How to speedrun Dropbox’s Dropquest 2012 2 days ago
Are you a Dropbox user? By completing this year’s Dropquest, you can get 1 GB of extra Dropbox storage space, for free. Here’s how to do that as fast as possible.
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Unquoted font family names in CSS last month
Are the quotes in font-family: 'Comic Sans MS' required, or not? If you thought the answer was yes, you may want to read on.
Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript 2 months ago
Fun fact: var foo = { H?????????????E?????????????C???????????O?????????????????M???????????????????????????????????????H?????: 42 }; is valid JavaScript. It may not be immediately obvious, but the real surprise here is that the Cthulhu-esque property name is not surrounded by quotes. Intrigued …
Valid JavaScript variable names 2 months ago
Did you know var ? = Math.PI; is syntactically valid JavaScript? I thought this was pretty cool, so I decided to look into which Unicode glyphs are allowed in JavaScript variable names, or identifiers as the ECMAScript specification calls them.
JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16? 3 months ago
Does JavaScript use UCS-2 or UTF-16 encoding? Since I couldn’t find a definitive answer to this question anywhere, I decided to look into it. The answer depends on what you’re referring to: the JavaScript engine, or JavaScript at the language level.
JavaScript character escapes 4 months ago
Having recently written about character references in HTML, I figured it would be interesting to look into JavaScript character escapes as well.
The smallest possible valid (X)HTML documents 5 months ago
I thought it would be fun to document the smallest possible valid HTML documents for each version. So here goes :)
Ambiguous ampersands 5 months ago
In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what happens if there’s an unencoded ampersand that’s not part of a character reference in your HTML code. Is it valid? Is it invalid? And what do “ambiguous ampersands” have to do with all this?
JavaScript `foo.prototype.bar` notation 7 months ago
As a follow-up to the post documenting a few popular HTML element + attribute notations, here’s a similar one about JavaScript.
HTML element + attribute notation 7 months ago
Recently, a popular new addition was made to the HTML spec: anchors may now have a download attribute. That’s not what this post is about though — instead, I’d like to go over some of the different notations people used to refer to this new element + attribute combo in tweets and blog posts.
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