Rule number one when it comes to preventing spam: Don’t put a your email address in a mailto: link. To fight the evil Legion of Spammers, web designers and programmers have come up with some creative solutions. Let’s take a quick look at the more common workarounds and the drawbacks (minor as they may be). [...]

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Today’s tutorial is a quickie. I want to tackle something easy early on in the “15 Days” so that someone new to javascript can sink their teeth into a real world example without getting bogged down in code. The fact that I find myself desperately short on time today with deadlines looming certainly sealed the [...]

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I’ve prepared a step by step demonstration to take someone else’s well written javascript and reduce it down to 5 lines or less. At the same time you’ll see how I make it a little more flexible and useful. Take a look at “Stripe your tables the OO way” by Matthew Pennell. His code is [...]

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Window.onload() is a workhorse of traditional javascript code. It’s been used by coders for years to kick start the client side magic as soon as everything on the page loads up. But sometimes waiting for a page to load just isn’t quick enough. A few large image files will quickly reveal that window.onload() can be [...]

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jQuery is an amazing javascript library that makes it easy to create wonderful web effects in just a few lines of code. As the website says, it makes javascript fun.

If you’re thinking… “Boy, I need another javascript library like I need another hole in my head” then join the club. That’s exactly what I thought when I first came across it.

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