February 11, 2013
Make External Links Open In New Windows
Discover how to use jQuery to differentiate between internal and external links and open external links in their own windows. I also show how also adding a class allows you to invoke some simple CSS to display a text hint after the link using the ::after pseudo-element, and any other stylings you might want to add to the links that point at pages on other sites. Read Article
December 28, 2012
Vendor Specific Prefixes
A tedious part of CSS coding is adding Vendor Specific Prefixes (VSPs), which enable CSS features specific to a particular browser engine. VSPs were introduced to speed the development and adoption of CSS3. Not everyone likes VSPs and I have added some links at the end of this post where you can read about the concerns they raise. However, you have to use VSPs if you want to take advantage of some of the newest CSS3 features. In this article, I show which CSS3 properties currently require VSPs and provide links to some third-party scripts that add VSPs automatically so you don't have to. Read Article
