise possible in the past. What are Web Workers Web Workers are basically a API specification that lets you create background JavaScript threads to process CPU intensive [...]

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Tags: html5

Encode your email links to prevent spam

In: html|security

One of the popular ways to hide your email on a web page from spam bots is to display the email as an image or to use the ‘[at]‘ word instead of the ‘@’ sign. The code given here is yet another way to fight spam. The below function will let you to encode email [...]

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Tags: email, spam

Sign your web forms with your signatures

In: html|javascript|libraries

It is rare that one sees some innovative jQuery plugins. Signature Pad is one of them. It is a jQuery plugin that lets you create your personal signatures using your mouse or a touch device. The signature is drawn on a canvas element and serialized as a JSON array, which can then be stored and [...]

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Tags: forms, signature

Raw vs. cooked PHP $_POST variables

In: data|html|php

A little quirk of PHP $_POST var I encountered while fixing a Salesforce web-to-Lead bug. A WordPress site was using a form to submit user requests to the Salesforce web-service. The form that submitted the data had the following fields along with the others. The problem was with the multi-select field, only the last value [...]

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Tags: post data

Templating with Haml

In: html|tools

It has been a while since I’ve used a template engine during development, the last one I used was Smarty. Now there are a plethora of template systems, but most are a rehash of Smarty. Readers may beg to differ, but Smarty gets the work done, which is all that matters. The one that I [...]

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Tags: templates

HTML 5: Learning the new standard

In: html

With HTML5 quickly making inroads in the web world, information relating to the workings of the same are on the increase. One resource I find quite useful and thorough is the one by Google – html5rocks. Filled with various tutorials and a playground to work with HTML5 code, the site makes a quite useful destination [...]

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Tags: html5

The myth of Tableless design

In: html

HTML tables have received a lot of unnecessary bad press over the years. The problem lies in the fact that tables were never intended as a layout tool. So during the initial years of web design when people started using tables to format their web pages – adding 1 pixel spacers, padding cells to align [...]