2014 Review: Day 7

As 2014 winds down, we’ll take an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time.  Christopher Keefer is back, showing a useful technique for selectively hiding option values from inside of select...
Hidden Options: A Workaround

Hidden Options: A Workaround

Here’s the situation: You’ve got a select. Maybe a whole bunch of selects, with a ton of options each (metric ton – let’s keep our imaginary hyperbolic units straight here); and these are meant to be complex interactive elements, with options...
Semantic HTML

Semantic HTML

The above diagram shows two ways to place a grid on an HTML page. The <TABLE> version on the left is the old school way of managing layout. The web was positively littered with such code before widespread use of CSS (and browser manufacturer adoption of...
Meteor: Introduction and Example app

Meteor: Introduction and Example app

I’ve just discovered Meteor and I’m currently in the honeymoon phase of this relationship. I realize that it’s still early in development but it’s one of the first truly inspiring full-stack web development platforms I’ve seen in a long time. Built on node.js, it...