Last June, we released our hideShowPassword plugin for improving the experience of password-entry (particularly on mobile devices). As of this writing, it’s our most-starred and most-forked project on GitHub. We’ve released a handful of… More
In July we released SimpleSlideView, a jQuery and Zepto plugin for simple, responsive sliding views (here’s a demo). In the last few months, I’ve noticed an uptick in developers emailing to ask a variation of this question:… More
Sliding views (incoming views that “push” old ones off-screen) have become so commonplace in mobile design we tend to take them for granted. They’re useful because they allow content to be broken into bite-sized chunks while maintaining hierarchy through the… More
On a recent responsive design project, we wanted an off-canvas menu for narrow viewports. We tried some of the off-canvas menu libraries out there. But, being very particular about design and performance, we ended up writing our own. Our… More
It’s easy to take the “masking” of passwords (replacing characters with ••••) for granted. As Luke Wroblewski documented last November, this practice increases login failures while providing little-to-no security benefit. Here’s the alternative Luke and his team built into… More
Recently, Cloud Four dev Matt Gifford built a slick, responsive off-canvas navigation enhancement for a project (we’ll be releasing the core code shortly, so keep an eye out for Matt’s post about that!). The project followed the off-canvas menu… More
WordPress 2.8 introduced some constants and bits and bots that nominally make certain kinds of compression of JavaScript and CSS possible. This post looks at JavaScript compression and explains what is possible, and what is very, very hard. In a… More
Warning: Technical WordPress post ahead! Overview: Really Getting JavaScript Into the Footer Quoth the WordPress Version 2.8 feature list: – Improvements to the script loader: allows plugins to queue scripts for the front end head and footer, adds hooks… More
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