Simple CSS footer menu

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Password un-masking: Show passwords in clear text

Windows has a nice option labeled Show characters right below password input fields:

“Show characters” checkbox under a password field in Windows

Useit.com recommends it: It’s time to show most passwords in clear text as users type them. So without further ado, here’s what it looks like on the web: unmasking the password field This is the HTML code from the example:

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inFrame: Open Links in Iframes with jQuery

Say I had some CSS or JavaScript techniques/effects I wanted to show in a blog post. Obviously it would have been uncomfortable for me to actually include the thing in the post (CSS needs to be in the head, JavaScript may conflict with other JavaScript, etc), so the best option would have been to just link to the file demonstrating the effect. Using inFrame the reader doesn’t have to go away from the blog post to view demo files… just add a class of inframe to each of these links. In the second Official jQuery Podcast Ralph Whitbeck, Elijah Manor and their guest Richard D. Worth go through what inFrame is and when/why it’s useful:

The JavaScript

Click “Result” below for a demo.

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Reasons not to use flash

Why shouldn’t you use flash for your website? Can there be anything wrong with a website that “enhances” the user experience by flying/zooming/swirling/flipping in like a .PPS document? Well, besides the lack of SEO, low usability (for example: back button not working, “find on this page” not working, the “make text bigger/smaller” button not working … Read more