Javascript related article and solutions
A recap of my participation in the Hack.Developers Italia 2017 hackathon with the SPID smart button project: code style, linting, FOUC prevention, Autoprefixer, Jasmine unit testing, and Istanbul code coverage for a PA-ready JavaScript widget.
Since Chrome 56, the browser natively handles above-the-fold content changes by adjusting the scroll position on its own. Learn how to detect this behaviour and adapt your JavaScript accordingly.
If you run your own payment page, you probably know by now that the MasterCard 2-series BIN expansion is coming, and having some test cards to run against validators is always useful to check that your front-end update is going well—but where do you get them? There are many websites that provide generators that produce … Continue reading Luhn-valid credit card number generator for arbitrary BIN
Developer consoles expose $ like jQuery, but it is not the same API at runtime. How empty selectors and Chrome’s console behaviour can mislead you while debugging.
Chrome’s debugger hides closure variables from upper scopes as a V8 memory optimization at runtime — it’s not a bug in your code, the debugger is trolling you.
Cleaning YOURLS spam when the stock antispam fights WordPress: manual IP blacklist, console JavaScript to batch-copy IPs and mass-delete spam rows in the admin UI.
Eight practical pitfalls when adapting a WebKit-first mobile site to Windows Phone 8 / Internet Explorer: CSS viewport, resize quirks, tap highlight, pointer events, CSS masks, icon fonts, and remote debugging.
A vintage tribute to Windows XP: an HTML5 webapp that revives the desktop UI with icons, windows and start menu, powered by your Chrome bookmarks export. Built with Backbone.js and CSS tables.
When developing a web form, either for texting, buying or payment tasks we almost always have to manage a confirmation page that comes after the successful submit of the form data. If the page we have to manage is being built from scratch we have the opportunity to work on the html/css structure in a … Continue reading Random latin string generator for faster form filling
The CSS orientation media query checks window dimensions, not the accelerometer. Discover the unexpected behavior on Android Multi Window devices and the clean JavaScript fix using data attributes.
