A List Apart: Articles: Accent Folding for Auto-Complete
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A List Apart: Articles: Prefix or Posthack
So the next time you find yourself grumbling about declaring the same thing four times, once for each browser, remember that the pain is temporary. It’s a little like a vaccine—the shot hurts now, true, but it’s really not that bad in comparison t...
A List Apart: Articles: Unwebbable
An example of the conundrum of transferring print documents to the web, one that has become legendary in some circles, is the film screenplay.
MySQL: For each group, retrieve a comma-separated list of values in a given column
The technique described in this card has an important caveat: The result of GROUP_CONCAT
is truncated to the maximum length that is given by the group_concat_max_len
system variable, which has a default value of 1024. **This will cause hor...
A community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them
This repository is a community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them. The goal is that if you're building a website using flexbox and something isn't working as you'd expect, you can find the solution here.
As...
Guide to localizing a Rails application
Localizing a non-trivial application can be a huge undertaking. This card will give you an overview over the many components that are affected.
When you are asked to give an estimate for the effort involved, go through the list below and check wh...
Upgrade guide for moving a Rails app from Webpack 3 to Webpack 4
Webpacker is Rails' way of integrating Webpack, and version 4 has been released just a few days ago, allowing us to use Webpack 4.
I successfully upgraded an existing real-world Webpack 3 application. Below are notes on everything that I encounte...
How to disable auto-complete on login forms
Disabling auto-complete in login forms is probably a bad idea, since it encourages weak passwords.
If you are still forced to implement this (maybe due to legal or policy requirements), this is how:
**Prevent browsers from saving the password i...
A collection of useful design resources for developers
This collection contains some useful design resources for developers. Many of them were mentioned in the Refactoring UI tutorials.
Tutorials
- Refactoring UI Videos
- [Refactori...
Use a special version of Chrome for selenium (and another for your everyday work)
Sometimes you need a special version of chrome because it has some features you need for testing, like in this card. You do not need to use ...